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 ·WildBlue
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Re: Satellite Internet said by A Tech:The technology that Wildblue (viasat) is pushing removes one hop over the satellite compared to what is currently in existence in the US. US marines in Japan report that WINDS ( the japanese system) is currently faster than anything we have on the ground in the US. Do a little research and you will find that the technology behind Viasat is an order of magnitude better than existing satellite technology I am not exactly sure what it is you are referring to, but satellite is always going to have high latency and there is nothing that can be done about that. The only way to defeat it is to bring the satellite down to a lower orbit, which is far to costly. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
1 edit | When WB was first deployed, they had latencies of several hundred milliseconds. Not DSL and cable, but tolerable. Then on a day referred to as "Black Friday" by WB early adopters, they changed the polling algorithms, and the latencies went to the 2+ second range you see now. They did this to jam in more subscribers on the cheap.
Most of the latency you see at your folks place is not due to satellite hop, but due to how WB schedules the packets. |
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·WildBlue
| said by PDXPLT:When WB was first deployed, they had latencies of several hundred milliseconds. Not DSL and cable, but tolerable. Then on a day referred to as "Black Friday" by WB early adopters, they changed the polling algorithms, and the latencies went to the 2+ second range you see now. They did this to jam in more subscribers on the cheap. Most of the latency you see at your folks place is not due to satellite hop, but due to how WB schedules the packets. The point I was trying to make though is even before "Black Friday" the latency will still too high. I actually used the service before they incorporated their modified form of DAMA and it was still a terrible alternative to DSL or cable. It is simply not possible for satellite to ever be a good solution for internet. |
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