- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Here's the main reason, at pings above 300 or so, people don't lag, but WARP around your screen... so if you're trying to kick their asses, it's pretty annoying when they instantly move off to the side an extra 3 inches every second...
If you think aboot it, ping is measure in miliseconds, 800 miliseconds is 0.8 seconds... so that's not far off from a whole second of delay, and that's pretty fatal dude.....
One thing you can do is find a game with multiplayer ai and game on that. Most HL1 mods have a bot, and someother great games like the Battlefield series, Tribes 2 (freeware! w00t! so get this free game! great AI too!), and countless others.
Now, for HaloCE, some maps have bots included in them, but they're still pretty dumb... like standing still and dying as they shoot you kindof thing...
Since you have satelite, you could try getting a T1 connection... of course that costs you more than an arm and a leg, but more like a kid or two to go with it...
I was on dial up earlier this year for a few months cause I moved back home, found out I was outta range for adsl, got stuck on cable... I prefer adsl cause I would've had no limit on my dl and upload, but whatever, at least sometimes I get decent pings...
Hey, I've got's an idea! is there any internet cafe near ya? you could always just go to one and game like, bi-weekly online.. sure that's a little expensive, but at least it's better than getting banned or kicked from laggin'...