Originally Posted by
LordSpaztic
After living in rural Alabama for 3 years and had to suffer the horror that is hughes net. I must advise you RUN THE FUCK AWAY AND STAY AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE. I'm not joking, or kidding, or even going to sugarcoat it. If the internet is a major part of you life, you need to move again, and stay out of rural areas. Satellite Internet is the most horrid joke of an ISP. Don't think you're just going to be laggy or slowed down experience because it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't matter what speed you have, it's all shit. EVERYTHING, no matter what will have a 1 to 3 second lag, not because of speed, but because of physics. Packets to, then from space takes a lot longer than your average cable in the ground.
You're also subject to "FAP" (No seriously, It's called that.), It means Fair Access Policy. This will governor your entire internet browsing life. You cannot exceed over x (depend on how much you shell out) megabytes a day/week of downloaded content, if you exceed you're fucked with slower than dial-up speeds, and barely able to even stay connected to simple chat programs like Gtalk, or MSN. Sites like youtube, torrenting, video streaming, deviate art, downloading a wow patch, or even a new expansion will most likely exceed this very quickly.
You're also subject to what I'd call "the random shit" factor. You're never stable. Could be a clear blue day and your satellite dish is point towards the sky at the best possible angle and then BOOM, DC'd from the net for an hour for no reason, you're also going to become the weatherman and start cursing, screaming, and downright wanting to tear your hair out when it rains. You'll also want to shoot all the birds in your local 5 mile radius because you'll be DC'd from the net because one flew past the transmitter.
Also, Might just be hughes.net, but it keeps a list of the sites you've visited and how much bandwidth was used there on their servers aswell. I hope you don't mind sharing your fetishes with the Tech Support you'll be calling to ask why the hell your internet is out when it a clear sky, or when you've magically gone over your "fap" limit because you wanted to watch a youtube for all of 5 minutes.
Moving on to more WoW related problems.
Depending on a server: You may not be able to enter certain areas due to extreme packet travel time and end up DC'ing because your modem can't send or receive them fast enough and starts to choke up. You can notice this by your modem randomly going out on a clear blue day.
Also, no matter how fast you move, if you're going to PvP or Raid. Give up. You'll always take excess damage from everything, because Blizzard's servers are going to assume you're still standing in that horrendous green shit on the ground till 3 seconds AFTER you've finally moved out of it.
Brightside: If you out dps people on skada or recount, laugh. Not only that, but rub their faces in it. They deserve it for all the hell you go through trying to chain those GCDs together. =D
Seriously, if you get Satellite internet, get new hobbies. It will drive you insane, and rape your wallet of all the green stuff in it.
If I think about it, I think after all I've paid hughes.net in those 3 years, I could have paid a phone company 60 miles in the nearest town to run a new cable in the ground for DSL. Even if they charged me 1$ per foot of cable.
I hope you find this information. Stay away, don't get bent over a barrel like I did.
(Yes, Yes, I might get banned for swearing a lot but eh, I said I wasn't going to sugarcoat it.)