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I work for ViaSat (the satellite provider for FlyFi)! You'll never have latency fast enough for "gaming" speeds, as your signal has to travel halfway to the moo
by wrenky 11y ago
I work for ViaSat (the satellite provider for FlyFi)! You'll never have latency fast enough for "gaming" speeds, as your signal has to travel halfway to the moon and back meaning a physical limit of at least 500ms.
Not good enough for gaming, but streaming/torrents/large downloads work great.
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- objclxt 11y agoMost US domestic airlines don't use satellite links, since they're always above ground. They tend to use ground based microwave technology instead, which offers better latency. Source: I used to do some consultancy for a provider of in-flight entertainment / wifi systems.
- rsync 11y ago"I work for ViaSat" Well, well, well... So, does viasat use different beams for the airplane links than the normal ground based, satellite consumers ? I assume yes, since most of the beams for ground users are stupendously oversubscribed, such that you can't even open gmail or load your banks website during a lot of the business day. Our solution for rural Internet used to be a plain old T1 from AT&T @ $450/month, and we replaced it with 12mbps viasat at $149/mo ... and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish we had that T1 back ...