@Landon_Robinson wrote: That is true that the distance will be further since neither I or the gateway are directly on the equator, I live somewhat north of the "45th Parallel", but still the round trip of 89,000 miles is going to be something around half a second, but going back to what I was talking about before... if I can ping my gateway at 0.4xx ms the problems should not be on my end. A ping is essentially a singular event and measures the round trip access time for that one event. Accessing a web site or streaming server just for one access may be several events, depending upon additional content (images, stylesheets, javascript, etc.) and/or secure authentication processes, which in iteself is a multi-access event due to handshaking. So more complex than a ping, and the latency effects are cumulative.
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