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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:29:53 EDT

diablo1892 posted :

said by Finn:

I've never used Gaia Online for anything more than a forum. Whenever I tried the towns it was just a lot of floating names or failed connection attempts. I've never gotten Zomg to work either, but I haven't bothered trying in well over a year. All the other games seem to work decent enough.

EDIT: I downloaded a F2P game called Warframe from Steam, I've only played a few games but so far it's worked fairly decent, as far as gaming goes on Hughesnet. It's kind of like Mass Effect meets GunZ The Duel. A few games I've completed and some I've lost connection, unknown if it's because of Hughes or if it's because it's still open beta. Expect some delay when shooting/opening doors/ opening containers, but it's not too bad.

I'v been pushing to make this game work for a few days now.. Yes the game is fun and yes there are just a few small issues but thats only at the beginning before the real fun begins. I just now made it to 2nd or 3rd planet and about the 6th area and gameplay is a disaster.

When you join a area that no ones currently already in, you begin to be host.. whoever joins an area thats empty first is host. I just now joined one area and everyone that joined started complaining about the massive lag within seconds. I even saw some glitches on my side when opening lockers that hold items and if say someone with great connection hosts then I get all the lag but i see hick ups where the enemies will completely stand still and not do anything (same as players, or even disappear) hell i can possibly lag right on by every single enemy and they would'nt expect a thing and i would beat the game this way. (same thing as using a hacker but i don't use hacks)

I dont think its possible for me to continue anymore... at this point of the game i am currently at, it is just far too hard i can easily make over 50 or even 100 deaths all in the same area and same little spott where a group of enemies are at and it does'nt even have to be very big one neither. The enemies that i am defeating off at this part of the game will latch onto your character and bring you to the enemy (while bringing health down in the proccess) its just like diablo 3.. every now and then i get disconnected and game has to reconnect but before i even get connection back i could be dead already.. The part where the enemies grab a hold of your character is my biggest issue now and if there are MOE then ONE of those enemies in the group then it could be a complete disastor where multiple of those are grabbing on my charcter and my character getting drug from one corner to the next and so one (while the lag is visible) and you will be just sitting there thinking WTF im not even touching my keyboard or mouse.

oh and torchlight 2 online has been flawless lately.
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:39:51 EDT

diablo1892 posted :

said by Finn:

Thanks Finn i will look into this game in the am... I am about done with crysis 2 MP for good, players always banning me and harassing me, video tapping me and uploading a video of me lagging super bad.. Its fun the first time or two but after that it just gets down right irritating like a broken record player. No one likes to hear the same BS over and over!

I just now tried torchlight 2 out about a second ago and it don't upload and download very much data if at ALL.. So im thinking of moving my business over to there and warframe for the time being.

Happy gaming!(:
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:55:41 EDT

diragono posted : Wondering if anyone has tried Defiance yet? It looks really cool, but there isn't a demo or anything, so I don't want to waste $60 bucks and not be able to play it. If it plays out like Planetside that would be awesome, but I really don't know

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:31:56 EDT

Finn posted : I've never used Gaia Online for anything more than a forum. Whenever I tried the towns it was just a lot of floating names or failed connection attempts. I've never gotten Zomg to work either, but I haven't bothered trying in well over a year. All the other games seem to work decent enough.

EDIT: I downloaded a F2P game called Warframe from Steam, I've only played a few games but so far it's worked fairly decent, as far as gaming goes on Hughesnet. It's kind of like Mass Effect meets GunZ The Duel. A few games I've completed and some I've lost connection, unknown if it's because of Hughes or if it's because it's still open beta. Expect some delay when shooting/opening doors/ opening containers, but it's not too bad.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:56:32 EDT

Max Mouse posted : Really annoying when I have tell your friends over and over that you can't play COD online with you because you have Satellite then they go and say it should even with slow internet but they still dont get it..so I got to go and explain to them like 100 times about Latency and Delay from Home to Satellite

I just realized HughesNet started working with Gaiaonline virtual towns and Rally chat areas .... but still stuck on login with Gaiaonline Zomg's MMO

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:03:23 EDT

Finn posted : UPDATE: There is no longer a long wait to log-in in World of Tanks v0.8.4. I've played almost 200 games in the last week, and have had almost no connection issues. They also have added much better physics to the game so it's much harder to get stuck on some random rock or rubble. The input lag makes the game harder especially when trying to maneuver an agile tank, but I still find it quite fun.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:00:30 EDT

diablo1892 posted :

said by The Huntsman:

They haven't yet given me a reason, but based on what I've seen, I suspect that they're going to accuse me of hacking. I didn't hack. I wouldn't even know how to hack. I'm thinking this is somehow related to HughesNet. Maybe the web acceleration or the turbo pages? I don't know. I'm going to try to appeal the thing once they actually accuse me of it - should they accuse me of it - but has something like this happened to anybody else while playing an online game via HughesNet?

The reason why they say your hacking is because other players see you glitching and this says "hey your using some sorta trainer to make you teleport and move faster than others" The reason why your teleporting is because the ping is so outrages, sometimes connection will also get lost and then comes back witch makes you teleport. The reason why your moving so fast is because the game server your playing on can't keep up with your lag, your just too laggy.

I played crysis 3 on launch day and other players thought that i was using a trainer.. I have 1 question. How can I be cheating on a game that just launched?? tell me HOW?! I could'nt have been, the game just launched, my ping was saying 650.. and one other thing, if the players see you have 999 ping or whatever they will try to ban you, they will also try to record you while your saying your not a cheater but really lagging. Its extremely frusterating sometimes. No one wants to play against someone who looks like they are cheating..
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:28:52 EDT

Finn posted : FlyFF and Runescape are the only MMOs that I've played over a long enough period to know for certain you won't get banned for high pings. League of Legends and Runes of Magic also work, but LoL is hard enough without the input lag and RoM just doesn't hold my attention. Not to mention LoL and RoM have pretty large patch sizes that rely on P2P connections, it took me almost a week to patch each of them. I'm on the HN9000 so it may work better on Gen4.

It's a real drag trying to play anything over Hughesnet, I feel your pain.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:03:13 EDT

The Huntsman posted : They didn't appeal the ban. It's a good thing I was playing a free account, but now I'm worried about ever getting a paid account for an MMORPG in the future. If they think you're hacking, they're not going to let you appeal. If you show their system has cracks, it undermines them, so they'd rather ban the innocent to keep the guilty away. Pissed off, none-the-less.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:19:49 EDT

The Huntsman posted :

said by Finn:

They'll probably try to pin you with lag switching. You might be able to appeal it with screenshots of your ping times and explaining high pings are normal on Hughesnet. I've been accused by randoms on Xbox Live of hacking while playing Red Dead Redemption and GTA4 because of lag, but I've never been banned.

Thanks. I attached an image from two different tests showing my ping in the high 600s. Normally, it's in the 700s, but it's close enough. Reading the definition of lag switch, I don't think anything like that happened because I got my ass kicked in PVP and people certainly weren't standing still. But it does seem to be the most likely thing that I would be accused of. I know with certainty that I didn't do anything that violated the rules.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:42:41 EDT

Finn posted : They'll probably try to pin you with lag switching. You might be able to appeal it with screenshots of your ping times and explaining high pings are normal on Hughesnet. I've been accused by randoms on Xbox Live of hacking while playing Red Dead Redemption and GTA4 because of lag, but I've never been banned.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:49:58 EDT

The Huntsman posted : With Gen4 and the HT1000, I decided to start playing some games. I installed World of Warcraft, and it worked, but I never really liked it so I decided to download DC Universe Online. It played very smoothly and I greatly enjoyed it, until today... I started playing PVP and it worked very well - I won a few matches and lost a few matches - but a few hours later I discovered that I was banned.

They haven't yet given me a reason, but based on what I've seen, I suspect that they're going to accuse me of hacking. I didn't hack. I wouldn't even know how to hack. I'm thinking this is somehow related to HughesNet. Maybe the web acceleration or the turbo pages? I don't know. I'm going to try to appeal the thing once they actually accuse me of it - should they accuse me of it - but has something like this happened to anybody else while playing an online game via HughesNet?

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:57:30 EDT

diablo1892 posted : Yes, I have (with the HT1000, didnt have to disable accelerator) every now and then lag will spike up a bit but good play.. Game don't require much bandwidth neither, the download proccess for me toke from 3am (when it was released) till about 10 minutes to half an hour past 1:00pm so that totals up to being about 10 hours straight downloading and no pausing/stopping.

I have a video uploaded if anyone wants to check it out but i will warn you that you might hear a lot of skyping in the background so just ignore that. »www.dropbox.com/sh/eoktqy23mnkoh···2-62.avi

Also the video will skip, thats normal for i put recording on pause every now and then throughout video.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:14:45 EDT

Finn posted : You can get the Crysis 3 open beta on Xbox Live, if I'm up during free time I'll download it. I played Crysis on the PC and I wasn't really thrilled. I played Crysis 2 on the 360 and it had very good visuals, even on the 360, it just wasn't that fun in my opinion. If the multiplayer is anything like any other FPS on Hughesnet, it probably won't connect to games, and even if it did, it'd probably be unplayable.

EDIT: I downloaded the Crysis 3 beta on Live, took just over 2 hours to download a the 1.4 gig package. I tried playing with turbo page enabled and disabled but was never able to get past "Initializing playlists" screen. Maybe someone using Gen4 will have better luck?

Zzzz.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:38:10 EDT

diablo1892 posted : Anyone up for a little beta testing and see what old HN can do?
Here's my latest post on it: »Crysis 3 Beta

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:46:01 EDT

Finn posted : Sorry for the double post. I tried Borderlands 2 multiplayer and it was much like the first, being you can connect to people's games but it really isn't an enjoyable experience. You rubber band all over the place, making picking up items a chore, and the delay it which it takes to shoot at your enemies makes it difficult to get anything done. If you have extraordinary patience, you might want to try to play online. It's unplayable in my opinion.

I also tried Assassins Creed 3 multiplayer but I wasn't able to even connect to the Ubisoft servers. I also think that I've never had any of the uPlay stuff work either. It always says "Service is unavailable" or something.

The Dead Space 3 co-op demo was unplayable as well. Given that enemies rush at you, often giving you little time to react as it is, having network delay just makes it unplayable.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:22:34 EDT

Finn posted :

said by MmOgAmEr :
You have personally confirmed what exactly? That you can log in? Have you actually tried to play through the content in any of those games successfully with that much delay? Come on... it is ridiculous to say that those games will play "just fine." I guarantee you or anyone else would fail miserably in any pvp event or difficult pve encounter in those games you mentioned. You will be bound to doing errand type quests and other simple tasks like crafting or kill quests with easy mobs.

I would say it is good for social games, but Hughesnet doesn't even play some (like Second Life) well because they constantly stream and eat up your allowance.

There are a lot of other places on the net you can go and vent anonymously, try there. Hughesnet doesn't work well for anything, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment if you expect otherwise. The games listed here as "playable", are, but just barely. Truthfully, it's better than nothing.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:01:41 EDT

anon posted : You have personally confirmed what exactly? That you can log in? Have you actually tried to play through the content in any of those games successfully with that much delay? Come on... it is ridiculous to say that those games will play "just fine." I guarantee you or anyone else would fail miserably in any pvp event or difficult pve encounter in those games you mentioned. You will be bound to doing errand type quests and other simple tasks like crafting or kill quests with easy mobs.

I would say it is good for social games, but Hughesnet doesn't even play some (like Second Life) well because they constantly stream and eat up your allowance.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:39:57 EDT

Doc Lithius posted : Friend, I have personally confirmed the following MMOs work just fine under HughesNet:
- Rusty Hearts
- World of Warcraft
- MapleStory
- GrandChase
- Ragnarok Online
- City of Heroes (this one's kind of dead now, though)
- Champions Online
- Guild Wars
- Phantasy Star Online (emulated server only)
- Vindictus (solo play and towns only)
- Mabinogi
- Cartoon Network FusionFall (uses a load of bandwidth, though)
- PlanetSide (yes, I'm serious)
Others have confirmed even more.

But just like with any kind of online game, some work under HughesNet and some don't. I'm not arguing that Perfect World Online doesn't work. I can't confirm or deny that because I've never tried. But I do know that most every other MMO out there seems to work just fine. Yes, there's input lag. But for the most part, it's manageable.

So, yeah.
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:44:21 EDT

Finn posted : Then play an MMO that can actually be enjoyable on Hughesnet. Runes of Magic, Runescape, and Flyff all work decent enough. There is input lag, but it's not a major issue if you're used to playing on Dialup.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:52:12 EDT

anon posted : Reading the people saying that certain MMOs work just fine... that is complete BS. The best you can hope to do is log in a game and stand around and talk. Many times that doesn't even work. Maybe HughesNet can be somewhat effective with just social MMOs or something. But even then, games like Second Life are continually streaming something and it just eats up your allowance.

Trying to play an MMORPG like Perfect World (which is an older and less demanding game), I got totally destroyed in anything I tried to do. Timing is just so terribly impossible with the latency that you can not react to anything fast enough to make your gaming enjoyable. I actually gave up trying the satellite and used dial up with Perfect World and it was far more playable than with HughesNet.

To top it off, lately HughesNet is just constantly losing signal or something. Half the times I click on a link it just takes me to a broken page. So it isn't even effective for browsing the internet these days much less playing any games.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:51:52 EDT

Finn posted :

said by ladeeda :
Does anyone know if MAG actually works on the Ps3?

Even if you could connect to a game, you'd be so far behind other players in terms of latency that you wouldn't be able to get kills and would most likely be unplayable. I don't have a Ps3, so I don't have first hand experience with the game, but my experience with other twitch based shooters says it wouldn't be playable.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:17:18 EDT

anon posted : Does anyone know if MAG actually works on the Ps3?

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:40:18 EDT

Finn posted : It's probably a problem with the Gen4 service, not Microsoft. Games for Windows Live, and Xbox Live work fine for me, I'm using the HN9000.

I went ahead and bought Dark Souls. Put about 15 hours into it, and one part of the co-op multiplayer works, you can summon others to help you fight. It looks a bit wonky, but no ones said anything about lag. I haven't tried PvP, I don't stay human long enough to do invading or much summoning. Signs also work.

There are some issues that are really annoying, I enabled the leader board function in the options and my console would lock up up every 15 or so minutes. I disabled it and haven't had one lock up since. Also when signed into Live and playing Dark Souls, if you get disconnected the game will immediately return you to the main menu.

Once I finish my first playthrough of the game, I'll make a PvP character and see how that works.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:09:27 EDT

diablo1892 posted : I tried like heck one day trying to sign up for a windows live gaming account but it failed, some of the pages i had to keep reloading and search all over goggle trying to find a solution.. Now today I tried once more and none of it's making a lick of sense as to what it wants, i give up.

I bought a game from a store one day and was expecting it to all work, well it failed cause my computer was complete junk then i upgraded and solved the lag problem in the GFX and now i only have a problem with trying to get an account, this is ridiculous and stupid if you ask me. I bought the game microsoft! What do you want me to do, post my key's on here next?! Fine then it's: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX i'm done with crap, it gave me a headacke 5 years ago, it won't happen this time, i guarentee it!!
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:44:10 EDT

Finn posted : Even on a great connection, Bioshock 2 multiplayer doesn't work right, if at all.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:34:24 EDT

diablo1892 posted :

said by C0RR0SIVE:

I think someone is in lala land...

Xbox Live on Gen4 does NOT currently work. Xbox 360 CAN connect to the internet in diagnostics, but fails to reach Xbox LIVE.

Seems to be an issue with IPv4/IPv6 setup on the system. They are working on it last I heard.

Is this still happening? I just ask cause I have steam and keep trying to play my bioshock 2 MP mode and everytime i try logging into the live gaming account thing it seems to fail.

and yes i have everything setup, also disabling web accelerator does'nt work corrosive.
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Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:08:01 EDT

Finn posted : Has anyone tried Dark Souls mulitplayer? I'm considering picking the game up and since it looks mostly 1 V 1 when being invaded or invading, it looks like it just might be playable. I've never played it, it just looks like a game I'd enjoy. I'll probably pick Dark Souls up around Christmas, and I'll try it out if no one posts about it.

I just picked up Red Dead Redemption GOTY Edition. It plays fairly well online. Hiccups here and there, and occasional drop outs when more than 8-10 people join a session. It plays much better than GTA4. I don't notice much "sliding" except when I'm spectating a game. Definitely playable, even quite enjoyable.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:21:55 EDT

anon posted : Cool, thanks for the reply. So I can suspect the throttled rate will be the same or better on Gen4, that's good. And 15K/sec is still better than dial-up, though some things would probably work better on dial-up still due to latency.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:09:01 EDT

Finn posted : I'm not on Gen4 but when I hit the cap I get throttled to around 15K/sec with turbopage disabled. The only game I've tried while being throttled was Runescape and it worked, you can also still sign into Xbox Live. I don't get capped very often, but for me getting throttled isn't a huge deal, I'm more annoyed by peak hours. Usually around 7PM-10PM I'm barely able to browse the net and I'm unable to sign onto Live.

I'm not sure, but I think the Gen4 usage meters aren't running (At the time of this post) so there's no way to tell how well it will perform once you get throttled.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:25:51 EDT

anon posted : How terrible would some of these games that work play once you have hit your monthly limit? How terrible is the overall connection once monthly limit is hit anyways? I am a long time (all of my life) user of dial up and only tasting the sweet bliss of high-speed rarely. I have always wanted to try satellite internet but the pricing always feels sad compared to in-town prices of cable/dsl. But what can you do... I'm ready to try! Plus I do work online, which has always been a bummer with slow dial up...

I was thinking of getting the cheapest Gen4 plan. Even if you have a different plan, please let me know how your experience is after hitting cap.

Thanks for the informative thread!

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:02:45 EDT

waytim posted : On Gen4 HT1000

Phantasy Star Online 2 (JP version) Works flawlessly. The 600ms latency is negligible, as the enemy actions are client side, instead of server side as in Phantasy Star Universe. Has no problem with 12 person areas, or 50 people in lobby. Look for US release next spring.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:26:55 EDT

Doc Lithius posted : You know, with the advent of Gen4 and such, maybe this topic should be renamed to "Online Gaming on HughesNet 7K/9K" or something similar. Gaming on a much more stable (and faster) connection is, of course, going to get much different results.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:31:51 EDT

C0RR0SIVE posted : After playing around a lot...

Gen4 Echostar HT1000 system:
Xbox Live only works for me with Web-Acceleration disabled on the modem - should be fixed soon. Minimal lag, advertisements love to eat my bandwidth up, had to block several servers the xbox connects to for pulling those adverts.

Classic Battle.net games such as Starcraft: Broodwar, Warcraft III, and Diablo 2: LOD all work great with 650-750 ping. Sat down with a friend and played with out stutters for once over battle.net though latency could be seen by me, it didn't lag the game up much at all.

Starcraft 2: Haven't tried just yet, can't get into my account due to a password issue... Stupid Battle.net 2.0.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:37:33 EDT

Finn posted : I was able to get into the Xbox Live Beta, and get a prerelease version of Happy Wars. If my current information is correct, it also goes "Free2Play" on the 12 of October to all Xbox Live Gold members. So basically, anyone with a Gold account can download it for free, and earn achievements, and will be supported by micro-transactions.

This game currently works and is playable, however the usual lag will set you behind other players. If you time your actions carefully, you can compensate to a degree. It also may take several attempts to get into a game, as currently people with regular connections are posting in various forums about random disconnections. I don't know if Hughes' current issues are causing my matchmaking issues, or if it's the Happy Wars server itself, or a combination of both.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:22:17 EDT

C0RR0SIVE posted : I think someone is in lala land...

Xbox Live on Gen4 does NOT currently work. Xbox 360 CAN connect to the internet in diagnostics, but fails to reach Xbox LIVE.

Seems to be an issue with IPv4/IPv6 setup on the system. They are working on it last I heard.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:47:28 EDT

Finn posted :

said by impairedtrth :
Gen4 basic is 12.0mbps to 15.8mpbs for upload and download resaulting your ping down to 50 which isnt to bad for xbox live cause there servers setting is around 37ms for their ping.

:uhh:

I'd like to know where you're getting your source information at.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:17:32 EDT

impairedtrth posted : Guys there is a few games that work over xbox live that actually run kinda well.

Gta Iv + Episodes of liberty city = Depending on download allowance with hughesnet the more its filled the better it will run. Has some lag you dont lag but other players do and you lag too them unless its in between your unlimited region which is 2am and 7am which makes it run better.

Black ops or any other first person shooter will actually connection to a host if you have patience but experiance alot of lag cause they are thaicy games which means the lag you get is random might run fine then lag everywhere so unless you like dieing alot I wouldnt recomence it

TDU2 (Test Drive Unlimited 2) Same as Gta IV has some lag when someone enters the lobby your in game will intemently freeze for at least 3 secs maybe even freeze your console to where you have to shut it off

Thats all I know of we have Basic our download speed is like 0.53mbps and our upload is at 0.18 mbps and our ping is minimum 800ms moderate 1400ms and high 1763ms and our ping is stable at high

Pc gaming runs great just depends on the performance of the pc thats running the game at the time every now and then there is a little bit of lag to alot most the time none it just depends on the pc and the performance its running and the performance the game needs to run.

Theres goods news to all this you ready?? As of fall 2012 Hughesnet is launching Gen4. They come out swap your hardware (Modem and Dish) And it fixes all of this youll be able to play online Via Xbox live, Playstion Network PC or whatever you guys play. It only costs depending on your plan which for us its an extra 10 bux a month cause were not buying the equipment were renting it from them. But from what they say you on there original plans they have such a high setting cause of where your signal goes. Gen4 rapidally sends it plus the download and upload speed is mulitpled by 5 too 10 times what your plan has lowering the signal of ping making it better for online gaming.

Like lets say you have basic plan your upload and download should be 1.0mbps which is the same has time warner roadrunner basic I think. And your ping is around lets say 1400. Gen4 basic is 12.0mbps to 15.8mpbs for upload and download resaulting your ping down to 50 which isnt to bad for xbox live cause there servers setting is around 37ms for their ping.

Hope this helps guys. Do what I did and switch to Gen4

And oh yeah almost forgot if you experiance on xbox live that ppl can hardly hear you cause your breaking out you go to your dashboard and go to network settings go to advanced and go to where it says manuly enter dns address for primary put 8.8.8.8 for secondary put 8.8.4.4 thats googles public server it actually fixes that a little bit and also fixes your connection a little bit

Any more questions just shoot me an email at acheivement.unlocked@hotmail.com thats actually how its spelled no lie. Or add me on xbox live my gamertag is twistymcspliff

Happy Gaming!

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:48:27 EDT

Doc Lithius posted : Well, I ask because with the absolute latest update, supposedly, they finally optimized the bandwidth usage for playing online. I haven't had the opportunity to check myself, either, but I have been quite curious!

No worries, though.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:23:23 EDT

Finn posted : I'll look into that. I played for about 30 minutes but didn't notice a huge amount of usage at the time. Lately my connections been crappier than usual, and I can't connect to games I usually play. I'll check in a day or two.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:18:27 EDT

Doc Lithius posted : Just our of curiosity, does Minecraft still eat bandwidth faster than Pac-Man eating dots on a Power Pellet-induced rampage?

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:02:56 EDT

Finn posted : Minecraft for the PC works on some servers and is playable. Dedicated servers obviously work the best. It is playable but you'll have a really hard time hitting other players if you're trying to play PvP/Hardcore.

Realm of the Mad God works and plays fine.

Lost Saga connects. However it is unplayable because you're behind everyone in terms of connection speed, so you're constantly getting hit while being unable to react. Also a bubble pops up over your characters head that says "Slow Connection" which annoyed me.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:02:16 EDT

lizzysl posted : I have played SWTOR with Hughes Net for several months now. However, I cannot play during peak usage times (4pm - 8pm) or when there is a storm, or recently when the wildfire smoke is hanging in the air. The best time to play is the morning hours.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:46:07 EDT

anon posted : Has anyone tried HughsNet with Facebook game Battle Pirates?

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:30:58 EDT

Fuji posted : Tera Online (Playable) - Expect input lag. No disconnect's.

Tested 2AM-7AM(Free Time) Play's almost perfect. Minor Input lag.

Tested 8AM-7PM(Peak Hour) Minor Input Lag, From 8AM-4PM, Moderate Input lag from 5PM-7PM.

Tera Launcher Issues - This is a pretty common error. Sometimes the launcher wont load after the first inital patching. To fix this, Disable you're internet connection, Click the Tera Launcher, Wait 1-2 mins to get the error "Connection cant be made" Renable you're Internet connection. You will be able to login in now.

This error happen's 50% of the time. Just a work around for when it happen's

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:51:47 EDT

Finn posted : These have all been tested during "Free time", early in the morning, and noonish. Those appear to be the best times to play games on Hughesnet. Around 8-11PM CST appears the be the worst time to play. I also try out all these with turbo page disabled and enabled, but disabled appears to work the best.

World of Tanks works. It has a heavy input lag, but it is playable if you can get used to the lag. Apparently there is some kind of lag compensation that kind of makes the playing field even more or less, even so you'll have a hard time hitting the more agile tanks. For some reason log in can take a long time, I've noticed that using the ipconfig /flushdns before you log in seems to speed up the login process.

Flyff works. Moderate input lag. Game randomly disconnects sometimes, and I'm unable to log in between 8-10 PM CST.

Runes of Magic works, patches are usually big downloads though so it's best to patch during "Free time". Little input lag, much snappier than other MMOs on Hughesnet.

League of Legends works, the input lag is more annoying than usual, be prepared to issue commands twice.

Runescape works okay, just wouldn't PvP in the wilderness if I was you. Like any other game on Hughesnet, there is an input lag, but it didn't bother me much because I used to play Rs on dialup all the time.

GunZ will connect to games, but is unplayable. You may register hits on your end but you won't actually be hitting anyone. That and people whine about your ping.

Dragon Nest works, and is kind of playable, becomes very difficult at higher levels. While on your end you might dodge an attack, the server will still register a hit on you. Makes some bosses harder than they actually are.

Soldat kind of works, but overall is unplayable. Most servers will kickban you if your ping goes over a set amount. You might be able to play on "climb" servers but the lag might make it look like you're using a hack. Was playable on Dialup so I thought I'd try on Hughesnet.

I tried Minecraft on the 360 and I wasn't able to connect to anyone, and no one was able to connect to me. I tried with 3 different people and results were the same. Minecraft over Xbox Live seems unplayable to me.

Battlefield Heroes doesn't appear to work. It'll search for a game and say it found one, after a minute it'll say connection lost.

APB Reloaded connects, but "rubber bands" too much to be playable. I played it for about an hour before giving up. I was constantly bumping into objects and running into walls and being killed before I could tell I was even being shot at. Unplayable.

I'll add more games when I can.

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:01:32 EDT

r1cky posted : the coop missions on Red Dead Redemption work good on hughesnet on xbox live but on free roam the other players can see you lag and sliding around and smackdown vs raw 2009 on xbox live works decent when you join another player in a 1v1 match but if the other player is using and created wrestler you lag horribly and saints row the third works great you can play co-op with other players and you can play whored mode and minecraft works on the xbox 360 but you cant join other peoples games but people can join your games and for some reason when your playing with somebody you are invisible

Re: [Networking] Online Gaming on HughesNet

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:58:28 EDT

anon posted : Dead island for xbox works pretty good! never really had any troubles except maybe xbox disconnecting. played with a few players for like 4 hours with no complaints so it must play good on their end too.