Satellite connection? Anyone use it?

I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink, but I would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks Daveup

Sat is no good for gaming, lag times are way to high. "David Upchurch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b0ejgp$5tr$[email hidden]... > I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using > http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up > with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink, butI > would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks > Daveup > >

"Schooner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:BmAW9.242855$[email hidden]...

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> Sat is no good for gaming, lag times are way to high. > > "David Upchurch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:b0ejgp$5tr$[email hidden]... > > I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using > > http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up > > with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink,

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> I > > would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks > > Daveup > > > > > >

Yup. I tried out NR4 and NR2002 over a sat connection and the pings were measured in the thousands instead of the hundreds for the servers we could make show up. Satellite is terrible for anyhting lag sensitive such as online gaming.

I was reading about a guy in Denver that solved his broadband issues by using cheap homemade microwave antennae's daisy chained from his ISP all the way up his valley. I don't have the article but a goolge search may turn up something. Mitch "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:NcCW9.69418$[email hidden]...

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> > "Schooner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:BmAW9.242855$[email hidden]... > > Sat is no good for gaming, lag times are way to high. > > > > "David Upchurch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:b0ejgp$5tr$[email hidden]... > > > I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using > > > http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial

up > > > with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink, > but > > I > > > would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks.Thanks

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> > > Daveup > > > > > > > > > > > > Yup. I tried out NR4 and NR2002 over a sat connection and the pings were > measured in the thousands instead of the hundreds for the servers we could > make show up. Satellite is terrible for anyhting lag sensitive such as > online gaming. > >

yeah , remember when on SAT your packets are traveling 44,000 miles upstream and 44,000 miles downstream.. 88,000 miles total... Thats a long way to gooooooo.. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:24:53 -0500, "David Upchurch" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using >http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up >with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink, but I >would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks >Daveup >

You need to completely forget about Satellite for online gaming. It's a long way from your house up to that bird, and Satellite latencies measure in the SECONDS, not milliseconds. SAT is useless for online gaming. Sorry :( Larry "David Upchurch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b0ejgp$5tr$[email hidden]... > I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using > http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up > with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink, butI > would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks > Daveup > >

"Ride packet Ride upon my Mystery Ship....." Sorry, felt silly for a second there... :) Larry "Rich8" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> yeah , remember when on SAT your packets are traveling 44,000 miles > upstream and 44,000 miles downstream.. 88,000 miles total... Thats a > long way to gooooooo.. > > > > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:24:53 -0500, "David Upchurch" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >I'm very tired of getting discoed race after race. Is anyone using > >http://directv.direcway.com/, or know of anyone using it? I'm on dial up > >with no cable or DSL coming anytime soon. I know its slower on uplink,

but I > >would thiunk its still faster than the modem. Any thoughts folks. Thanks > >Daveup > > > >