fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to me1212
Re: 1500/256 has 17 GB down cap & 5 GB up cap Yea, but, there will always be exceptions. Your response to TK's post is just the same as "Yea, but if you can get cable or DSL then WB ain't so great."
For people that have no alternative but dialup, and even in some spots dial-up is still essentially 28.8kbps, then WB isn't bad.
Satellite service isn't meant for everyone. It's not even really there to get metro-based customers.. it's there to pick up those out of the reach of more common services. (ie: no other choice, which includes the options you're talking about) |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Just to throw in my 2¢, WB's latency is off the charts compared with anything else I've seen. Even an overloaded WiSP conection. Dialup is downright low-latency in comparison, with pings around 200-250 ms in my experience. |
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Latency is higher and the value plan has an average download speed of 23.7kbps (threshold per 30 days broken down into kbps). This is really nothing great and definitely way overpriced. |
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Emiya
join:2006-03-30
Southington, OH | reply to iansltx
Latency will always be higher on a satellite connection. It's a 23,000 mile trip each way to the bird so the speed of light is a major limiting factor. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Understood. Just throwing it out there... |
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Like my at&t line only gets 19.2k dialup and no cell service. |
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 tim_kButtons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, KaseyPremium,VIP
join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA
kudos:13 | reply to Emiya
said by Emiya:Latency will always be higher on a satellite connection. It's a 23,000 mile trip each way to the bird so the speed of light is a major limiting factor. However, with WB's traffic shaping, pings double from what they should be. Mine were around 1200-1300 on avg. I once connected to my neighbors Hughs Sat service and pings were around 600. I could defintely see web pages come up faster.
I wonder what kind of traffic shaping tricks they'll use if you do get the 18 Mb plan. Maybe double pings again to 2400  ?
When I had WB, the caps didn't bother me, only once did I get close to 17 Gb. That's certainly better than the cap on many EVDO plans.
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Latency will always be higher on a satellite connection. It's a 23,000 mile trip each way to the bird so the speed of light is a major limiting factor.
Since we saw with our own eyes latency of around 600 to 650 ms being delivered day in and day out for the first year, and now latency is in the 1250 ms range, it seems traffic shaping accounts for more latency than distance right now.
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