My Brother-in-law recently had the 'Two way' Satallite internet at his office.
He experienced very high latency. The connection was fast, never seemed to slow down, but was very latent.
The only time he saw the latency was playing multiplayer video games (QUAKE). The connection was too latent to play.
Yes, when he downloaded files, they came well over 100k/sec.
The latency would also cause a problem with streaming video or audio. Due to the breaks in the connection (way too fast for use to recognize), the video/audio/games would skip very bad.
Since he has changed his office to a cable connection and is fraggin away!
Of course if satellite is all you are able to get in our area, it is great. But if you have another choice (cable / dsl) I would recommend that.
....PS.... also, the 'sat modem' they gave him only had a USB port to connect to.... so he was not able to use a router to share the connection to his other computers. So he had to do Internet Connection Sharing which was a nightmare. If you do go w/ Sat and have multiple computers, make sure you get a network (RJ45) connection on the 'sat modem' unit so that it can be connected to a router.
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My Brother-in-law recently had the 'Two way' Satallite internet at his office.
....PS.... also, the 'sat modem' they gave him only had a USB port to connect to.... so he was not able to use a router to share the connection to his other computers. So he had to do Internet Connection Sharing which was a nightmare. If you do go w/ Sat and have multiple computers, make sure you get a network (RJ45) connection on the 'sat modem' unit so that it can be connected to a router.
He experienced very high latency. The connection was fast, never seemed to slow down, but was very latent.
The only time he saw the latency was playing multiplayer video games (QUAKE). The connection was too latent to play.
Yes, when he downloaded files, they came well over 100k/sec.
The latency would also cause a problem with streaming video or audio. Due to the breaks in the connection (way too fast for use to recognize), the video/audio/games would skip very bad.
Since he has changed his office to a cable connection and is fraggin away!
Of course if satellite is all you are able to get in our area, it is great. But if you have another choice (cable / dsl) I would recommend that.