hughes net

[jolly22]

Were currently moving to a place out in the middle of no where, Gonna have hughes net, anyone else run aces high on hughes net and how does it work? Smooth gameplay?

[clerick]

If it's up and downstream are through the dish then you are probably going to be SOL. Latency can be a huge issue, at least it was in my case.

[ACE]

I had it. Terrible!  You will not enjoy flying anymore.  You'll have a 1 or 2 sec delay its bad bud. 

[icepac]

I connect through a blackberry tethered to my desktop or laptop.

I'm using "edge networking" as opposed to the faster 3g or 4g and it works fine for aces high without a single warping complaint ever.

That said, you might want to ask the local cell carriers what they offer for your geographic area.

If your house has any telephone landline, a standard modem will connect close to the cell phone latency without the added billing and 4 or 5 gb limits of a cell phone data package.

[ACE]

That's what I use ice I use my verizon phone for internet no lag

[Latrobe]

Hughes Net is Satelite, which is a worse internet connection for gaming than dial-up. For other things it's ok, but you only get so many MBs of download per day. After you reach the allowed number of MBs download your internet will slow so much, you'll begin to wonder if it's even working.

If I were you, I just get dial-up.

[2ADoc]

I had a satellite system in Iraq, I owned the dish, the modem and the whole thing, and I was still limited in the amount of bandwidth I could use per month.  It was alright for checking email, chatting with the wife, downloading tunes, and surfing porn, but as far as gaming, it didn't work too well.

[willy928]

I had Hughes net when they first came out due to lacjk of broadband in my rural area. It was a major improvement for me and my business. However due to "Special Relativity" you will find it is useless for Aces High. I bailed out the minute high speed DSL became available.

[Tigger29]

+1 to satellite sucking for gaming.  The latency is just too bad.

Dial up gets a bad rap because it's speeds are slow compared to broadband but the fact is that online gaming (at least with Aces High) doesn't require a lot of data to be moved at once which means that the speed of your internet connection isn't as important as the latency (lag) of it.  Since Aces High is realtime high latency in your connection is going to affect you.. and not in a positive way.

Dial up = Low speed, medium-low latency.
Cable/DSL/Fiber = High speed, low latency.
Satellite = Medium-high speed, extremely high latency.
Cell Phone = Medium-low speed, medium-low latency

Keep in mind that any wireless internet is especially prone to dropped packets meaning that realtime gaming may suffer as a result.  It also seems that with cell phone internet the faster you push the speed the more common you run into latency and dropped packet issues.  Personally if Cable/DSL wasn't available to me I'd have to use Dial up for gaming and cell for downloading/surfing.

[Rondar]

How do the wireless broadband isp do?  My neighbour has download speeds and upload speeds faster than my wired dsl. 

[AHTbolt]

Go with dial up, after my mom died I had to stay at her house till the estate was settled and she lived waaaay out in the sticks. Dial up was all that I could get, so I contacted Skuzzy and he gave me the Vid settings that ran the best with dial up and I never had a problem. Refresh your connection before you play but its the way to go.   

[ArcticKat]

I'm near Chicago and i use a 4G wireless connection. Very playable i usually ping upper 90's too 100 max.


Downloadi Speed:1224 kbps (153 KB/sec Transfer rate)

Uplead rate:651 kbps (81.4 KB/sec Transfer rate)

[SEseph]

I know someone who uses satilite but has dial-up soley for gaming. Dial-up is super cheap these days, so might be the way to go.