The South African Internet problem that 500 Mbps fibre cannot solve

rustypup said:
Wait. Someone thought bandwidth could overcome latency?

Really?!

Would love to meet this individual. Will add them to the random number generator Rube Goldberg machine.
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In terms of a dial-up modem vs dsl it does. We are however far beyond the point where your bandwidth makes up the biggest portion of the latency. In reality data only travels at about 50% the speed of light along any route. If we can solve that we already overcome a huge hurdle.
 
Swa said:
In terms of a dial-up modem vs dsl it does. We are however far beyond the point where your bandwidth makes up the biggest portion of the latency. In reality data only travels at about 50% the speed of light along any route. If we can solve that we already overcome a huge hurdle.
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Theoretically starlink or other Leo constellation should be able to cut the latency by at least 33% if the route entirely with free space optics in space. But that is just theory - as far as I know the Starlink network still downlinks to nearest ground station and transmits the rest of the way via fibre.
 
Johand said:
Theoretically starlink or other Leo constellation should be able to cut the latency by at least 33% if the route entirely with free space optics in space. But that is just theory - as far as I know the Starlink network still downlinks to nearest ground station and transmits the rest of the way via fibre.
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Yes, it does not send to a Euro satellite and transmit to ground, it transmit to ground to the nearest base station. So latency is still fairly high.
 
Not sure why this article was needed. This is how traffic works. It's not a SA internet problem.

lacency is not related to bandwith. I thought by now this was obvious. If you download from overseas it's going to be slower. This is why CDN's have local caching servers in all the data centers so your traffic is served from the closest hop.

Did someone sell this guy a 500Mbps link and told them it will fix their latency.

I have a bridge to sell you.
 
I do wonder how does a country like hours ...resolve the latency like how do you lower it even though distance wise we quiet far is it less connecting points i truely dont know on this.

that could of been an article
 
NR7 said:
If a game doesn’t have local servers I usually don’t bother
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Yep. Hence so many MP games are DOA here. At least in the past p2p was a thing, Was so stoked for Gears, but pvp at 180 -200ms ping is an exercise in frustration. Got so pissed uninstalled without even completing campaign or giving Horde a proper go.

Azure, Amazon etc have data centers here, but there is no inclination in hosting game servers. COD however looks after local players. Unsure who makes that call.
 
Tech Guy SA said:
I do wonder how does a country like hours ...resolve the latency like how do you lower it even though distance wise we quiet far is it less connecting points i truely dont know on this.

that could of been an article
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Requires the country to be wealthy (doing better economically) so more people can afford lekke internet, so more servers are hosted locally. Problem solved.
 
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