The Equator and internet service??

[rockhillmanor]

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, EVERY time it rains you loose your internet connection.
Heck if it's raining hard enough you can't even buy your lottery tickets because they go down too!

Think it has anything to do with being closer to the Equator and how the satellites revolve and/or their position.? :?

[Ed_Gee]

Sam Spade wrote:

2oldman wrote:
I'm not aware of internet using satellites.

ALL electronic communication is likely to use a satellite somewhere in it's transmission path; even some fairly short trips that you would never believe.

In the case of Florida, there is land access from only one direction: North. Other places can have cable or fiber come in from 4 directions, N,S,E and W. This contributes, in part, to more coming in from above.

Not true. There are a multitude of undersea fiber cables coming in to Florida.

[rockhillmanor]

Sam Spade wrote:

2oldman wrote:
I'm not aware of internet using satellites.

ALL electronic communication is likely to use a satellite somewhere in it's transmission path; even some fairly short trips that you would never believe.

In the case of Florida, there is land access from only one direction: North.

Other places can have cable or fiber come in from 4 directions, N,S,E and W. This contributes, in part, to more coming in from above.

This makes the most sense why it would not work as well in Florida being a peninsula. Today's storm which shut my access down was a wide storm band covering the entire north of Florida.

Btw: I have over the air TV reception and the same goes with that too. I know that's a tower but still the same, rain, no TV. And with my friends in Florida who have cable/satellite there TV reception goes out in the rain in a heart beat also. They just accept it as it comes with the territory.

I miss Wisconsin. :C

[2oldman]

Chris Bryant wrote:
And- no part of the Internet is via satellite, unless you have a sat internet provider. It's all fiber optics- satellites have far too much latency.

That's what I thought. Thanks.

[John___Angela]

Chris Bryant wrote:
I had problems, finally found out about the forums at http://www.dslreports.com/- they have specific forums for ISPs. Got on, talked to the Brighthouse guy. and they sent the lead tech out, changed everything at our place, finally found the bad hardware a few miles away.
Now I get rock solid 100Mbps down, 10 up (and there are 2 tiers faster, if I want).

And- no part of the Internet is via satellite, unless you have a sat internet provider. It's all fiber optics- satellites have far too much latency.

Agreed. And rarely is voice routed through satelite unless you are looking for a long delay. If you have ever talked over a satelite phone it is a very awkward experience unless you are going thru a Low Earth Satelite. Thats why consumer lines are all through microwave (mostly in mountainous areas) and fiber/copper every where else.

[Chris_Bryant]

I had problems, finally found out about the forums at http://www.dslreports.com/- they have specific forums for ISPs. Got on, talked to the Brighthouse guy. and they sent the lead tech out, changed everything at our place, finally found the bad hardware a few miles away.
Now I get rock solid 100Mbps down, 10 up (and there are 2 tiers faster, if I want).

And- no part of the Internet is via satellite, unless you have a sat internet provider. It's all fiber optics- satellites have far too much latency.

[Sam_Spade]

Ed_Gee wrote:
so actually satellite internet should be best at the equator .... assuming that is where the satellite transmission beam is aimed.

BAD assumption.

The satellites are located and the "beam is aimed" at the point of largest population density. There just ain't much worthy of commercial interest in the band around the earth where central and south Florida is located.....except maybe Miami. There are almost NO paying customers located on the equator.

And it IS all about money. The won't provide satellite service to an area where there is nobody to pay for it.

[Sam_Spade]

2oldman wrote:
I'm not aware of internet using satellites.

ALL electronic communication is likely to use a satellite somewhere in it's transmission path; even some fairly short trips that you would never believe.

In the case of Florida, there is land access from only one direction: North. Other places can have cable or fiber come in from 4 directions, N,S,E and W. This contributes, in part, to more coming in from above.

[Ed_Gee]

Internet service can be delivered by telephone line (DSL), cable, fibre optic cable, wirelessly (WiFi), and satellite. Being at the equator has nothing to do with any delivery method except satellite, and the equator is the closest point on the earth to geostationary satellites so actually satellite internet should be best at the equator .... assuming that is where the satellite transmission beam is aimed.

[rockhillmanor]

USB mobile broadband.
Happens also when I used the wifi off my friends satellite internet and as they get cut off too. They say it happens all the time. I'm in North Central Florida.

Don't know what the lottery uses for internet service but they go down in heavy rain here too. Kind of fun to watch late at night when the cut off time is near and watching the people wanting to buy lottery tickets freaking out when their service goes down because of the rain.

Once the rain passes it's up and running and lottery sales back on line.

Certainly not a life or death situation.
I was just wondering what could cause it to happen in this area.

[Sam_Spade]

rockhillmanor wrote:

Think it has anything to do with being closer to the Equator and how the satellites revolve and/or their position.? :?

Yes but it also has to do with the quality of the receiving equipment in use. In my limited experience in Florida, some of the equipment is in really BAD shape.

[2oldman]

I'm not aware of internet using satellites.

[AllegroD]

How do you receive your internet?

[Tom_M1]

No.