"Scott Lowrey" wrote in message om...
Pete Zaitcev wrote in message ...
"Lag" in the original poster's case, is actually referred to as
"latency" in the world of computer networking. Latency is defined as
the time it takes to set up and send a message,

Well, it's the overall transmission time from source to destination. The
overhead to set up and send a satellite packet isn't really any worse
than anything else, it just takes a long time to deliever.

Since all data is transported in TCP packets (in the case of Web
traffic), there is continual send AND receive on BOTH sides since TCP
requires acknowledgement of every packet on the part the of the
receiver (remember, TCP is a *reliable* protocol).

Actually, it's acknowledgement of the position in the byte stream.

Granted, the ACK
packets are much smaller than the data packets

There's no such thing as an ACK packet. A TCP packet can have
data as well as the ack for data received.