The Outernet

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• monNom0

  Bitrate reduces as you get further from a transmitter/receiver. WiMax taps out at 1Mbit/s around 50km. Low Earth Orbit satellites operate around 200-2000km from earth, so I'd imagine that the speed of this "outternet" would be incredibly slow when 7billion people are accessing it.

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