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I was wondering if any one here has the satalite broadband ( in the states) and how does it affect gaming??? I was reading and saw that it might possibly lag???? Does any one know ???


Thanks in advance peeps!!!!!

Satalite isn't that great period for the cost. It's not good for gaming at all.

Couple of friends have satellite...it's a little laggy all the time but not unplayable.

Sattelite is not great at all, in fact it's practically a last resort before looking to dial-up because most of the people who get sattelite usually travel alot or they live out of city limits so that better internet cannot reach them.

Sattelite usually puts out 125k top DL speeds and totall internet connection is about 1.1mps.

It just overall sucks. + if you have an ooberbad storm you won't be able to do anything on internet.

Many connection varieties have lag for all sorts of reasons, but it's really not that serious a problem with satellite. However, put bluntly, I don't think anyone should bother getting satellite unless they're in a situation where it's the only viable option available to them. It has numerous other flaws that don't exist with cables...

check out http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=40004


btw lag really depend on which internet backbone are using

to explain more check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone

Well sadly its my only choice until the cable company get there head out of there ass and stretches the DSL about 2 more miles my way
I can handle a little lag I guess but IS IT PLAYABLE??? I'm just not cool with dying 24/7 because of lag. i move at the end of this month and its gonna suck being without cable based DSL. all i can say is i'll have to see....

You should be fine if you're playing sro but dont expect any decent pings in a fps.

It really relies on the sort of lag you're having. Sometimes, it's not the connection that's the problem, but your computer's hardware and the available memory.
If you're running graphics/video settings that your card/chipset can't handle or are running too many memory-intense applications, your game can be pretty slow and jumpy.

If that's the case, close everything you don't need before running SRO. Once you've logged on, check your graphics settings. Surprisingly, shadows leech more than reflections in SRO, so one of the first things you should lower the settings for to test improvement is the in-game shadows. After that, it's really up to what your hardware is capable of.

oh no there no problem with my computer its a 3500.00 system with the newest nividia 7900( newest on the market ) duo core 2.66GHZ 6700 and 2 hard drives totaling 640 GB and the psysX card. i shouldn't lag

7900 is not the newest.
there are ALOT MORE NEWER and BETTER one like 7950gtx

even nvidia 8800GTX/GTS are out for direct X 10..

kthx bye
satellite sux btw

Well i know its the newest 1 because thay had to come replace it a few weeks ago i had a bad one. i cant remember what the number is Sorry

Actually, James was pretty right.
The GeForce 7900s from the GeForce 7 series were released in July last year, and the newest GeForce is the GeForce 8800 Ultra, which was released last week.
Between that and the GeForce 7900, there has been the GeForce 7950 GT, the GeForce 7950 GX2, the GeForce 8500 GT, the GeForce 8600 GT, the GeForce 8600 GTS, the GeForce 8800 GTS, and the GeForce 8800 GTX...
That almost 12 months of GeForce releases. If you were referring solely to the 7 series, the newest is the 7950 GX2, not the 7900.

8800 has been released for months..
its has been released last month in australia i guess

Whatever you were trying to argue, you "phail" (sic).
Firstly, Australia is not months behind with graphics hardware, particularly since the US film studios often come to us for our special effects jobs, and since we have a large number of mainstream console game programmers here.
Secondly, there are multiple 8800s. To clarify, the first was released almost exactly six months ago (Nov 8), HOWEVER, the newest was launched a week ago (May 2). Those are the international release dates.

If you are talking about satellite and NOT wireless, with satellite you should expect roughly a 200-500ms response time on top of what you would expect from a DSL connection. Satellite is about the worst type of internet connection you can buy. It is possible to get wireless internet in rural areas, this usually has a higher bit rate (usually 1-3Mbps range) and is in line of sight to the microwave tower.

I would only recommend satellite/wireless internet as a last resort. It is expensive, slow, and consistently has problems (weather, alignment..etc).

The internet backbone really does not apply in this situation. Most smaller ISP's usually peer with a larger ISP..These larger ISPs (verizon, bell south, TELUS, cogeco, comcast, Level 3, Global crossing, AT&T,...etc) usually peer directly with each other at a POP (point of presence). Most of the problems with satellite/wireless internet is between the customer premises equipment and the closest tower/satellite.