Horrific Latency (Score 1)

I've seen these systems before and their latency is just flat horrific. There is an article in Info World written by Tom Yager in their Test Center describing a system called Tachyon. This system is touted as being a resilient 2MB internet service that is setup completely OS independent. Even this system has a 500msec latency which they describe "limits Tachyon's usefulness for interactive protocols such as HTTP and telnet.