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corford on Jan 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

With LEO satellite internet, would download/upload speeds be symmetric (like SDSL) or would uploading be much slower (like ADSL)?

rhino369 on Jan 21, 2015 [–]

You could do it either way, but probably asymmetric due to usage patterns.

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