hughesnet or satellite internet

[Electro Lunasea]

anyone using Hughesnet? and does it woirk

[Rolig Loon]

Satellite may give you a strong connection, but expect a major ping time because the signal has to travel to orbit and back.  That can mean serious lag, rubber-banding, and possibly unexpected crashing.  Experience may vary from user to user, but I'd select a standard cable or DSL connection instead if I had a choice.

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Electro,

I'm in complete agreement with Rolig. I just pinged SL and get a round trip in 64ms. That's via a typical terrestrial internet link. By going through a satellite, a ping must make two complete trips to the satellite and back, one for the outbound packet and another for the reply. Geosynchronous satellites are 22,236 miles up. At the speed of light, a round trip takes 240ms. Two of those is nearly half a second. That's in addition to the ping delay on the ground, which might be more than my 64ms, depending on where the Huges data center is.

I'm sure you've been annoyed by the real time delays in TV news conversations conducted via satellite. SL often shows its annoyance by simply refusing to work.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

I've known people with satellite internet that gof very frustrated when logging into SL,  Some couldn't move without crashing, but only IM or chat locally, and the ones that could move got lots of lag.  All ditched it and went with cable or DSL.