Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Gaming on Connexion

My gaming portal idea isn't going anywhere, but its good to see some people playing games on airplanes.
http://connexionbyboeing.com/index.cfm?p=cbb.specialpromo&l=en.US

I wonder how the latency will be over the satellite link. I don't know any technical details of the link, but I can only imagine that the ping would have to be pretty high. I mean, the packet is going: wifi to airplane, airplane to satellite, satellite to ground station, ground station to internet... then the return packet takes the same long path.

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