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i heard of a sat system that will give me 1Mps d/load, 128k upload for 45 a month. the bad news...1000 to buy the dish, box, installation cost.
seems like there's no other way in these devil-forsaken boonies.
will that b/width support voip? The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
I don't know - have no experience of this stuff, except for briefly investigating a system for uploading video rushes from a foreign location where confiscation of material was a possibility. The cameras were cheap and disposable, but the loss of shot material would have been a catastrophe. You can't be me, I'm taken
Satellite Service Battles Lag
The problem is latency: the time it takes an information request traveling at the speed of light to go from your computer to the satellite, be retransmitted to the satellite provider's operations center, and for the response to be uploaded to the satellite and retransmitted to your computer. All systems have a certain amount of latency, of course, but terrestrial signals transmitted by wire or microwave almost never have to travel more than a couple thousand miles. With satellites used for U.S. internet service stationed approximately 23,000 miles above the equator, each information/response packet has to make a round trip of about 92,000 miles, producing a noticeable lag -- about 0.25 seconds -- in applications that require near-instantaneous actions.
The problem is latency: the time it takes an information request traveling at the speed of light to go from your computer to the satellite, be retransmitted to the satellite provider's operations center, and for the response to be uploaded to the satellite and retransmitted to your computer.
All systems have a certain amount of latency, of course, but terrestrial signals transmitted by wire or microwave almost never have to travel more than a couple thousand miles.
With satellites used for U.S. internet service stationed approximately 23,000 miles above the equator, each information/response packet has to make a round trip of about 92,000 miles, producing a noticeable lag -- about 0.25 seconds -- in applications that require near-instantaneous actions.
those quater second second gaps (if everything is working properly) are enough to be noticeable, and throw off mental cues in conversation so that speach appears fumbled, and people dont seem to be replying, the hand off signals that people use in conversation break down with these gaps thrown in, and conversational cues have to be handled conciously. which destroys some of the meaning transfered by conversation. Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
Not fatal, but it would be noticeable.
people calling me on my landline (soon to be jettisoned, yay!) through skype has been 90% of the time complete torture, between stunning levels of background noise, ruinous distortion and vocoder effect on the tin-robot voice, and signal ebb.
nightmare...
i guess i will avail myself of a skype phone, and when the engineer comes to install/test the system, i'll try out skype.
even at 100 a month including 20% VAT, it may be cheaper than what i pay telecom, if i factor in that i make a lot less calls than i'd like to, to keep the bills down.
what else shall i try out when the engineer's here? youtube for sure, and one of those websites that tells you how much actual bandwidth is happening.
any particular ones anyone can recc?
i just heard on 'click online' last night that there is a 50G free storage available from http://www.adrive.com/
woot! The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.