Re: Your two cents...
FYI, IF you are indeed using a satellite connection with a satellite in geostationary orbit then the satellite is around 22k miles away from you.
With a unidirectional satellite connection (upload via modem, download via satellite) this means that the downloaded data has to travel to the satellite, and then to you, a round trip of 44k miles which, at the speed of light, will take around 1/4 second (250ms). This is on top of your modem-isp latency AND the latency from your isp to demise servers.
With a bidirectional satellite connection (send and receive over satellite), both upload and download take place over the satellite. As such there is satellite overhead of 500ms (4x44k miles at light speed) on top of the latency from the isp to demise.
HughesNet offers the bidirectional service, and as such your ping cant be less than around 600ms (including compression overhead), so yes, you would be better using a dialup modem for playing UO.
korruptionofdemise;452776 said:
2. Your curiosity about me will be ended soon enough, it wont take me long to get out into the pvp scene, however my ping fluctuates based on where I happen to be playing at the time, and sadly I use a satalite connection. Hughes net is the pits... so at any given time i could ping anywhere between 30 and 2058.. my max a few minutes ago was 3000.
FYI, IF you are indeed using a satellite connection with a satellite in geostationary orbit then the satellite is around 22k miles away from you.
With a unidirectional satellite connection (upload via modem, download via satellite) this means that the downloaded data has to travel to the satellite, and then to you, a round trip of 44k miles which, at the speed of light, will take around 1/4 second (250ms). This is on top of your modem-isp latency AND the latency from your isp to demise servers.
With a bidirectional satellite connection (send and receive over satellite), both upload and download take place over the satellite. As such there is satellite overhead of 500ms (4x44k miles at light speed) on top of the latency from the isp to demise.
HughesNet offers the bidirectional service, and as such your ping cant be less than around 600ms (including compression overhead), so yes, you would be better using a dialup modem for playing UO.