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Midnight · « **on:** September 16, 2005, 11:29:36 AM »

Cod Damn and Double Damn. I just moved to my new house and the cable guy came to install cable TV / ISP. Guess what.. no cable actually runs to my end of the street yet (new contruction off the end of an older street)

I called telco, and no DSL available either.

Satallite ISP is $100 / month with a 15 month contract - OUCH

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Anyway, I'm grounded until I get an ISP solution, and dial-up isn't it.

I've got to go explain to Comcast that they need to run cable to my house

Furball · « **Reply #1 on:** September 16, 2005, 11:33:29 AM »

lie, say you run a business from home and need broadband.

dont they have ADSL through the telephone line there?

Creton · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2005, 11:36:03 AM »

i thought that satelite isp was out for gameplay because of lag issues?

JB12

hitech · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2005, 11:44:35 AM »

satalite = nasty game play.

HiTech

BBQ_Bob · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2005, 01:11:52 PM »

Sounds like you might have to move again.

Mister Fork · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2005, 01:31:25 PM »

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Originally posted by hitech
satalite = nasty game play.

HiTech

I agree with Hitech on this one. I was up in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories playing on Satellite (zoom out. I was not to far from the Artic). The connection was solid, but the latency was awful at around 700-800ms (pings that is). Felt as if I was playing Star Trek - every craft was warping around.

No cable in your community? Are they trying to loose money on purpose? I'd be

Howitzer · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2005, 02:38:29 PM »

I play on satellite and it is doable. My ping is between 600-700, and it is different but I don't suffer from too much warping on most days. It is my only option as well, and it gets the job done, but AH is the only game that even works for me. Hope they get the cable run out there =)

Delirium · « **Reply #7 on:** September 16, 2005, 02:53:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Howitzer
I play on satellite and it is doable. My ping is between 600-700

That is do-able? Ouch! I won't complain about my ping of 40-80 again.

Midnight · « **Reply #8 on:** September 16, 2005, 03:17:52 PM »

Dial up must get better pings than 700-800?

I can't play AH with warps...., especially the way I fly BnZ most times in P-51D.

Cod Damn this sucks!

Skuzzy,

I have a frac T at work and am about 4 miles (line of sight) from the office to my house. Any experience with omni-directional wireless antenna systems to extend the local network?

mars01 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 16, 2005, 04:10:15 PM »

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I play on satellite and it is doable. My ping is between 600-700, and it is different but I don't suffer from too much warping on most days.

That explains alot lolh

Sux Midnight!!!

Howitzer · « **Reply #10 on:** September 16, 2005, 10:08:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Delirium
That is do-able? Ouch! I won't complain about my ping of 40-80 again.

LOL, well its my only option at the moment =P If you live out in the boonies, its all you got. It really isn't that bad though, the only thing that sucks is that it looks like people are always shooting behind you, but they are pinging the he|| out of ya =)

fartwinkle · « **Reply #11 on:** September 16, 2005, 10:22:37 PM »

See If you can get ISDN it aint the fastest but at 144 up + down it played AH1 for me very well a few years back.

Problem is it can be pricey for what it is.

Slash27 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 17, 2005, 02:16:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Midnight
Dial up must get better pings than 700-800?

I

I get a ping of 156 on dial up.

BlkKnit · « **Reply #13 on:** September 17, 2005, 06:47:14 AM »

heh, even on my old dial up connex my ping was generally under 300. It ran around 200 until the phone company "repaired" the phone line.

I went to satelite and it worked fairly well, but warps would get out of hand and I couldn't play some days.

Now on cable, but its a new system and they are working the kinks out and on MY end it looks worse than it did on satelite. But my pings in the 50-60 range, so I ain't complainin.

Midnight, I'd say that unless you download a lot, dial up would serve you better than satelite. I am talkin from experience here