| Bill Jonas on Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:20:10 +0100 |
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Tom wrote: > If the two-way service is the same quality as the one-way, it's not > worth it. I had the one-way service for a year. Linux was only > supported through costly third party options. The throughput never > was consistent or fast. The first thing I did when I moved was get > DSL. I've never had satellite myself, but I've heard that latency sucks. I've seen distance calculations that show a minimum of 500ms latency for every request; this is the time it takes for the signal to make two round-trips from the earth to the satellite, so you're down a half-second on every packet just on latency. If the land link is congested, you could easily be up to three-quarters of a second. Note that bandwidth != latency, but high latency doesn't do any good for bandwidth, either... -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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