Yes, satellite has very high latency. 500ms would be very good, but I don't think anyone on satellite gets that. On Wildblue it used to be around 600-700 ms average but then last November they did some kind of un-upgrade to cram more users on, and latency increased severely. I think it had something to do with prioritizing certain types of traffic so it made everything that wasn't plain vanilla web browsing turn to crap. That is part of the reason I switched. On HughesNet now I get 700-800 ms on average.
Wildblue & HughesNet both use a proxy, but in different ways. On WB I had to go into my browser settings and set it, but you could use it without the proxy. I never noticed a difference with it on or off. On HN, there are no settings to do in your browser--you apparently go through the proxy at the NOC. Which means, if there is a problem at the NOC, your connection stops working. I've streamed music from Pandora over satellite internet and it works fine, but all these satellite ISPs have bandwidth caps, so you have to be careful to watch your usage. RandyBrand: I don't think it's interference because it was happening late at night when I was the only one home. And my neighbors are too far away for it to be their phones--plus I don't think they talk on the phone at 2AM. Yesterday I changed network drives and it started happening again. But SlimServer was scanning at the same time, so it might have been due to that. I have another problem related to the drive swap, but I will start a new thread about it. -- MeSue Sue PS: I once wanted a Squeezebox boombox, but I don't anymore. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32506 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
