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Nice to see. I would have hoped to see more of a mention around latency. A lot of tools are sensitive to this and a theoretically fat pipe is not useful if yo
by bentcorner 6y ago
Nice to see. I would have hoped to see more of a mention around latency. A lot of tools are sensitive to this and a theoretically fat pipe is not useful if you have 100ms+ latencies.
- thaeli 6y agoAlso data caps. A fast connection with a 20Gb monthly data cap (common for LTE) still isn't usable as household broadband.
- guntars 6y agoLatency is the real killer. I used HughesNet satellite internet while travelling for a while and it has a 650ms round trip. Even sites built by talented and well compensated engineers would sometimes be completely unusable. For example, YoutubeTV used to download the video data in tiny little sub 1MB chunks, each from a seemingly separate CDN endpoint. The result was that each chunk needed a DNS roundtrip and then another one or two for SSL handshaking so it would take at a minimum 1.5 - 2 seconds to even start downloading the data. Needless to say, it was not usable. Moral of the story - latency and roundtrips are the devil and some users have it extra bad, but if you make it work for them, it's going to be amazing for everyone else too.
- ncallaway 6y agoThe FCC has been skeptical of the latency of Starlink offerings, which are well below 100ms. See https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-has-serious-doubts-spacex-starlink-can-deliver-a-low-latency-internet https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-has-serious-doubts-spacex-sta... for an example. So, it might be that the senators aren't pushing that because the FCC has already been on the ball for latency, and pushing to keep latencies down around 30-40ms
- donmcronald 6y agoBased on my anecdotal observations online, developers don't even understand the impact of latency, so it's not surprising it gets omitted.