Verizon offering 3Mbps

[Brian Riley (maillist)]

The  latency will kill you for fast twitch gaming. No question about it.

All in all DSL or cable is a better deal. Satellite is really for us guys
who live where the cable/phone guys don't want to spend the money on the
infrastructure and the local towns don''t have the balls to stand up to them
and say 'wire the whole town or wire nothing!'

Cheers ... BBR



On 9/9/04 11:21 AM, "Kenneth E. Lussier" <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:37 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> In a message dated: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:01:27 EDT
>> "Brian Riley (maillist)" said:
>> 
>>> My download speeds are on the order of cable speeds and upload is slower but
>>> At least as good as most DSL.
>> 
>> What's the latency like on that?  I'm assuming with a 48K mile
>> round-trip minimum for every packet, latency must be rather high?
> 
> Latency has always been an issue with satellite service. Usually, they
> have a high latency, and one of the most notable side effects is the
> inability to use a VPN over satellite (just to tie this to another
> current thread). Another problem with some satellite ISPs is that they
> run NAT/PAT at the network head which interferes with VPNs, online
> gaming, etc.
> 
> FWIW,
> Kenny