@Jake Grey said:
@danixdefcon5 said:
I was tempted to tell them that we were unable to make the signals go at FTL speeds.I'm not sure that's quite accurate. As far as I'm aware, the only satellite of Earth far enough away that light takes an appreciable amount of time to travel there is the Moon; the actual cause of the hold-up is more likely to be packet losses from interference. Still not something you can do a lot about, of course.
It's pretty accurate, you have to do the math. Speed of light is 299792458 meters/second. A geostationary orbit for a satellite is at around 36000000 meters,and the radio signals of course travel at the speed of light, so:
36000000 m / 299792458 m/s = 0.120 s or 120 milliseconds per trip. Since you need 4 trips to start a request, that is about 480 ms of delay between the first request and the first packet back,
Usual ping times for satellite are about 500-1200 ms