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Does anyone here work remotely on a satellite connection? How has your experience been? I live in an extremely isolated town of 200 people in the North Cascade
by kyleblarson 12y ago
Does anyone here work remotely on a satellite connection? How has your experience been? I live in an extremely isolated town of 200 people in the North Cascades (Washington state as well) and currently use CenturyLink DSL. Because the line to my little community is saturated, they can only offer us 1.5 down. It's slow, but I make it work and thankfully the bandwidth is very consistent and my work isn't super bandwidth intensive. I have often wondered if it would make sense to put satellite into the mix as well. We already have Dish for TV.
- paulornothing 12y agoMy father in law works really remotely in PA. He gets about the equivalent of 3g phone speeds. I have found when I'm visiting it's not super reliable, that issue may be the router though.
- bobdvb 12y agoI used to work in the business of supplying satellite links like this in Europe and the Middle East, so not the same as the USA. It is a good alternative if you have no practical alternative such as a landline but I would only call it a basic alternative to ADSL. The biggest problem is latency and there are two factors that impact latency: 1) Distance (the satellite is really far away) 2) Contention (it is often a TDMA system so your packets have to wait for the next available time slot, in a busy network this can cause problems) Bandwidth isn't the primary concern, it is usually quality and latency. They are tightly related but latency is something that always limits you because it makes VoIP, VNC and gaming difficult.