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Looking for suggestions | by whytwolf | 2002-07-22 07:01:08 |
| The only problem with satellite is ... |
by chuckab |
2002-07-22 16:25:07 |
... lag. Because the satellite is in geo-synchronous orbit, there is about a 46,000 mile (75,000km) round trip for the signal. This is fine for data transfers like web page requests and loads. Once a transfer gets going, it moves along at a pretty good pace. But if you want to do any on-line gaming, you'd be lucky if any server operator would let you on. I'm talking about ping times in excess of 1000ms. I was helping my son set up a satellite link for a remote site where he works and I did the pings myself - 1000ms was on the low side with frequent times in the 2000ms range. As a matter of fact I had to tell ping to wait longer than standard so I could see the replies.
As for accounts that let you serve, they are expensive. My son had a cable modem business account that was choaked at 128K both ways and he was spending quite a bit for it. He recently switched his cable modem service, telephone service and cable tv service to Cox and he is paying considerably less per month for the package than he was for the other parts separately - and he's getting more channels for his TV and 1.5Mb/s down to boot! */me turns green with evnvy* |
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high latency | by whytwolf | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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