It's not only gamers and users of VoIP who can't tolerate the latency of a geostationary satellite; neither can ordinary web surfers or many other users of TCP. Ask anyone who uses Hughes DirectNet or WildBlue. A modern web page builds in many transactions and is "optimized" for latencies in measured in milliseconds; not half a second as this satellite will have at best. File transfer protocols also depend on interaction altho less so.
Latency can be MORE important than bandwidth in determining the usefulness of an Internet connection.
More at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2008/02/japans-internet.html
The net of this dated article is that geostationary satellite is fine for the Internet except for those pesky users of TCP who will be killed by latency. LoL; TCP isn't going to go away because a few people are using satellite. More at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/10/broadband-pri-2.html
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It's not only gamers and users of VoIP who can't tolerate the latency of a geostationary satellite; neither can ordinary web surfers or many other users of TCP. Ask anyone who uses Hughes DirectNet or WildBlue. A modern web page builds in many transactions and is "optimized" for latencies in measured in milliseconds; not half a second as this satellite will have at best. File transfer protocols also depend on interaction altho less so. Latency can be MORE important than bandwidth in determining the usefulness of an Internet connection. More at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2008/02/japans-internet.html
The net of this dated article is that geostationary satellite is fine for the Internet except for those pesky users of TCP who will be killed by latency. LoL; TCP isn't going to go away because a few people are using satellite. More at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/10/broadband-pri-2.html