Hank
Silver Member
Re: I\'m wireless
<font color="brown"> Hank, I'm not exactly sure about what latency even is but have an idea it's a delay </font>
A good analogy is when, on network news programs, they cut to the reporter in Iraq. The anchor hands it off to the remote reporter, and you see this person stand there looking dumb for about 2 seconds before s/he replies. That's latency, the time it takes for the signal to travel up to the satellite and back down to the reporter.
Once the reporter starts talking, it's a steady, one-way stream. What you don't notice then is that the entire stream is delayed two seconds, because it is steady and you have no reference point to mark the delay.
You don't see so many two way conversations on the news over a satellite link, because there is that two second delay each time it's handed back and forth.
On a PC with satellite, if you're primarily surfing the web, it's like the reporter talking from Iraq....a delay to get the stream going, but then it's gangbusters. But try to run an app that wants to talk two way (like telnet, or a VPN), and the delay each time it goes back and forth is murder, if it even works at all.
<font color="brown"> Hank, I'm not exactly sure about what latency even is but have an idea it's a delay </font>
A good analogy is when, on network news programs, they cut to the reporter in Iraq. The anchor hands it off to the remote reporter, and you see this person stand there looking dumb for about 2 seconds before s/he replies. That's latency, the time it takes for the signal to travel up to the satellite and back down to the reporter.
Once the reporter starts talking, it's a steady, one-way stream. What you don't notice then is that the entire stream is delayed two seconds, because it is steady and you have no reference point to mark the delay.
You don't see so many two way conversations on the news over a satellite link, because there is that two second delay each time it's handed back and forth.
On a PC with satellite, if you're primarily surfing the web, it's like the reporter talking from Iraq....a delay to get the stream going, but then it's gangbusters. But try to run an app that wants to talk two way (like telnet, or a VPN), and the delay each time it goes back and forth is murder, if it even works at all.
