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I'm using dial up. I used it the last time I played EQ ( around 3 years ago) and my only real option for high speed is satelitte. I have heard many reason why SAt. is not good for gaming. My boss told me that there is a 3 sec delay in sat which makes it impossible for first person shooters. He said its ok for roleplaying but I can't imagine playing EQ with a 3 second delay. When I last played I did decent connection and only lagged in newer zones and the bazaar at times. I usually didn't have much trouble playing , grouping or even raiding. There was so lag on big raids but dealable. I would like to go to high speed. Anyone know if its impossible to do on sat. or just not as good as DSL?
Most people consider Satellite out of the question for such games, but there are few that have done it successfully. There are some threads here about doing it with some links. If you look on the first few pages of threads, there should be a few titles that jump out and one of them will have some information on doing it.
As others have often recommended, if you know someone in your area with Sat connection, see if you use their computer, or take your's over there and hook up and try the demo out, and see how it works.
Even people using Wi-Fi often complain about the ping times, and I can't really see how you'd get any better on Satellite than Wi-Fi. Personally, I can't tolerate anything over 1sec ping (1000ms), but some can and adjust to it. And I've heard of people getting under 2sec pin on Satellite, but even with that I wouldn't be able to take it.
Modem play is stlll tolerable on faster computers. If the computer is slow also, modem play becomes very rough, but mostly only during zoning / patching. For the newest zones, I can't imagine how long the zone time would be on modem, since I haven't played EQ for at least 2yrs with modem. However, at the end, we ran 3 computers, 2 playing EQ and/or EQ2 simultaneously on dial-up, and it worked fine, 'cept during zoning, and either computer zoning, severely lagged the other one out.
Hope this helps, and best of luck.
Yther Ore.
As others have often recommended, if you know someone in your area with Sat connection, see if you use their computer, or take your's over there and hook up and try the demo out, and see how it works.
Even people using Wi-Fi often complain about the ping times, and I can't really see how you'd get any better on Satellite than Wi-Fi. Personally, I can't tolerate anything over 1sec ping (1000ms), but some can and adjust to it. And I've heard of people getting under 2sec pin on Satellite, but even with that I wouldn't be able to take it.
Modem play is stlll tolerable on faster computers. If the computer is slow also, modem play becomes very rough, but mostly only during zoning / patching. For the newest zones, I can't imagine how long the zone time would be on modem, since I haven't played EQ for at least 2yrs with modem. However, at the end, we ran 3 computers, 2 playing EQ and/or EQ2 simultaneously on dial-up, and it worked fine, 'cept during zoning, and either computer zoning, severely lagged the other one out.
Hope this helps, and best of luck.
Yther Ore.
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My load times were alwyas a joke in the guild. I once drowned while zoning into Oasis and took forver to find my body. It got better right ebfore I ahd to quit playing. My ISP believe it or not had a serious affect on my play. The local ISP had me pinging like crazy, switched back to AoL and my play was much smoother
Thanks a lot for the advice. Going to give it a go on dial up on my new comp when I get the anniversay package back, but I'll will preobably see if mt boss will let me try the demo at his house
Thanks a lot for the advice. Going to give it a go on dial up on my new comp when I get the anniversay package back, but I'll will preobably see if mt boss will let me try the demo at his house
You would have a lower ping time (assuming your phone lines are in decent shape and not ancient) with basic dial-up rather than satellite. With your only issue then being longer zone times (the speed of your computer greatly affects this from what I've seen) and horrible patch download times.
I don't think I could stand playing EQ on a satellite connection myself.
I don't think I could stand playing EQ on a satellite connection myself.
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Ill answer your question for you easy...Im on Satelitte Internet right now...I just got off a 4 hour group in EQ. Im the cleric, healing and timing is crucial...your latency is fine for EQ. Load time is affected more by RAM than your internet connection. Dial up might have a lower Latency but patching is a ******...after having Satellite for a couple weeks now this is what I can tell you.
EQ- Deff playable.
WoW- delay little worse than EQ, but its still fun.
WCIII - Playable.
Perfect Dark Zero - Perfect...dunno how, it just is.
Halo 2- run slow...no really, its not fun.
From what i've looked up everything but FPS's are fine...but those are the ones ive tried myself
EQ- Deff playable.
WoW- delay little worse than EQ, but its still fun.
WCIII - Playable.
Perfect Dark Zero - Perfect...dunno how, it just is.
Halo 2- run slow...no really, its not fun.
From what i've looked up everything but FPS's are fine...but those are the ones ive tried myself
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