Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
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Re: Unfiltered, unlimited?!?
alright, with a power jack one could waste away that 6hr flight playing WoW!. latency would suck but just to say you have gamed from 35,000ft.....
blocking VOIP is a good thing as people have proven they cant be polite on trains with their cellphones and in a plane you cant just get up and goto another car.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Latency is the issue.
I know connecting to Skype across a throttled VPN, tunnelled SSH throught a squid proxy half way across the country is enough to make it unusable. The throttled connection makes latency spikes too high to be usable.
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DCloutier
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join:2008-04-27
Calgary, AB | What about the server running its own DNS Server? or caching DNS entries? Wouldn't this speed it up? |
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maartena
Stacked.
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd  :alright, with a power jack one could waste away that 6hr flight playing WoW!. latency would suck but just to say you have gamed from 35,000ft..... You would not enjoy it. The satellites for communication are in geo-stationary orbit at 35.000 km (or roughly 20.000 miles) above the earth. The entire return ping would be somewhere around 700 to 800ms.
For website browsing or chatting, such latency doesn't matter. Even for streaming video it is not a problem. It may take a few seconds more for the stream to get started, and you may need a little more buffering, but it'll work.
And quite frankly, this type of internet is meant for that kind of stuff: webbrowsing, e-mail, IM chatting, etc.
And I would really not mind if they block all porn/shady websites. I don't mind the guy next to me reading up on his stocks or chatting to the misstress... but I could really do without people right next to me trying to skype home or watching porn flicks. |
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Toadman
How do you like these Apples
join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH
| said by maartena :said by Kearnstd :alright, with a power jack one could waste away that 6hr flight playing WoW!. latency would suck but just to say you have gamed from 35,000ft..... You would not enjoy it. The satellites for communication are in geo-stationary orbit at 35.000 km (or roughly 20.000 miles) above the earth. The entire return ping would be somewhere around 700 to 800ms. For website browsing or chatting, such latency doesn't matter. Even for streaming video it is not a problem. It may take a few seconds more for the stream to get started, and you may need a little more buffering, but it'll work. And quite frankly, this type of internet is meant for that kind of stuff: webbrowsing, e-mail, IM chatting, etc. And I would really not mind if they block all porn/shady websites. I don't mind the guy next to me reading up on his stocks or chatting to the misstress... but I could really do without people right next to me trying to skype home or watching porn flicks. Aircell uses towers on the ground, not sat communication. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to DCloutier
Who says that they would want to.
Easiest way is to limit the pipe. 512 kbps with high latency should be enough to keep most people from wanting to run VoIP or similar.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to Kearnstd
I don't think they are putting the service on board for gaming.. look at the price, alone, should tell you. Also, look at the flight routes they are targeting. It's more of a service designed for business and casual users to stay connected.
Gaming, and high impact services, maybe in the future, but right now, it's just what every telco and PCS CEO would dream of.. surfing the web, checking email, and chatting. 
Not everything that's rolled out is ready for mainstream and have everything tossed at it. I'm sure many people would LOVE it to be able to handle games.. but, doubt it's anywhere near it for now.. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to fiberguy
It may be... but then again, its American Airline (horrible service is part of their tradition).
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20 | no no.. I mean I posted to the wrong message.. I wasn't critiquing yours.. |
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