On 4/21/20 2:35 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Interesting.  So basically as Mel said, over-sold network.  :-(

This is pretty typical of consumer VSAT and such.  You can of course get better 
performance...if you're willing to pay for it.  If you find the right 
carrier/re-seller, you can perhaps find one whose "system" (to include ground 
station, terminals, and smarts on the bird) can respect DSCP and flag at least 
your voice traffic appropriately (probably EF) to perhaps lower the jitter and 
make conferencing more palatable.  Finding competent folks at a typical 
consumer provider's helpdesk to talk to about such things is probably the 
limiting factor.  The higher up the foodchain you go towards the folks who 
"own" the spectrum rather than re-sell will perhaps get you more luck on 
something like this though probably also at higher MRC.

Unfortunately, it's just what happens when you spread an already limited 
resource (transponder bandwidth) out over essentially an entire continent or at 
least substantial portions of it.  Imagine if you had a cable provider with a 
single node for an entire, say, US state.
-- 
Brandon Martin

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