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I find it amusing that anywhere with the option for wired internet is considered "rural". Is bufferbloat an issue for satellite based internet in the same way t

• jsnell 8y ago
  It's a far bigger problem for satellite internet. The base RTT on satellite connections is far higher; think 500ms instead of 20ms. This means that any packet loss takes longer to recover from, which in turn means that there's a big incentive for the satellite provider to always buffer packets and never to drop them. Satellite internet also tends to be relatively slow compared to fixed line. It's a lot easier to trigger massive levels of bufferbloat on a 1Mbps connection than a 50Mbps one. (I used to work on TCP acceleration boxes that among other things eliminated bufferbloat in satellite networks. But it's a far easier problem to solve when you're on the correct side of the bottleneck link.)
• war1025 8y ago
  I have family in what is definitely rural Minnesota [1], and they have fiber to the home. I believe 50/50 is the base package, and when I looked into it, it was less than I pay for 25/25 in significantly less rural Iowa. [1] The nearest town is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillman,_Minnesota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillman,_Minnesota
  • bradknowles 8y ago
    Yup, rural co-ops can do a whole lot of things for their customers, when the big cable companies and telcos aren’t squeezing the sheeple for every red nanopenny. Funny how that works out.