If you're going through a satellite, you have the same exact lag no matter where the server is. What possible advantage could having it in orbit have over being on the ground? In gaming or just about anything else the response time between you and the far end is what counts, not between you and the server or relay. And what's the problem with cooling your equipment in LEO? The tiny bit of Earthlight you have to deal with is insignificant compared to sunlight.
Quote from: Nomadd on 12/29/2013 04:24 pm If you're going through a satellite, you have the same exact lag no matter where the server is. What possible advantage could having it in orbit have over being on the ground? In gaming or just about anything else the response time between you and the far end is what counts, not between you and the server or relay. And what's the problem with cooling your equipment in LEO? The tiny bit of Earthlight you have to deal with is insignificant compared to sunlight.I don't think that's right. If I am in AZ and am roundtripping to a server in IL via satellite, that's 4 hops (AZ-bird-IL, process process process, IL-bird-AZ with each hop a "-")If I am in AZ and roundtripping to a satellite server, that's only 2 hops (AZ-bird process process process bird-AZ again with each hop a "-")
Hi, didn't want to bump the other thread but it got me trying to think up any advantage of putting computer power in orbit.What about geek factor? If you think cloud computing is cool just because you are a nerd, wouldn't you love to be able to host your webpage or ascii MUD game or whatever from a server in orbit? Lag is suddenly something to brag about... you only have 500ms lag? Ha. I have 2500ms because Im coming from the frikken moon you lame-o I admit the market might be fairly small, but the hardware you need to launch is potentially negligible. It may already exist. You could be just attaching a bit of extra computing power and bandwidth to a communications satellite, or making use of computing power that it otherwise would not use. It is barely about the scale of computing power. Nerds got all excited about putting their name on space missions, thats the cost of a handful of bytes.There are a lot of us
You could be just attaching a bit of extra computing power and bandwidth to a communications satellite, or making use of computing power that it otherwise would not use. It is barely about the scale of computing power.
The tiny bit of Earthlight you have to deal with is insignificant compared to sunlight.
I like the idea. Having a modern general purpose computer in space would be a really good playground for designing fault-tolerant software. It would be a nice challenge to design a system that is reliable despite the occasional bitflip or other disturbance due to cosmic radiation.