Hi

Cybernet cafe is an Online gaming network includes games like World of warcraft, Matrix and counter strike, for customers to play online .. We are using a sattelite connection with a speed of 1 MG download and 256KB upload .. the line is perfect with browsing and downloading, but not good with online games at all. Cuz there is a big latency reaches from 3000 ms to 700 ms at minimum , and yet this is still not enough for a game to work proberly without lagging !

The provider told us they can't solve this cuz data travels through long distances and that causes latency in games!

So do u have any solution or can u make a dadicated (proxy) server to cache n provide proper speed and reduces the ping latency?

Thank you

dabootzi@yahoo.com

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hi there

a proxy server would be no use whatsoever in this case

bottom line is - dont run game servers or voip etc over a sattelite connection!

our latency is usually around 14ms

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IIRC, Your minimum round trip ping time is going to be something like 400ms at very best with a geostationary satellite connection due to the minimum distance of 35000Km out that they have to be in order to actually be geostationary; so the short answer is no there isn't much you can do about it bar replacing the connection with xDSL or Cable.

And at a guess i'd assume putting a proxy server in there somewhere would only serve to compound the problem.

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Thanx for the reply ,

So u mean there is NO solution??

and by what connection u have the 14ms??

major obstacle that there is no Cable provider locally not even a good DSL ISP !!

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Satelite is satelite, you would be better off with ISDN for gaming, or host local game servers only,.

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VoIP over Satellite is commercially available, or are you referring to setting up VoIP through a satcom data only channel ?

What´s your comment based on ?

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i was under the impression VoIP needed low latency, therefore sattelite is obviously not the best choice

however - i reserve the right to be completely 100% wrong

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you're never going to get a great connection with satelite, even with hybrid setups like isdn out satelite back which i've seen in remote farmland recenly

best is to try and find an adsl/sdsl provider who can get to you - thought the entirety of the UK could get ADSL with RA-ADSl @ 256/256 now ?

Chis: I get 7-11ms from home to the local gameserver

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And herein lies the problem. I'll be impressed if anyone here can get this man ADSL

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