Good salesmanship at least. Can't blame a guy for trying. I recently attempted the in flight internet deal and found ~800 ms average ping times to Google DNS. I had 7 Mbps DL and .3 Mbps UL. The impact to browsing was annoying, enough that I got my email loaded and stopped using the connection.
Hard to believe he is using the in flight services as an example supporting his claim. I'd think it is the perfect counter example. -Joey > On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Richard Scheffenegger <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Had to chuckle while reading this... :) >> >> “There is a common misperception that latency is a dominant technical >> measure of performance for broadband,” Dankberg said. >> >> >> - See more at: >> http://spacenews.com/viasats-dankberg-unfazed-by-mega-constellation-hoopla/#sthash.qbWfmpVN.dpuf > > Well, they claim to be at least routing stuff down from geosync. > > I don't know what gogo-in-flight is using, but presently, GoGo seems > to be routing packets through one of the Mars orbiters as the GoGo > ping times jg measured were in the 12 minute range. So whatever viasat > is using is hopefully better than that... > > ... until the stuff in LEO arrives. > >> Richard > > > > -- > Dave Täht > > http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Upcoming_Talks > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
