Satellite Internet, for my Dad

[linkmaster6]

My Father is looking into getting satellite internet. He lives in Newburg, New Brunswick Canada and he's a major BF2 fan. I was wondering if he would be able to play BF2 through his satellite connection, wondering about bandwidth and speed. Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[Mutilator]

No, NO, NO! Satellite Internet is terrible and there is no way he'd be gaming on it. From the service calls I've been on that customer's had satellite internet their ping times were all over 500ms, most over 1000ms (1 second), and the downloads were only barely faster than 56k at peak times with uploads that were even less.

I hate having to say this, because I know what it's like to have no other high-speed choice but satellite is easily worse than 56k dial-up due to the companies severely overselling their bandwidth and overloading the satellites. If he can even get ISDN, IDSL, or low speed ADSL they'd all be better. But odds are he lives out in the country too far for DSL and no cable access right?

You can go to DSLReports or a similar website and see how much satellite users dislike being on satellite.

 

[linkmaster6]

Thanks a million

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Mutilator
No, NO, NO! Satellite Internet is terrible and there is no way he'd be gaming on it. From the service calls I've been on that customer's had satellite internet their ping times were all over 500ms, most over 1000ms (1 second)....

Yup. I've never had Satellite, but I had Sprint Broadband, which is wireless to an antenna on a nearby mountain. Same result. Ping times were typically 1 to 1.5 seconds.

Playing anything but Starcraft or Chess online was a waste of time. Many game servers would kick me off as soon as they detected my 1 second ping times.