RE: Rural Outsourcing

22 miles? Geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,500 miles, IIRC. 22 miles =
116,160 feet. 

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 

 

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From: midrange-l-bounces+flapeyre=stei.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+flapeyre=stei.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Douglas Handy
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Rural Outsourcing

Shannon,

The older satellite modems (4xxxx and DW6000) had terrible latency problems.
> The new one (minus the cheapo router...) doesn't.


So what kind of latency do you see?  I used the former 1-way version where I
live before cable and DSL became available here, partly because I could keep
the high latency to only the receiving side of the equation.  But regardless
of new modem improvements, unless they have a series of Low Earth Orbiting
satellites now, it would seem hard to significantly reduce the latency
inherent in traveling up and back down from satellites 22 miles in the air.

As I recall, my latencies were around 700ms.  What kind of ping times do you
see?

I also had severe issues with rain fade during storms.  Has that improved?

I'll have to admit I don't miss my satellite service.  I now get a 7Mbps
down/768k up cable connection for $85/mth, plus a 6Mbps down/512k up DSL
with static IP for $47/mth, and my ping times to the ISPs are around 25ms.
I have both services to maximize availability since they are different ISPs
coming in over different wires.  I haven't had a case yet where both had
outages at the same time.

Doug
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