hughes net satellite & eq2 does it work?

[Dadurua42]

as the title says, does eq2 work with satellite? I'm currently using dial-up. Where I live dial-up is the only service available. hughes net has a plan with 1Mbps down and 200 kbps up. Surely this is better then dial-up right? I've played eq1 and eq2 on dial-up with horrible lag, disconnections regulary and frankly i'm tired of dial-up! (I've seen the eq2 loading screen more then anyone in this game, lol) so if any of you players out there use satellite your imput will be much appreciated! thanks dadurua

[Maldach]

<p>Satellite will give you better speeds, but I don't think it's good for gaming. The travel time from the satellite to you computer and back is much longer than between a cable/dsl provider. I believe satellite users experience several seconds of lag due to the distances. Good for web browsing and such, but I don't think it is good for gaming. I'm speculating though, things may be different.</p>

[Brook]

<p>Yes it does work, but it is difficult to explain the way the toons seem to warp around because of the response times. </p><p>I was able to heal a tank that used it in HOF, but it was difficult to tell when we needed to stop because the tank seemed to pass through a door and then a second later was standing in front of you. I asked about what it was like and they said it was a pita to play that way.</p>

[TSR-JasonC]

I recommend against satellite.  The laws of physics and other related circumstances prevent satellite connections from being very reliable for MMO games. However, if you ensure that your satellite internet provider supports bi-directional DOCSIS over their link, then it should be reliable enough to be moderately passable... nature permitting, of course. Good luck on that, though. <img src="/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Noktaris]

<p>My girlfriend and I stay at my parents house for a few weeks every 3 months. They have Hughes net and I must say I absolutely hate the service and highly recommend against it unless all you do is browse the internet and dowload only a few files a day. They have a system that only allows for 220 megs of download a day before you reach a download cap called FAP or Fair Access Policy. Once you reach that daily cap your speed goes down to next to zero and it doesn't reset for a FULL 24 hours. They say it's around 56.6 modem speed but I would certainly take a regular dial up over that. Satalite is absolutely horrible to try to play online games with. There is horrible problems tying to actually connect to the game to begin with. City of Villians for instance would take me about 15 minutes of attempting to connect if I could even connect at all. And if you had to download a patch or something first them BAM!...there goes your 220 megs for the day and your downloading at around 1-2k speed.</p><p>They are a crooked company as well...They ripped my parents off bigtime. They signed up for a certain contract that allowed 160 meg dowload a day and if you reached the "FAP" limit then it would only take 8 hours for you to go back to your regular 50-100k or so speed. They changed it not long after to you get 220 megs to download before you reach "FAP" BUT!! it now take a full 24 hours to get your speed back. All my parents use the net for is Ebay selling and it's really not bad for them...but they can't do anything extra online if they wanted to. For instance watching some funny videos on YouTube quickly empty's their 220 megs for the day. My girlfriend and I are heavy online gamers and she is a Web Developer and Coder so she needs to have a good internet connection to work. And Hughes.net is aweful for that. My parents live out in the country so their options are limited to satalite and 56k,but they would have been better off staying with 56k in my opinion. And they would have saved alot of money from not having the big installation fee. Which I think was around $600.</p>

[batsu3]

I am in the same boat as you....dial-up and satellite are my only options. I called the satellite provider and asked them point blank about using it for gaming. They stated that since the satellite uses burst transmissions, you get large transmissions with pauses in between, sometimes of 1 to 3 seconds. My dial-up latency is usually between 250 to 400 milliseconds, so if you think lag is bad with dial-up, imagine having to wait 1 to 3 seconds to find out what is going on. That being said, I stuck with dial-up.

[Carryne]

A friend has been using Hughes net and has had nothing but problems with it.  If anyone else switches on a pc in the house she gets kicked out of the game and she finds EQ2 almost unplayable due to the lag.  She is looking forward to getting back to a dial up service as she found that much better.

[Dadurua42]

<span style="font-size: x-small"><span style="font-size: small">First of all Thanks for all the replys! Second, I went ahead and had the satellite installed. I have 30 days or money back guarantee so what the heck it's worth a shot, right! Tonight I played eq2 for 5 hours and Omg! it ran beautiful! I have a very short delay. But being on dial-up, the delay I can live with. Sceenery graphics rendered a little slow, but Npc's and mobs had no rendering problems there...Combat was no problem either...I harvested, tradeskilled, grouped & soloed...no problems what so ever....as for raiding, I wouldn't know how it would act in that situation as I am not a raider. I play a lot of hours in small groups or solo and so far it's working good for my playstyle on dial-up my 5 hour night, I would have linkdied at least 4 to 6 times..lag all though a battle...lag in every zone I went to.. I had none of that tonight! Anyway, I just wanted to give you all an update ....and so far, I'm loving it! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this satellite works, cuz, I really dread having to resort back to dial-up! Happy Gaming All! dadurua</span> </span>