[Cialug] Satellite ISPs

[david l goodrich]

> On 4/6/2007 1:33 PM, david l goodrich wrote:
>> Anyway.  The latency was terrible, it was barely enough to run
>> the factory at an acceptable pace.  We were within tolerances,
>> but definitely at the slow end of the scale.  The workers
>> complained that network lookups for the barcodes (centrally
>> stored at corporate HQ) was 2-3 times slower than usual.
>
> I just wanted to second that about the latency.  Although I don't have
> satellite Internet I could compare the latency.  I streamed live audio
> from a radio station over the Internet and simultaneously from the
> satellite.  Even though the Internet stream came from Europe it was a
> couple seconds faster than the broadcast via satellite.  The distance
> between earth and the satellite is just to enormous to be competitive.

This reminds me that in a different previous lifetime the rule of thumb
for detecting a satellite hop in a traceroute was a jump of (at a minimum)
600 milliseconds.

yuck.
  --david