kjpwv
join:2006-10-24
Fairmont, WV | reply to Emiya
Re: In defense of the service And that is where it should stay. Its fine running CC numbers, I see rural places with it for that purpose all the time. For residential, it is beyond terrible for anything beyond the most basic web browsing and e-mail. Even making transactions can be a pain as SSL tends to at least double the ping. Glad I escaped to 3g a year ago. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Emiya:Oh, and that speed of light issue. We are trying to work around that with things like TCP packet spoofing. If I'm playing a game online how is that going to help? If I push the button to fire a weapon it's still going to take over 1/2 second to respond. Which is way too long. You can't "spoof" me pressing X for FIRE since you have no clue what I want to do.
Only way to fix latency with satellites is to use low earth orbit ones which means LOTS of satellites which would be VERY expensive to launch and even more expensive to maintain and control.
said by kjpwv: Glad I escaped to 3g a year ago. Not any faster and even worse caps. Worse yet $50 per GB overages. At least with satellite all they do is throttle down your speed. |
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kjpwv
join:2006-10-24
Fairmont, WV
2 edits | the speed is about the same (unless you count sat's daytime throttle), but 150ms as opposed to 1000+ makes it way better for about everything. And the FAP was less slow you down and more choke you to death til you give up trying to use it.
I have no cap and its 20 bucks less than I ever paid for sat.
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