It seems like everyone is always talking about downstream speed like that is all that matters.. Actually, latency and packet loss are often times more important. I remember when everyone was saying that broadband by sat would take out terristerial networks.. These people didn't understand how far the radio wavs had to go. Latency on Sat connections sucks - bad.. Unless your just doing bonehead http surfing, it really slows things down.
I use Verizon Wireless data connection on my CDMA cell phone and have for a few years now. Yea, it's a measly 14.4 connection. That is not really the bad part.. The latency runs around 500-800ms just to their gateway, and, if your moving packet loss can get really bad if your not right under the cell tower. That can make an ssh session painfully slow. Even if your sitting still, and got tons of signal, the RT latency makes doing a lot of work slow. Most of the latency here has to do with the CDMA system. Have you ever called another digital CDMA phone from another one in the same room.. Notice the delay? It's double there because it has to be encoded/decoded for each phone. It can get annoying on cell to cell calls.
But still, I really appreciate being able to pull over, and log into my servers to check e-mail or fix/change something from the road. So for me, this announcement is nice that they are rolling out faster wireless data networks.. but I'd sure like to know more about the connections made on that network.. TDMA typically has less encoding delay.. so perhaps that is why this is TDMA based??
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It seems like everyone is always talking about downstream speed like that is all that matters.. Actually, latency and packet loss are often times more important. I remember when everyone was saying that broadband by sat would take out terristerial networks.. These people didn't understand how far the radio wavs had to go. Latency on Sat connections sucks - bad.. Unless your just doing bonehead http surfing, it really slows things down.
I use Verizon Wireless data connection on my CDMA cell phone and have for a few years now. Yea, it's a measly 14.4 connection. That is not really the bad part.. The latency runs around 500-800ms just to their gateway, and, if your moving packet loss can get really bad if your not right under the cell tower. That can make an ssh session painfully slow. Even if your sitting still, and got tons of signal, the RT latency makes doing a lot of work slow. Most of the latency here has to do with the CDMA system. Have you ever called another digital CDMA phone from another one in the same room.. Notice the delay? It's double there because it has to be encoded/decoded for each phone. It can get annoying on cell to cell calls.
But still, I really appreciate being able to pull over, and log into my servers to check e-mail or fix/change something from the road. So for me, this announcement is nice that they are rolling out faster wireless data networks.. but I'd sure like to know more about the connections made on that network.. TDMA typically has less encoding delay.. so perhaps that is why this is TDMA based??