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Originally Posted by Quagmire
I'm on satellite right now and the biggest issue is the latency. 1000ms up, 1000ms down. I have seen nothing anywhere about latency of their planned service. The WINDs program has been kicking around since around 2005 in forums.
It will be useless for gaming, voip, trading, etc unless they figured out some magical way to trim the latency.
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That's the first think I thought when I read about it. The main problem with satellite connectivity has always been latency, which I believe probably has something to do with needing to be converted into an appropriate microwave signal, and then sent for a few thousand kilometres before then returning a few thousand kilometres to be converted back again... and so on.