FBO's and WiFi

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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If you meant "Unless you are playing online computer games, you would
never
notice the lag while doing things a typical FBO is likely to do" you
should
have said so.

Of course you're right. This is, after all, the Usenet, and there's always
someone around willing to broaden your discussion in an attempt to discredit
you. Heaven forbib someone make a try at a little brevity, and leave out
critical clauses like "(or something like that)", or "(for example)", or
another parenthetical elaboration that would prevent the Usenet pundits from
distracting from the underlying point once again.

Thank you for the reminder.

(Then we'd ask why you thought you had to specifically count
out online computer games as something FBOs typically use.)

Actually, I mentioned online computer games specifically because there are a
handful that I could actually see being used in an FBO. Multiplayer flight
sims, for example. The other examples of things that latency would cause
problems with are farther afield, and in fact are things many people reading
my post would not have even heard of.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" writes:

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
...
If you meant "Unless you are playing online computer games, you would
never
notice the lag while doing things a typical FBO is likely to do" you
should
have said so.

Of course you're right. This is, after all, the Usenet, and there's always
someone around willing to broaden your discussion in an attempt to discredit
you.

Well, you *were* wrong.

Heaven forbib someone make a try at a little brevity, and leave out
critical clauses like "(or something like that)", or "(for example)", or
another parenthetical elaboration that would prevent the Usenet pundits from
distracting from the underlying point once again.

If you're going to say things that are wrong, you should know that someone
is likely to nail you. I depend on people doing that for me.

If you still think you'll never notice the lag, do as I suggested and set
up a voice call to me over a consumer satellite IP service. Do it from an
FBO if it makes you happy. I'll be *thrilled* if we don't "notice the lag."

--kyler

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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Well, you *were* wrong.

Hardly.

My statement was never intended to be the end-all, be-all enumeration of
situations in which the connection's latency would be noticed. My point was
and still is that it's not the kind of thing an FBO would be concerned with.
I mentioned games as something that, while probably still unusual, is a
situation in which someone at an FBO would notice the latency.

You took it upon yourself to broaden the intended interpretation of the
statement, and then correct it on that basis. Granted, that's typical
Usenet behavior, and that's all my most recent reply was intended to
acknowledge.

Pete