The Equator and internet service??
Does being closer to the equator have anything to do with internet service? Up North it could be raining, sleeting, snowing cats and dogs and I ALWAYS had internet service. Here in Florida, EVER...
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Sam Spade wrote:
So, let's get back to the original quesion:
IF, as some of you claim, Internet service NEVER routes via satellite, how do you explain it going out of service every time there is a heavy rain ?? Some of that might be explained by a crappy provider who doesn't have battery backup during power failures but not all.
Easy- bad terrestrial equipment. A bit of moisture in a connection is all it takes.
And secondly, how many ISPs are there who give a latency guarantee ?? I suspect none.
AFAIK, online gaming is the only thing that really cares about that and I'd bet that users who still do that in real time are a TINY number......if any at all.
You would be wrong about that- there are huge real time online games.
However- the main reason traffic does not travel via satellite is cost- there are still miles of "dark" fiber optic cable wating to be used, it makes zero sense to pay for the bandwidth via satllite.
Now- there are some LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite schemes that do phone and data, and have acceptable latency, but they are a different matter entirely.
