Okay, where my friend lives there is only dial up and he is sick of it...no dsl or cable service around so he want's to get Satallite Internet... he want's to be able to play single player games like Unreal Tournament, Quake..., but I heard that Satallite has a problem connection with games such as those...and if Satallite is enough for those types a games is there a certian brand or service that you would suggest and he is looking into this Satallite provider: http://www.rapidsatellite.com/direcway_land.aspx (the small office) http://www.mywildblue.com/speed-and-pricing.htm (wild blue value/ or WildBlue Select) http://www.starband.com/telecommuter/index.asp Please..any help would be appreciated i don't want him to drop all this money and it doesnt even work for what he want's it to..
satelite isn't considered goood for gaming, not because of speeds, but because of latency. moving those waves from numerous points takes a fair amount of time as compared to hardwired connections. still an increase in bandwidth always helps. a ping of say 50 isn't too bad, that's stil only 2/100s of a second.
is that bad?? i get 130 - 140 and i play with no lag.......... please just be straight do you think this will work?
ping has nothing to do with lag. ping is just the delay. 150ping is a 3/20th of a second delay. He won't lag(unless the weather is bad) but he won't have a low latency. When I play, my latency tends to range from 6-20 on local(within 20 miles) servers FYI, lag is most commonly caused by insufficient hardware not an innsufficient connection, you can play with miimal lag on 56k dialup if you turn off all other internet accessing activities and configure your hardware properly.
