Trans Atlantic communications?

I live on the west coast of the USA.  My current schedule provides time to play on Thursdays - especially in the late morning. This would be prime time to game with people in the UK/Europe. While I would love hearing new voices/accents/dialects I fear that a connection 10000 km away will be more laggy than our normal 2KM USA West coast/Midwest connection is. Does anyone connect regularly trans Atlantic or Pacific?  how does it work for you? MB

I've played Roll20 with mixed groups of people from multiple time zones / nations / continents and it worked normally for us (that is to say, occasional rare drop-outs or lags, that repairs itself after a few seconds, and which doesn't really seem to affect the longer-distance players any more than the nearby players). For example the player who dropped the most was in Houston USA and simply said their internet is unreliable, while player in the Midlands region of UK was fine, Netherlands fine, Japan fine, Australia fine. Surprised me a bit too. They honestly sounded just as close as the U.S. players.  We used audio-only, no video, I don't know if this would be any different with video mode.

Modern internet communications matters little for the distance between participants, and more for the quality of the connection each participant has. As Gold mentioned, you can have someone relatively close with a bad connection dropping out, and someone far away with a strong connection with no problems at all. If you watch news coverage talking with reporters in a distant country, you'll often see a time delay between question and response, and that's generally because they're using satellite communication, which will oftentimes be the lowest quality possible... but in some locations it's also the only one available, which is why it'll get used anyway.

I've tried it on several occasions and it usually works very well. As said before in the thread - it's more about connection then location. We had a group consisting of people from europe, US and australia going with next to none issues. Go for it!

Almost two years now with players in UK, Finland, Australia, Germany, Canada, Japan... when Roll20 gets laggy the person in the next room is as likely to lag as the person in Europe. The difference in slang is quite entertaining as you say something perfectly normal and there is childish laughter from someone who explains that what you just said is a euphemism for deviant sexual practices. Saturday nights are the only time the servers get a bit overloaded. The broadband in Europe is a lot faster than in the US, so any lag is not noticeable. 186,000 miles per second is a great equalizer.