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Old 02-15-2008, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Corey View Post
With any satellite Internet service, you're going to get very long ping/latency times, compared to a terrestrial service such as DSL, cable, or fiber optic lines. <snip> A more realistic ping would probably be in the 600-700ms range. <snip>
Sadly, satellite internet services such as WildBlue, typically implement DAMA (Demand Assigned Multiple Access) which results in ping times of 1100-1200ms when there is no channel contention issues (yes, it gets even worse). VOIP, VPN and twitch gaming are just not worth it and even https sites are noticeably slower.

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