Who wins in speed cable or satellite [speed cable] [cable or satellite]
Q: So can anyone tell me how fast satellite is comparable to cable? Operating speeds? : Beer:
Best Answer: DSL uses a phone line, FiOS uses fiber optic cable – it's a lot faster.
However, regardless of the speed from you to your provider – and that's all you're buying – the internet is seldom over 1mbps thruput, so that's the maximum download speed you're going to get from anything but your own provider's servers.
Your 54mbps wireless speed is the speed between your laptop and your router, and it's burst speed (the speed of each packet), not thruput speed (the average connection speed).
You'll still get downloads as slow as 40kbps, even with a 50mbps connection.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Satellite sucks. I'd rather use dialup.That makes 2 of us. It really is that bad.
Re:You should only consider satellite as a last ditch solution if no other options are available. guy is right on the money that satellite has horrible latency and is expensive on top of that. Gaming is out of the question if that's important to you.
Re:Satellite sucks. I'd rather use dialup.
Re:It depends on your needs and location. If you have the option to get cable or satellite, go with cable. Satellite is really a solution for people in really rural areas who need a solution that is better than dial-up.
Satellite has high latency and from my understanding moves data in larger packets. That is why it's bad for gaming or any application that requires a constant high speed connection.
As where cable provides a hi-speed solution that is constant and really the only variable is how many users are on the same node as you. Typically your upload speed is poor on cable.
Hope this helps
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