Question bout 2 way sat

Rags

Just wondering about 2 way sat internet, I ve seen a lot of
posts about it but I hear its very bad for gaming because
of the high pings you get. But are we talking about 56k modem
bad or even worse ? I'm not sure many of ye will know but any
advise would be helping me out big time.

james

Moriarty

Pings will be far worse than a 56k modem. Best you could expect is > 500ms.

ando

ah.. emmm, not sure about that ....

My friend in england managed to get a ping of 180-270 Miliseconds when playing on British Servers with a 2-way satellite connection ....

chernobyl

Originally posted by ando
ah.. emmm, not sure about that ....

My friend in england managed to get a ping of 180-270 Miliseconds when playing on British Servers with a 2-way satellite connection ....

quite simple here.


no he does not...nananana.


its simply impossible to get anything below 500 with bi directional sat.

Rags

heh thanks guys I'm even more confused then ever now.
Thankfully I'll have a chance to check out a comp with 2 way
sat access in over a week. I' ll post up what I think of it after I get to test it out to the max if anyone is interested.

james

rymus

had a bit of a plan which should have really come to me earlier.. myself and a pal are going to order the 800k/sec flavour of the educom service and den we shall connect his place to mine using a wireless conn. Old idea I know, but hey.. how else am I going to make this affordable for myself?

ando

Originally posted by Rags
I' ll post up what I think of it after I get to test it out to the max if anyone is interested.

james

Please do I'm thinking about getting that educom sat service iswell ... I really want to know for definate what its like with gaming

Moriarty

Originally posted by ando
Please do I'm thinking about getting that educom sat service iswell ... I really want to know for definate what its like with gaming

Some people just wont listen :rolleyes:

bkehoe

Or listen to those who ever used 2 way sat.

450ms is the absolute minimum that you will get, usually only from the sat companies own servers.

ando

what about Low Orbit 2 way sat ?

chernobyl

Originally posted by ando
what about Low Orbit 2 way sat ?

Low Earth Orbit does not exist yet...maybe 2005.

Rags

I was on the phone to educom the other day and questioned him about the 2 way sat internet , I asked him how it was for gaming and he said he wouldnt be good but he thought it would be better then 56k modem for gaming but not as good as an ISDN line, he did say he didnt know for sure tho. One thing that he said which might be important is that they have some sort of anti lag software. Maybe that helps ? I dunno

bkehoe

That would be in relation to HTTP; I beleive Hughes have a system similar to Gilat for speeding up the loading of webpages to avoid the delay caused by high lag.

Brendan