Comment Re:Sorry guys, but you are full of shit (Score 1) 533
Correct. We basically buy 1.6MHz on the satellite, and have our own private connection. Because it's SCPC (Single Carrier Per Channel) latency is typically 550ms, and the high priority QoS queue has very little jitter (on the order of 5 to 10ms). This makes the voice quality near toll quality, and very reliable.
For reference, over the past 24 hours, the folks on site downloaded 6GB and uploaded 2GB (including all the voice traffic), and this was a light day. I've had days when it's closer to 10GB downloaded (See patch tuesday). Anyhow the goal is to make it reliable, albeit slow, and in that we mostly succeed. I also deploy some measures to combat things like bittorrent and other P2P applications, just out of necessity to protect the network.