[Unknown Target]

And satellite TV!

But only one problem: I can't play any games! Tribes 2 is laggy as hell, and CFS2 won't even LAUNCH from the zone! Can anyone help me out??? Especially with the latter!

Also, on the zone, everyone has a ping of over 800, how come???

[SadisticSid]

As I understand satellite internet, don't you use a much slower mechanism to upload (usually a phone line, dunno if that means 56K or xDSL) and a much faster one to download? Maybe things have changed since I learned about this...

[redsniper]

satellite internet lags like a mofo... I know 'cuz I have it.
Basically, you're screwed as far as multiplayer FPS is concerned, but slower games like RPGs are still playable.

[aldo_14]

IIRc satellite internet - unles I misundestand what you mean - has to travel massive distances, thus negting any faster transmission speed (propagation delay, i think it is).

[Kazan]

aldo is exactly correct

[Unknown Target]

It works way faster for me (downloads), because I have such a remote location, so it's infinately faster than traveling through standard phone lines.
The upload speeds, however, are quite a problem. Is it possible to play a Space/Flight sim with it?

[aldo_14]

More on prop. delay

https://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/teaching/ug/classes/52.354/52332PropagationDelay.html

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                      PHYSICAL SEPARATION
PROPAGATION DELAY = ----------------------------
                     PROPAGATION VELOCITY


There used to be a diagram on that page...guess it was removed this year.  but it's the physical seperation that's dominant in this case.  If I remeber rightly,. propagation velocity is partly related to your modem (the bitrate it can send / recieve at), and the actual time to send those bits to the satellite.

I didn;t evne know you could get home use satellite internet, actually...although the UK is so small (in comparison to the US)  that we don;t have any call of it.

[an0n]

The UK does have Sat-net, but it's so ****ty and so expensive to run, most companies ignored it in favour of broadband.

And the reason it lags like **** is because a request has got to go through down the phone-line to the exchange, across the country to god-knows-where, be properly configured to only be picked up by the right 'puter, out into space, through the satellite's systems, then back down to Earth and into your dish.

[redsniper]

but it sure beats a 56k

[Unknown Target]

Yea, but we just came from DSL
But the thing is, we're hoping it's more reliable, cause the DSL service here goes down for days at a time without notice.

[redsniper]

oh, well... Out where I live it's either 56k (which runs at 28k 'cuz of crappy phone lines) or satellite.