said by BF69:said by Sircolby45:said by Phil:Of course there's latency as the signal has to travel to outer space and back again. Their service is definitely not for gaming.
Yes that account for 480ms of the latency. Wildblue's pings rarely ever dip below 1100ms and are usually 1500+. That is not all satellite latency. It is mostly way to aggressive traffic shaping.(Modified version of DAMA)
480ms will never be achieved. There is always going to be some inherent latency in the system that 480ms is only accounting for distance the signal has to travel. So even under idea condition satellite will never get under 550-600ms. Only way to do that is to have satelites in much lower orbits. but then you have to have many more satelites. And then you're making the system more complicated and much easier to fail.
I realize this. 480ms does not account for processing time etc. But the point I was trying to make is that the high latency of satellite is not just the distance the signal has to travel. A lot of it is aggressive traffic shaping.
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