Residential VSAT experiences?

Tue Jun 23 13:37:30 UTC 2015

Reading about SIP made it seem like latency alone is not an issue, aside
from delays which impact verbal communication as previously mentioned. What
is going to be much worse is jitter and packet loss. You can eventually get
used to a significant delay, but dropped calls and chopped sound renders
the service useless.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Tim Franklin <tim at pelican.org> wrote:

> > Interesting that you say that about sip. We had a client that would use
> it
> > for sip on ships all the time. It wasn't the best but it worked. Ping
> times
> > were between 500-700ms.
>
> It really depends on your expectations - or more to the point, your
> end-users' expectations.
>
> I've tested SIP in the lab up to 2000ms RTT.  The protocols all hang
> together and keep working, but it's obviously very much in walkie-talkie
> mode, you can't hold a normal duplex conversation.  500ms there's more of
> the talking over each other / "sorry, you go" / "no, you go" dance, but it
> *is* workable.  If your end-user is expecting land-line replacement
> though...
>
> Regards,
> Tim.
>
>