iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to Island Jeff
Re: Dial-up is better, faster... Hmm, I believe the Speedtest.net test uses a packet stream for the test, whereas testmy.net uses a file. Something like that.
Anyhow, I read awhile back in some PDF that sat modems tend to tamper with TCP protocols (spoofing of something or other) and thus, while real-world results are better, stricter tests get abosolutely botched.
So basically satellite's only advantage over dialup is in dealing with large file transfers. Realtime applications just don't work right, which is fair enough when you look at latency and such.
Guess I'll test that WB connection again using some file-based speed testers. The packet-based ones tell me what I already know: this thing ain't gonna do VoIP. Thanks for pointing that discrepancy out. |
