said by zeddlar:Been playing EverQuest, EQ2 and WOW on Direcway and Hughesnet for 9 years now and when the satellites get a bit crowded like spaceway 3 is now then yes it amkes things not work or not work well in the least, but it has only been that bad for 4 or 5 months and just because of service upgrades and the fact that tons of 7000 users are switching and because another satellite company went belly up and HN offered their old customers a special deal to switch to HN. As soon as Jupiter fly's, I doubt anyone will ever see pings over 1000 consistantly again simply because of the large capacity of that satellite and the fact that more satellites like jupiter are planned soon enough to keep Jupiter from likely reaching capacity. And I am a former business customer of HN as well and I can tell you that even after my speeds went in the toilet on my old business system, it was still pinging under 900ms so HN commercial does very well too.
I almost upgraded back to a business acount but they were going to charge me another $600+ to do it and I decided that if I am going to shell out that kind of cash again, then I am going to wait and do it on Jupiter.
BTW, I will add that FPS and twitch games like that are unplayable on HN, but there are many mmorpg games that will work great on Jupiter.
True, True.... Ive been able to play several mmo's, but it just is not the same.... that being said, I am happy to atleast play what is playable!!! like wow, eq2, and even metalstorm some times.
Still, HN commercial ping times around 900ms?? I wounder why that would be, as other competitors commercial offerings pings are consistently lower. At least the ones Ive dealt with. ... What s up with that?? Having low ping, even if your dl/ul speeds are lower actually speeds browsing etc up. My Spacenet 1meg by 1meg at work rocks!! pings average 600-625.... I ve even seen them as low as 480!!