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General Satellite Limitations

Applications that are affected by high latency may have problems. Satellite latency in the range of 720ms - 1500 ms can be expected. These latency affected applications include interactive gaming, VoIP, and non-TCP/IP applications.

From : http://www.dslreports.com/faq/2004 Quote:

Q: How do games work with Satellite Broadband? (#2004)
A: For the most part, dismally. Any interactive, "shooting" type game will not work well with the high latency associated with satellite connections. Most gamers will be better off sticking with dial-up connections if they have no other alternatives.

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The reason is simple: it takes almost 400 milliseconds for radio waves to reach the satellite, and almost 400 milliseconds for the satellite to transmit radio back down to the dish. So even if all other parts of the system are working with low latency, the laws of physics demand that the round-trip latency will be almost 1 full second. The latency penalty doesn't hurt you much for typical web browsing, but it's a killer for network games, internet telephony or conferencing.