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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by timerickson on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:13AM (#6235583)
HD over 3G/4G LTE cellular connection? The lag would in the order of a few seconds, which makes flying FPV extremely difficult. It also means a huge data bill unless I've been grandfathered into a "unlimited" data plan.

I think I'll just stick to some of the cheaper, well respected 5.8Ghz FPV setups.

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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by SkyDrone on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:29AM (#6235622)
We get below 150ms end-to-end latency. Check out our project page where we describe what we do different to achieve this.
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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by lgeek on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:24AM (#6236160)
> below 150ms end-to-end latency

Is that network latency or video latency?

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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by SkyDrone on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:26AM (#6236166)
real perceivable end-to-end video latency
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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by andymoe on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:17AM (#6235591)
There are ways around the lag issue on LTE, but you are correct, it's going to be a bit expensive for the hobby market.
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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by SkyDrone on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:34AM (#6235636)
As mentioned above, LTE latency really isn't that bad. Just most implementations on top of it usually result in high latency. I think we avoid this pretty good in our project.
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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by THE_PUN_STOPS on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:49AM (#6235972)
Have you published any details about how you accomplished low latency? For example, you stated 150ms further up in this thread, what were the conditions for that test? Was it documented?

As sweet as low latency HD FPV would be, I'm hesitant to spend more money on a "newfangled" digital solution unless I I'm aware of such technical details.

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Re:Sky Drone FPV: NSA-proof Video Transfer System for Consum... by SkyDrone on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:53AM (#6235980)
I would suggest to read "The geeky stuff" section on our campaign page, it explains how we achieve low latency. If you want to know specific details I am happy to elaborate.
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