How does Wild Blue Satellite Internet Service combat Latency?
With WildBlue satellite internet, latency only affects you while gaming and VOIP. With the extra 500ms lag that is part and parcel of internet connection via satellite, in most cases you will not be happy with first person shooters or any other high intensity gaming online. Someone playing online against you with DSL and an average 50ms ping time will pretty much wipe you right out of the game in no time, so no fun there. Also, using Vonage, NetZero or other telephony services online, are going to have a noticeable lag, usually at the beginning of a conversation. One way to illustrate this latency in internet business satellite is to watch CNN. Watch when they do an interview with someone overseas. When the anchor asks the individual, a question, there is a pause between the end of his question and the response received from the other end. That is the lag time between the anchor speaking and the individual receiving the question.
