Guild Wars 2

My question is can GW2 be played on satellite internet/ Xplornet and at which speed does it require to function for the PVE aspect? Sadly I’m looking for internet packages at rural ontario and have no access to cable or dsl currently at the location.

I wasn’t to sure to put this on the “players helping players” section or here so I’m sorry in advanced to placing this question on the wrong section.

That is a good question, I haven’t personally experienced satellite internet access, but I imagine that it is extremly slow as in latency is going to be high. What would you call acceptable latency. Latency is the amount of time it takes for you to input a command, have it travel to the servers, then have the result bounce back to you. For me anything over 1/4 second (250ms) is far too much, sometimes even 150ms is excessive. For PvE you can probably relax these numbers a little since precision movement/timing isn’t always needed where in PvP it is in higher regard.

I am hoping for 1/2 second worst case scenario. I have playing with 3 people on skype for instance on the same network before, forcing me to play at 1 second and that was unacceptable for sure lol

One second on satellite is about the best you’re going to do.

Only other way I can think of would be to use a 3G/4G connection to your computer using your cell phone connection.

I’m talking about a USB cellular modem, like these:

http://www.prairiemobile.com/wireless-modems-ontario