i had satellite and played ddo with it for about a year and a half. certain things were certainly not viable like being an effecient healer. you have to anticipate damage being taken and basically heal before it happens against really dangerous bosses. which can often mean you overheal and waste sp. my pings werent as good as glenaths (1500 minimum and usually avg 1900). and then there were always complete spikes when i couldnt move at all or do anything. so i mostly stuck to melee chars or ones with little responsibility because you cant even rely on being able to hit things or tank because of random DCs. i had the worst satellite provider though in hughesnet. whatever you do avoid them. i paid $200 for installation, $100/m for 1.5mb down/256kbps up. and only allowed 1gb a day. on a 2 year contract and my speeds never reached that. $400 to break contract and about $400-$500 to replace the transmitter if it gets blown off your roof/pole during a storm. for comparison of how shitty that is i currently pay $30/m for cable that gets 10mb download speeds... with free installation lol. and it pretty much always operates at max speed. if you dont mind not being able to do important raid roles or playing at all on some week nights (peak usage hours) and paying a ton of money then i guess go for it . also wifi hotspots are essentially the same technology but with less stable connections for gaming. i tried other games on satellite and they actually performed a bit better. WoW wasnt laggy at all or spikey (but the game itself is boring as shit) and swtor was only bad during peak satellite hours. i consider myself to be better than 99.9% of ddo players so i got by most of the time. (basing this after playing once i had cable and was unkillable and led everyone in kills everywhere. suck it naysayers)

someguy wrote on Jul 19^th, 2012 at 5:03pm:


Well, when you play for two years as an average player who basically has to predict the future when playing, when you finally catch up to the rest of the world tech-wise, you notice your response time is godly.

I'm a half hour drive from the nearest city so the actual CO is quite a ways away, they use booster boxes as well and while my uplink is terrible (25-40 kps) the download isn't so bad (250-400 kbps) now I know if you have fiber that sounds terrible but for where I live its pretty good.  Interestingly I've heard numerous times that its better than what most get in town (the phone lines are just horrible in town, they put in new fiber telephone lines to us a few years ago) so line quality is the deciding factor it seems.

Soul wrote on Jul 21^st, 2012 at 1:05pm:


Again, this is only true if you are using Sprint's towers. Sprint has a horrid network and relies heavily upon cross carrier roaming. Their "unlimited" is not unlimited when using other providers towers. However if you are lucky enough to be in an area where you have solid access to a Sprint tower then this would definitely be your best option at this time.

Smrti wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 5:47am:


lol fuck you and your back handed compliments! 95% pre cable. at least! just unreliable. hahaha