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Re: MIDI Still?



> The speed of light is about 186,282 miles per second,
> so it takes at absolute minimum about 50ms to go from
> New York to LA.
>
> If there's a satellite, there's perhaps a few milliseconds
> more time spent switching.

Hmm, remember it's about 2500 miles from LA to NYC while com. sats. are in
geo-sync orbits at 22,000 mile altitude.  So via satellite you have to add
at least 44,000 miles.  Satellite links have high latency.

Dennis Leas
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dennis@mdbs.com