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Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: SwS on July 19, 2007, 11:01:33 AM

Moving and won't have DSL anymore and wondering if Dishnetwork would be better than dial up for AH.

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: Scca on July 19, 2007, 11:05:56 AM

Watching this one..  I am planing a move in the future to an area that may not have highspeed

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: Krusty on July 19, 2007, 11:30:41 AM

DIAL UP!!!!!!

Satlink = bad, from almost EVERYTHING I've heard. Plus your upstream is only as good as dial up anyways.

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: Skuzzy on July 19, 2007, 02:53:16 PM

No matter what speed a satellite connetion is, the latencies will always be horrific.  No way to really do anything real-time over a satellite conneciton.

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: Latrobe on July 19, 2007, 06:59:41 PM

dial up would be best

i have both satilite and dial up and dial-up is best for all online games. Using a satilite for online games is bad because it takes the signal to reach the satilite in space come, down to where the satilite company is, back up to another satilite, and down to the Ace High server a few miliseconds. That may sound good but in those few miliseconds you could be sitting on the runway in the game for 10 seconds.

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: Skuzzy on July 20, 2007, 07:04:35 AM

It is more than a few milli-seconds.  Typical satellite feeds have around 3000 milli-seconds of latency due to the distance the data has to travel.

Title: dial up vs sat link
Post by: scottydawg on July 20, 2007, 11:31:32 AM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
It is more than a few milli-seconds.  Typical satellite feeds have around 3000 milli-seconds of latency due to the distance the data has to travel.

For the non-geeks out there, 3000 milliseconds is 3 seconds. (A millisecond is NOT a miilionth of a second, it's a thousandth of a second... don't ask)  
That's a lot of lag and AH or any other realtime game will be totally unplayable online.

You have to understand that with satellites, your transmission has to bounce to the satellite, from the satellite to their terrestrial network, through the terrestrial network to wherever you're trying to go, BACK to the ground link, then BACK up to the satellite and back to you. In an ideal situation without any queuing or problems, that would take 2-3 seconds.
 
You'd be better off with dialup.