Latency Or Satellite Shortcomings?
There is all this talk of distance affecting latency which doesn't seem to wash. If the signal has to travel 88,000 miles latency shouldn't be an issue when the speed of light is considered. Traveling...
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Cblucas3 wrote:
There is all this talk of distance affecting latency which doesn't seem to wash. If the signal has to travel 88,000 miles latency shouldn't be an issue when the speed of light is considered.
It's actually higher than that, because you aren't on an island on the equator, directly "under" the satellite. It's more like the mid 90s or so. The latency due soley to distance will be at least somewhere around 500ms, and the further your location and your gateway's location from the satellite, the higher it will be. Add the infrastructure the signal has to travel through and that adds another 100ms or so.
As others have stated, testmy's latency calculations of very often off by quite a bit, and consistently. As also stated, the best latency calculations you can get are by running traceroutes.
The ES19 satellite has a capacity of around 200 - 225Gbps. HughesNet has approximately 1.4 million customers. How many of those customers are connected to the ES19 sat is anyone's guess, but it's likely no more than half, as there are still numerous people connected to the ES17 and older satelites, though the older ones are dwindling.
