Is a satellite net connection enough?

Landostander - Lost City
Landostander - Lost City Posts: 16 Arc User
edited December 2008 in Support Desk
This coming week I'll be out of town and away from my usual cable internet connection. Instead the place I'll be staying at has 'high speed' internet from a satellite provider. I've been told before that this sort of connection suffers from a great deal of latency. So is it best just to assume that any attempt to put some time into PW is doomed to failure or might this connection be enough to continue my questing even in this new locale?
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  • gattsuru
    gattsuru Posts: 3,184 Arc User
    edited December 2008
    <Tech Jargon>Satelite connections have to send a speed-of-light communication with a point on the Clarke Belt, a ring of space 22,000 miles directly above the equator. The signal must then be sent back down. Bidirectional connections, such as the TCP that ElementClient uses, must be sent over that path twice. That means that, at minimum, you can expect round trip time of ~0.45 seconds, typically more due to ground-based routers, switches, links, and server rates.</Tech Jargon>

    It can work. Perfect World is very latency tolerant. You're not going to get the sort of performance that you do on a grounded connection, and your performance will be reduced as a result. It's not ideal.
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