3 ms·
I just got fiber (finally!) yesterday. My side by side speedtest with viasat showed the satellite link ping times at 651 to 1143 ms. by comparison, the fiber c
by h2odragon 3y ago
I just got fiber (finally!) yesterday. My side by side speedtest with viasat showed the satellite link ping times at 651 to 1143 ms.
by comparison, the fiber connection is 45ms.
It's incredible how much stuff on the modern web utterly fails with that kind of latency. Every "framework library" 200 byte xfer builds the chance that something wont load and the rest will crash. Not to mention the ISP's charming habit of picking random connections to either hijack for their "your bandwidth has run out but you can pay us to get unthrottled" message, or their random RST injection into streams (how they implement the throttles).
back when, long distance low rate audio modems rarely got worse than 200ms, as far as i recall. Packet network forwarders could make that much worse.
- jmbwell 3y agoThank you — very much the kind of info I was hoping for. You’re touching on one of the reasons I was asking. Modern usage relies on lots of round trip connections that are bound to make a number of applications unusable. And yet people use them. Seems like maybe more people are on that sort of connection than designers might realize. Anyway thanks, and congrats on your fiber!