For the frequent commenters about people not understanding latency, or the differences in technical terms around bandwidth, LEO/GEO, etc, imagine this: You may not be an economics or fiat currency expert, but given a choice of US dollars or Mexican Pesos, which would you pick? How do you know this? Do you work for the government or post frequently on the currency version of hacker news? No. You learn from people around you pretty quickly. If you're in a small town, you have limited options for bandwidth. There's Hughes Net (Satellite crap (high latency), but works if the only option) there's a new small Cable provider, there's DSL (phone company), etc. People chat, they gossip, they figure out how to get the best connection, in some ways embodying things straight out of movies like Hackers/The Matrix, even though they may own the local feed store. It's interesting to see. Don't underestimate people.