GlenQuagmire
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Directv has great TV content but their broadband sucks. Who want to play UT 2004 with 600ms + ping times. Nothing I will miss.  |
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Hayward
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| said by GlenQuagmire  :Directv has great TV content but their broadband sucks. Who want to play UT 2004 with 600ms + ping times. Nothing I will miss. What makes you think UT 2004 players or RT gamers period are such a huge market share?
You want/need a Ferarri you buy a Ferrari.
You don't expect the Geo to do the same but it still gets you from here to there.
VOIP maybe be nice and a possible cost saving where practical but hardly a neccessity.
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| said by Hayward :VOIP maybe be nice and a possible cost saving where practical but hardly a neccessity. Well many users of DTV are otherwise "off the grid" and have no access to phone as is the problem where I live in Baja. That's why we had such high hopes for VoIP. |
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2 edits | I know LA is getting bad.... but last I heard Beverly Hills had not relocated to the Baja 
But as I said if you just treat satellite VOIP as a walkie talkie where you pause... maybe even say "over" and resist interupting.... it CAN work still.
But short of changing the laws of physics NO increase in capacity is going to substantially reduce latency.
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| said by Hayward :I know LA is getting bad.... but last I heard Beverly Hills had not relocated to the Baja I'm back and forth. The odd thing is that international calls that are relayed over satellite don't seme to have the same latecy.
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4 edits | Yeah, well the thing is that though most assume that, it doesn't happen that way any more, it is virtually all under ocean fiber now (THOUSANDS OF THEM) and much shorter distance... less than 5-10K miles most often. (With the exception of satellite CELL but even then back to ground and mostly land routed. (and there is still 1/2 sec delay)
Not feeling like finding a link from Google, I have seen a map of underseas cables (mostly fiber now) and its really mind boggling how many there are now.... same way you can get a 500ms or less overseas internet connection from DSL or cable... none of it goes to satellite.
The only things that routinely do anymore are TV news remotes, because of the spot nature and high bandwidth ... and you notice if they are live, there is ALWAYS the 1 sec delay between any question and correspondent replying. Even if they are in the same area but being transmitted that way.
(Or even longer if other side of the world and two satellite hops to get there)
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