Jab-Diddle Posted November 22, 2005 CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 Via satellite, latency is longer than land-line broadband [Cable, DSL] or even Wireless [WISP]. Latency runs around 600-900ms on average for most satellite users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 22, 2005 CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 Welcome to the forum, Jab-Diddle. Good question. I'm not sure about how the speedtests operate as far as accounting for packet losses and the impact on the results, but the best way to test your packet loss to the server is to ping it over a high number of hops. For example: ping -n 50 <URL or IP address of server> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jab-Diddle Posted November 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 .... but the best way to test your packet loss to the server is to ping it over a high number of hops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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