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satellite broadband and iChat
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: fredericksburg va
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anyone have any info on this, is the lag to great? any info is appreciated, thinking of hooking up the inlaws
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Mac Elite
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bump with the hopes that someone has a bit of info
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I speak from pure speculation here, based on my understanding of things -- I've never used satellite internet myself.
I would expect it to be rather frustrating. Satellite has exceedingly high latency: often a whole second or more (that's about 100 times slower than cable or DSL, and 10 times slower than a 56K modem). So it won't feel "natural", which is one of the things that normally sets iChat AV apart (on low-latency broadband, iChat AV has very low latency).
You know how on TV news they have reporters all over the globe, live via satellite? Notice how they have to leave a pause after talking for the person on the other end to respond? That's the latency at work.
So I would say that it would probably work, but would feel very unnatural -- don't expect it to "feel" like a phone call.
tooki
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Mac Elite
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That was my thoughts also, however the pic of the guy using iChat on a plane (was on apples website I believe) kinda threw me off...oh well
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Advertising doesn't always have to be truly representative of actual product performance-maybe the guy in the ad likes waiting a LONG time for the distant end to hear him and reply.
The extreme latency of satellite internet connections makes them a very poor choice for many people's interests; games, chat, video, all suffer horrendously. And from experience with actual satellite phone service, I can tell you that it SUCKS to have to wait that long to hear the other person say "uh huh." Chat would be worse!
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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