gaming/satellite people I need advice!!!
anybody have any ideas? Karen  |
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Gamers? well i never 
call the local internet service, some have enhanced dial up that is decent, its not high speed, but definately better than 56k is there cable internet in the area of your new house? you can just get the net since your going with dish for tv |
| My husband is a big gamer. I called him and he says satellite is AWFUL for gaming... He said something about the ping being bad and it causing games to lag. |
| The problem with online games is the upload speed, and believe that satellite is not good at that. DSL is the least you should go to play online, or maybe enhanced dial up. |
| I'm not sure about your area but enhanced dial up isn't all that for the money-- a friend of ours had it and it paled in comparison to our cable. Then again, maybe we're spoiled too but the it seemed sooooo slow. Cable or DSL is worth the money for sure if you can get it. |
| I think it depends on your area. We've had cable & DSL. DSL is SO much faster for us. We've had regular DSL and we have DSL Extreme right now. I can't really tell a difference between them, but my husband plays XBOX live and he can host more people in his rooms with the extreme one.
We both play MMORPG games on a home network (Everquest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies). We've had 6 accounts (some were friends, lol) running at the same time, and we haven't had any lag at all. From our experience, DSL is great with gaming! I don't think PC gaming is quite as bad as the xbox, ps2, etc... though. I know Jason seemed to have more problems playing it than he does when he plays on the pc (but that's been fixed since we got the enhanced dsl). |
| The problem with satellite, beside it's relatively narrow bandwidth compared to cable and most DSL, is latency, which is the amount of time that it takes for a round trip from your computer, to the satellite, to the web, to the website to the web to the satellite to your computer.
The satellite is 32,200 miles straight up from the equator, meaning that the radio waves must travel at least 128,800 extra miles compared to land based communications. Even at 186,282 miles per second (the speed of light and radio transmissions) the radio waves' 128,800 mile round trip takes a very substantial portion of a second. Dial-up doesn't have this latency problem (it just has a very very narrow pipe) so as long as the game doesn't require lots of data to move, even dial-up is probably better than satellite. Have I mentioned that not only am I a geek, but that I have Fiber Optic service coming to my house on Tuesday?  |
| Thanks everybody!
We got the satellite hooked up and the TV picture is gorgeous (and my wallet is much happier too). I'm gonna look into a DSL carrier in my area... SOMEBODY has to provide it, we're not THAT far into the boonies!! How's that fiber optic service working for ya, Ron?
Karen |
| Great so far!
(I answered your question before you finished typing it. ) |
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