[Asterisk-Users] High latency from Europe, 500-800ms.

[Thomas Gallaway]

Angel Gabriel wrote:

>I'm no expert on * ,  I don;t even think i class as a newbie yet, but my
>understanding of a sat. link to the net is that the link is one way, as in
>downstream, and you still need an upstream conenction to your service
>provider. If this is the case, then remember, your internet service is only
>as fast as the slowest link in the chain.
>  
>

Not all sat connections are one way. But the issue with sat connections 
is.... *drumroll* latency!
As the signal is beeing relayed over the sattelite this will cause 
latency. Also if the sat service is not
providing enough downstream it's bad too.

I would definately look into getting your network straighend out first. 
There are many factors.
Is your connection shared? What speeds?

Let say it like that if you have people on your local lan using bandwith 
or running peer 2 peer
filesharing stuff this will take away your upstream speed. Do some tests.

Go to http://www.dslreports.com and do some speedtests to see how much 
speed you really got
towards the USA.