The following is a series of pings to Yahoo! at about 2235EDT. This is about
average for me, with slightly worse times during peak business hours but
usually a bit better than this at this time of the night. I have the lowest end
Direcway package, the SO-HO, that uses a .74 meter dish and costs $60/month
after equipment purchase and installation. It has been satisfactory for my
purposes, but I have minimal business use, and eSnipe takes care of my eBay
last second bidding for me... ;)
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Pinging 68.142.226.41 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 68.142.226.41: bytes=32 time=871ms TTL=49
Reply from 68.142.226.41: bytes=32 time=878ms TTL=49
Reply from 68.142.226.41: bytes=32 time=850ms TTL=49
Reply from 68.142.226.41: bytes=32 time=849ms TTL=49
Ping statistics for 68.142.226.41:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 849ms, Maximum = 878ms, Average = 862ms
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The folks with the higher end Direcway packages get better (and more
consistent) pings, but this is a shared resource and your actual pings, as well
as packet losses, are pretty much the luck of the draw, depending on
transponder usage AT THE EXACT TIME YOU RUN THE PING.
The relatively few Wildblue users are reporting very consistent pings down
around 500ms or better, but as several of us have been pointing out on the BBR
forum, WB's system loading is ridiculously light right now. They still only
have a few thousand systems online, and until that is increased by a few orders
of magnitude, it is all just theory. WB IS using spot beam technology and is
operating Ka band rather than Ku, but while everything appears to be coming up
roses for now, I reserve judgment until their network is more fully loaded.
As stated in a previous message, for MY type of usage, Direcway has been a
quantum leap forward over the usual terrible dialup speeds I could get (47,000
of loaded copper wire between me and the CO!) Anyone who cannot handle the
latency is probably better off on dial up, but that is up to the individual.
After 30+ years in the US Navy I have little interest in make-believe
shoot-'em-ups so that isn't a consideration, and I have already had my day in
the sun with the stock market...
As always with new technology, do your research, and make the most educated
decision you can. It has worked out VERY well for me, but my expectations were
a lot more realistic than some of the game players, bit torrent users, and
movie down loaders that failed to look before they leaped.
Later...
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Bill Hatcher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
Of Bernie Cosell
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 22:13
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WINHOME] Satellite Internet
On 13 Aug 2005 at 21:51, Wayne Johnson wrote:
> The latency is about the same as a Dialup connection
How can that be? A satellite link has to have *at*least* one second
latency [if there are _no_ other delays at all in the connection, and I'm
told by colleagues with satellite links that 2-3 seconds is more the
norm]]. Meanwhile I'm running ~200ms RTTs for most of the time on my
dialup...
One of the reasons I haven't switched to a satellite link [yet] is
because most of my Internet use can't tolerate those kinds of delays...
if one of the satellte providers has figured out a way to cut down the
latency, I'll be *thrilled* to hear about it!!!
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