Well, I appear to be screwed. I recently moved out of my home in the big city, to a road 4 miles away from a small town. Despite being promised I could, I was told after I moved that I cannot get cable internet or DSL at my new location; I live 2 miles away from the nearest cable. My question: Has anyone here used (or is using) satellite internet? Even wireless broadband wont cover here. Satellite is my only option, and I've heard it sucks for gaming purposes. When asking the company about it, they're purposefully vague. Anybody here have an experience with it? Any help would be appreciated.
My buddy uses satellite internet when hes fishing all summer in Alaska, says it can be choppy but for the most part it works for him (he's not very good though, so that doesn't mean much).
Directway will implicitly state they're not in competition with broadband cable.
I checked that out before I moved to BFE for a short while.
Plus it was $600 for the Directway equipment and whatnot.
I checked that out before I moved to BFE for a short while.
Plus it was $600 for the Directway equipment and whatnot.
They dont wack you so hard for the equipment anymore... Sped is good.. but Pings are bad. Dont ever expect to see a ping uner 100 ever again... 150-200 seem to be the norm... BVery hard to effectively pat BF2 with pings that high.
I know someone who uses satalite and he says it "works" but it's very choppy and unstable. In your case it's better then nothing until u get cable in your area.
Satellite still uses a 56k modem. You send your request over the modem and get the data via satellite. Thus, you'll have a downstream of about 512k-whatever your ISP provides but an upstream of 56k.
I've heard that satellite can be easily affected by weather
Last edited by Dr.Battlefield (2006-04-17 12:57:01)
You take that back... I rarely have a ping as low as 80, mine hovers around 100-120 and I'm not bad... Getting better, sadly my newbie days really show in my stats... It took me a while to figure out what I was doing...Impaqt wrote:
They dont wack you so hard for the equipment anymore... Sped is good.. but Pings are bad. Dont ever expect to see a ping uner 100 ever again... 150-200 seem to be the norm... BVery hard to effectively pat BF2 with pings that high.
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
Yup... Every time a storm blows up mine cuts out...Dr.Battlefield wrote:
I've heard that satellite can be easily affected by weather
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Just to clear something up I DON'T have a satellite connection to the net. I have ADSL but I live in "the Top End" of Australia in a tiny town so everybody's broadband cuts out when a storm hits us.
Last edited by Flecco (2006-04-17 14:02:00)
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.