Satellite Internet

[Mecha Sonic]

Yeah I guess you're right... I might grab a laptop or something...

[rcdraco]

Satellite is faster, you want to get lots of downloads, bingo, but to explain the latency it's like this.


Dial-Up: ooooooooooooooooooooooo

Bits of information^^^^^

Less data transferred, but low loss.


Satellite: X____X______X_____X_____X

Jiggablobs of info ^ ^ >^<loss

empty signal where spring needs to update faster than you can.

[Peet]

Burst transmission is not the reason for its latency. It's the fact that there are more places that packets have to go in a round trip.

computer > satellite > gateway > internets > gateway > satellite > computer, as opposed to
computer > gateway > internets > gateway > computer