Tooway Satellite Broadband
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My experience of satellite is that the pings are shocking so generally lead to a sluggish feel whilst browsing and virtually unusable for anything that requires low ping times like games and to a lesser extent VoiP telephony. For downloads speeds were good as once the stream gets going it can maintain maximum bandwidth.
That combined with the price (£60 for only 50gb) made it a no-go.
That combined with the price (£60 for only 50gb) made it a no-go.
boxst said:
My experience of satellite is that the pings are shocking so generally lead to a sluggish feel whilst browsing and virtually unusable for anything that requires low ping times like games and to a lesser extent VoiP telephony. For downloads speeds were good as once the stream gets going it can maintain maximum bandwidth.
That combined with the price (£60 for only 50gb) made it a no-go.
You're absolutely right but, tbh, i'm not fussed about online gaming (apart from downloading 100mb car packs for forza on XBL and that doesn't need a low ping) or VOIP. That combined with the price (£60 for only 50gb) made it a no-go.
I got it from toowaybroadband.co.uk and it was actually £45/month, not £40 - my mistake.
No idea if 26gb would be enough but, with the transfer rate we're getting from BT it would take 21 days to download 26gb and I'm nowhere close to that so I figure it will be enough for our meagre needs!
k it's good. I downloaded a car pack for forza4 last week on bt broadband, 110mb, took over 2 hours. Downloaded another just now, same size, took less than 2 minutes!onlynik said:
boxst said:
My experience of satellite is that the pings are shocking
That's because the little packets of internet need to travel up to the sky and back down, roughly a 600ms trip.Lefty said:
onlynik said:
boxst said:
My experience of satellite is that the pings are shocking
That's because the little packets of internet need to travel up to the sky and back down, roughly a 600ms trip.Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff