Bad satelite connection-help...

lawlublue

Hello, i have been playing this game for alone time..and i use to live with my mom, who has DSL and ive never had a problem with lag or connection or anything, everything was just fine. Now my mom has sold her house, and im living with my dad... my dad lives in an area where the only available internet is this satelite ****. Everything just went to hell... i use ventrilo, and i use to ping around 50 or so, now im constantly pinging about 1500+. When i play PWI on my new internet connection, i dont get lag in west dist or anything, the only problem is that everything i do is delayed by about 5seconds or so. If i click to talk to an npc it takes about 5seconds to pop up. Same with atking mobs or atking pk players. Ill atk one, have to wait 5secs for the next atk to come through. Pretty much, this new connection has made the game impossible for me to play, i cannot pk like this or do quest, or grind, pretty much only do dailies. Im a lvl 92 bm on heavens tear, and im just wondering from all this, if there is any way i could do anything to help my ping or latency go down, or what ever is the actual problem here. Tech support would be great.. thanks

darthpanda16

I researched some for you and here is what I have found:

http://www.globalcomsatphone.com/hughesnet/latency.html

http://www.homenethelp.com/sharing/satellite.asp

Looks like even though the overall speeds are fine, the latency you get with MMOs and FPSe over a satellite connection makes it unplayable with games that require a lot of handshaking with our game servers.

cloezy1

Talk to your father and help him research alternatives to Satellite. Satellite internet, much like Power Grid Internet is reserved mainly for people who are much to far out to acquire DSL/Cable. Your community may now have some alternatives to offer recently. Internet technologies are rapidly advancing.

Check your local listings for alternative internet connections, or ask others in your community for alternatives.

Check with your city and find out if you have a wi-fi tower.

darthpanda16

I also know in parts of the south (United States) in the rural areas, there are some ISPs that have radio-like towers for wireless internet.

Research and see if there are alternatives like that where you are.

darthpanda16

See if any of these ISPs offer broadband Internet into your area:

http://www.socket.net/

http://www.localnet.com/

http://www.t1shopper.com/carriers/wireless/missouri.php

http://www.bbwexchange.com/wisps/missouri-wisps.asp

Depending on the area where your dad's is, you may be able to use the satellite to download and upload stuff (like our manual patches) and use a separate dial-up connection to play. It MIGHT work.

I have heard from some users that do such tricks. No promises.