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I'm using sattelite internet from Cambodia (WiMax). Ping to 8.8.8.8 is around 8ms, and I pay $25 a month for 4mbit. Relability is better than the ADSL or Fiber
by stingraycharles 11y ago
I'm using sattelite internet from Cambodia (WiMax). Ping to 8.8.8.8 is around 8ms, and I pay $25 a month for 4mbit. Relability is better than the ADSL or Fiber options over here, due to countries like these being absolutely horrible at wiring cables.
- throwaway7767 11y agoWiMAX is not delivered over satellites, it uses ground-based basestations. The lowest latency satellite systems, using LEO orbit satellites, are around 40ms roundtrip.
- stingraycharles 11y agoI stand corrected -- after some Googling, I now realize it's more like 4G/LTE than anything else. Thanks for clearing that up!
- chkuendig 11y agoAre you sure it's really going through a satellite? WiMAX isn't per se satellite technology but normal radio with fixed basestations (though satellites are sometimes used to link really remote WiMAX stations)
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- jsudhams 11y agoalso I have seen 8.8.8.8 respond from cache kind (don't know how it works) 8ms seems to be impossible from combodia even on wired unless local ISP end is responding to that
- sathackr 11y agoI believe Google is using anycast for their DNS servers. Basically, the device responding to his ping from Cambodia likely isn't very far away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast