Satellite Internet

[Dazed_75]

You do understand that the satellite is 22,500 miles up.  Even if it were
directly above you, that means the signal round is to the satellite, back to
the ISP somewhere on earth, back to the satellite and back down to you the
round trip is a minimum of 90,000 miles.  At the speed of light, that is
about a half second.  Its really much further for any internet request so
latency always must be more than that.

In fact, I really wonder where dns resolution is done.  Clearly a user with
their own dns server or caching would be imperative to avoid latency being
well over one second minimum to get name resolution plus getting data from a
web site.

it would be interesting for someone using a satellite service to do
something like:

dig yahoo.com | grep -i time
dig yahoo.com | grep -i time
dig cnn.com | grep -i time
dig ubuntu.com | grep -i time
dig cnn.com | grep -i time
dig ubuntu.com | grep -i time

and post the results

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:

> Agree. Everything I tried had unbearable latency.
>
> On 9/12/11, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had HughesNet at my last place.  Worked great, but high latency.   So I
> > agree with the comment about bad for Skype, and would add online gaming.
> > But had no trouble with dropbox.
> >
> > Kevin
> > On Sep 12, 2011 6:20 AM, "Lyle Tuttle" <l.tuttle at cox.net> wrote:
> >> At 04:41 PM 9/11/2011, keith smith wrote:
> >>>I bumped into Satellite Internet today and found it has improved
> >>>vastly. I'm thinking this opens up faster internet access to those
> >>>rural areas where there is not DSL or cable Internet access. I work
> >>>from my home so I was very careful to ensure I would have access to
> >>>cable or DSL. Now I see living and working more rural might be an
> option.
> >>>
> >>>Anyone using Satellite Internet? If so what is your experience?
> >>
> >> My sister-in-law uses it as she lives on top of a mountain in
> >> Colorado.......ok for email, but not good for Dropbox xfers, Skype -
> >> voice or voice w/video. Too much delay drops connection.........
> >>
> >> Which satellite service did you check? I'm not sure what hers is, will
> > check.
> >>
> >> lyle tuttle
> >>
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