I have wild blue satellite internet. It cost me $300 for the dish and $50 a month for the basic service. I'm on the Laredo gateway which is apparently the lemon in the bunch. I'm not too happy with it really but it still beats dail up. I get download speeds of around 400-500kbps and uploads of 60-100ish. Here's a comparrison from wild blue uncensored (an unofficial website)
http://www.wildblueuncensored.com/sitenews.htm The hughes net business package cost about 3 times as much for the dish and $100 a month but according to this review is supposed to be rock solid although the latencys may be a bit higher. I'm pretty much sh*t out of luck for games either way. I'm running a business from home and I've lost some money due to weather and gateway related outages on wild blue. As outrageous as the pricing of the hughes small business package is I've probalby lost enough to have paid off the difference already. I'm tempted to harrass the phone company and see if I can push for dsl or t1. For the price of upgrading to the bigger, supposedly weatherproof .98 meter dish that comes with the hughes net small office package I'd think the phone company would be willing to lay down a little clean cable. That's $1200 a year plus $800 or $900 fo the dish. Of course this wouldn't be for the sake of gaming but it would be nice perk to be able to play dod every once and a while. My spectator list doesn't seem to be well populated. Spectating wouldn't lag a sever would it? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I'm going to go check my console commands now and see if they match your specs. I'm not sure how to open the config.cfg file directly. I found it but it asks for a program to open it.
From: "kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [hlds] Is it possible to play day of defeat on a satellite connection? Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:04:48 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] What type of Internet do you have now and who's your provider. I have heard the same thing about satellite Internet, it just cant push a constant steam of packets enough in order to hold the connection for online gaming. But ill do some research and see if I can't find out if theres a way to get it done. I have a 26 slot DOD server in LA ca. You can try to connect to it and maybe theres other things we can do to get your pings down to were you can at least play a little. Try setting your rates in your config.cfg to the following. Rate 3000 to 5000 you may want to try lower like around 2500. I'm not sure how low you can go. Cl_updaterate 10 or 20 don't go any lower then 10. Cl_cmdrate 10 to 20 don't go any lower then 10. Also you might want to disable all of the other things that lower FPS too just incase you are able to connect and play some. Heres my servers IP address 64.69.32.190:27015 www.ethugsrus.net Good luck I know it sucks not to be able to play such an awesome game. I been addicted for 6 years. -------Original Message------- From: Pit Gee Date: 08/22/06 22:45:56 To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds] Is it possible to play day of defeat on a satellite connection? I've heard first person shooters weren't "doable" on satellite internet due to latency but I've also seen some claim that it can be done. I've moved out in the "boondocks" and was pretty much resigned to no dod or any other games, however every once and a while I really get the urge to play. What a great game! The server screen indicates pings of 500 plus and I usually can't even log on to a server. Presumably they have the pings requirements set lower. I'm wondering if there is anything I can do about this or if there is anyone who has a list of servers with less stringent ping requirements. Every once and a while I just really get the urge to play. Are there tweaks I could use to reduce my ping time or am I pretty much stuck at about 6 seconds of delay for the uplink? I'd even settle for spectating a game every once and a while if I can't play but I can't seem to even get on to a server at all. The "nuclear fallout.net" servers seem to all kick me or rather not let me on. I'm not sure of this server host now dominates most servers or if it is just that silly kind of lagging message bug that seems to occur in the server host window. I wonder what ever happened to that internet over the power lines technology they used to talk about so much? _________________________________________________________________ Got something to buy, sell or swap? Try Windows Live Expo ttp://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwex0010000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://expo live.com/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
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