it sure is
and i don't have to look at another ugly dish as to bandwidth
Yes it does. But just the trip up to the sat is longer than any round-trip on earth, and then your request has to come back down, plus the reply also has to go up and back down, and all of that (500ms best case) gets added to whatever the remaining trip through the fiber on the earth is.
Many web pages aren't just static content any more. What she's got from AT&T isn't "really low latency". I would call that "fair", while 500+ ms is just plain awful. Personally, I would rather have a low-latency connection with less bandwidth that a high bandwidth connection with a guaranteed 500+ ms of latency. No, I'm not a gamer, I just run my business remotely via a VPN and have seen first hand how much an increase in latency affects things, regardless how much bandwidth is available.
gigs? what does that even mean, why do these companies still put these rediculous claims in their data pricing? They are making it sound like they're offering gigabit services, I thought those were actually getting more along the lines of accuracy nowadays... still the cost, is actually better than what I expected to see, that's pretty good actually, I think cable is the best value while fiber is the best bang for your buck, but your not going to see pricing like that when they know they're your only option.
yup!
since that includes the home phone with unlimited long distance and other perks that century link (landline) has extra charges for. It depends what you're doing. Sure, if you're moving bulk data around, more bandwidth is better and latency isn't terribly important. But try using a CRM system that intrinsically has to make lots of database queries to do what it does, where the results of those queries are just small records and let me know which is more important.
When are you having to do this from home? & this database does not allow you to manage locally? just curious.
When I don't wish to be in the office. Which is most of the time. And "home" might be across the street from the office, or 1000 miles away, where the climate suits my clothes better.
It's a CRM system, containing records for every system we've sold, and everyone we've interacted with in the 18 years we've been in business. It needs to be accessible not just to me, but to a bunch of other people, some of whom also work remotely most of the time. So needless to say, the database lives in the office, where we've got a gigabit fiber connection.
Yeah, my upload speed is ridiculously fast comparatively. According to the City Network Admin my download is "supposed" to be just as as fast, but that is not what I have found in reality. My Upload has always been faster than my download since it was installed. My ping times are usually around 20ms, not sure why it was so high in this test.
Makes sense, what are you getting with the cellular, like 25mbps?When I don't wish to be in the office. Which is most of the time. And "home" might be across the street from the office, or 1000 miles away, where the climate suits my clothes better.
It's a CRM system, containing records for every system we've sold, and everyone we've interacted with in the 18 years we've been in business. It needs to be accessible not just to me, but to a bunch of other people, some of whom also work remotely most of the time. So needless to say, the database lives in the office, where we've got a gigabit fiber connection.
I only use cellular as a backup (and mostly as a backup to a backup). What I get there varies tremendously by location. At our cabin in SWVA, it's the only backup, and VZW is the only provider that has any coverage in the area at all. But I'm on the fringes of coverage and use a Wilson signal booster. That said, it's considerably faster than the 1.5 mbps DSL I've also got there -- I think I've seen as much as 10 mbps -- but I rarely use it because I prefer to to hoard the GBs I have available on my cell plan for when I really need them.
Here's one my buddy posted to a gaming forum I visit regularly(he uses a low-speed dsl for gaming only, & this for everything else) Hughes net gen 5
That was a great movie.
