Recently moved to West Sussex and fibre or even a good connection is not available where we are. Thinking of getting Satalite broadband but reading mixed reviews regarding gaming and latency. Anybody using satalite for gaming? Worth doing or don't bother? Any advice would be great thanks.
Satelite broadband and gaming
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You might get better responses in the networking forum. However, assuming things haven't changed drastically in the last few years, satellite for gaming is as Guest2 says, utterly useless. You might be able to get by with mobile in some cases but gaming-wise simple ADSL is likely to be your best bet if you can get it.
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Aunt had it somewhere near Norwich, 300ms was usual to London.
Limited by the laws of physics i,m afraid. Regardless of provider the signal has to go into space and back so you'll always have a latency around 250-300ms. There is caching and optimisation technologies available that can minimise the impact of the latency but they can do little for streaming applications which I guess gaming is.
I play a range of games , mmo to fps to flight simming.
So no go on the satalite thanks for the advice. BT are saying I can get between 6-11mb did a test on neighbour, they getting 5mb. It's my only choice I guess, better than nothing.
Thanks again
So no go on the satalite thanks for the advice. BT are saying I can get between 6-11mb did a test on neighbour, they getting 5mb. It's my only choice I guess, better than nothing.
Thanks again
Latency has nothing to do with the MBps. I used to live in an apartment that had a 2MBps shared connection, shocking for downloading but gaming wise it must have been very close to the exchange as the ping on speedtest was ~10ms (download would vary from .2MBps- 2MBps and upload about the same)
Ok, Satellite is great for downloading content, so movies and games, especially if you get one of the packages that gives you free over night downloading.
However if you want to game or stream anything, then don't bother.
What I would do is get onto EE and get one of their 50gb sim cards for £30 per month, if they still do it and one of these
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-4g-n12-wireless-n300-lte-modem-router-nw-090-as.html
Cos I was/am a EE customer im getting 82gb per month for £32 per month. Which is perfect to game and stream. I play WOW and have no ping issues and get around 20mb download.
However if you want to game or stream anything, then don't bother.
What I would do is get onto EE and get one of their 50gb sim cards for £30 per month, if they still do it and one of these
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-4g-n12-wireless-n300-lte-modem-router-nw-090-as.html
Cos I was/am a EE customer im getting 82gb per month for £32 per month. Which is perfect to game and stream. I play WOW and have no ping issues and get around 20mb download.
The idea you need fibre for gaming is utter ********. I've never had Internet faster than about 6mbit/s yet my pings to servers is the same as friends with 100mbit fibre connections. Big downloads are no issue either as you can just start the download as you go to bed and by the time you get home from work I can get 35GB downloaded.
Just don't try to do both at once.
Just don't try to do both at once.
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Correct to some degree, with Virgin they isn't much change. But with BT fibre, sky etc going from DSL to fibre drops ping quite a lot.
OP issue here is the connection between him and other players is way too far, his connection first needs to go into space and back latency will be shocking.
@Op your best option is finding an unlimited mobile network not sure you can get 4G unlimited but 3G should be good enough so long your 3G network coverage is decent in your area.
I'm with EE but again because I'm in the country I get a terrible EE signal. 4G pops up every so often. But great idea.
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I was very happy to get 64k dsl back in the day. Sounds awful doesnt it but its fine for gaming, latency not bandwidth is what counts and this is why the answer is No to OP
I'll just post this to pour some salt into the wounds
WOW.
Never heard of them before.
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WOW.
Never heard of them before.
Signed up interest
It is pretty nice being able to stream 8k and pulling down 100MB/s. I deleted GTA V (~65GB) to see how quick it would re-download and it did it in around 12 minutes. The problem them becomes disk speed and storage
Certainly worth the money IMO - works out at £44.50 a month
Back to OP though. As some others have said, your best bet is a mifi unit and simcard with a few GB for gaming. Gaming won't use a great deal of data
What's the point in getting a mifi device over an ADSL connection? Latency will be much higher, more jittery and have higher packet loss. All terrible for gaming. You also have to constantly be monitoring your programs and games cause a stealthy update could easily gobble all your data.
Your connection will be fine for gaming but depending on the rest of your usage, 5mbit might be frustrating. Are there any villages/towns/council towerblocks etc nearby that have fibre, and if so, do you have line of sight to said location? The reason I ask is because I moved to a farm with 1mbit bb, using ubiquiti, I now have a 200mbit vm connection from a neighbour half a kilometre away. I have a thread about it here.