Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I wasn’t sure which section this belongs in so I hope I guessed right. _

I live in an area that is very far outside the reach of DSL and cable internet providers. I searched everywhere and ended up settling on hughesnet. The problem with this is my ping is about 700-900 due to the fact satellite internet obviously sucks for online gaming.
I have been looking for better options and have found only one. The EVDO from the wireless tower nearby, which offers the 3G network. I have a few days left to cancel my contract with hughes before they charge me a $300 disconnection fee… -.-

I am unfamiliar with much of this so I wasn’t sure which one would be better for gw2, and make the game more enjoyable with the ping.

Hughesnet = download: 10mbps —--upload: 0.5mbps — Ping: 700-800
EVDO = download: 1mbps ---upload: .5-1mbps—- Ping: 100-300

So my question is, if it was your choice, what would be the best option to go with for gw2? It takes about 2-4 seconds for my abilities to go off right now. Any help or advice is appreciated.

Have you tried running a test on www.pingtest.net? It’ll give you a score that you can use to compare the two providers, taking into account things like ping time, jitter, packet loss, etc. The closer to a score of “A” the better for online gaming. You can try to choose a test server closer to the physical location of the GW2 servers (though I don’t know where they are).

I already mentioned the ping of both providers. I don’t think running another ping test will help me decide. There isn’t even anything online that tells me which one is better. No one will give me an opinion. I have already done all the testing, I just don’t know which one is better.

Definitely go for the lower ping provider. Faster download speed is nice, but this doesn’t help much at all during gaming.

On the other hand, I’m not familiar with how much bandwidth GW2 requires. I use a 3mbps line and it works fine for GW2.

For gaming lower latency/pingtime is best. EVDO will be better. But you didn’t list what the ISP bandwidth cap is. Often wireless/mobile provider has very low caps. You will need a decent amount to be able to update the game on patch day etc.

Thank you for the replies.

I have been monitoring our bandwidth every day… it’s terrible with the satellite internet. They have a limit of 10GB per month and we can barely do anything. I have found a way of monitoring how much data usage GW2 takes per day running it on 2 computers for about 6-8 hours. It isn’t very much at all, but the data cap basically makes it where gw2 is about all I can do with it besides youtube.

They told us that we had 10gb during day hours per month, and 10gb off peak time between the hours of 2-8am. Even having said this, it is showing unlimited at night… so I am not sure what the deal is, but so far the service is pretty unsatisfying for gaming. I am completely unable to dodge things in the game, and it happens so often where I keep warping back to the position i was in a second ago after I move. It keeps getting me killed.

I am starting to think that EVDO would be the better option. I saw on the website they had unlimited bandwidth for a bit more money. I am going to get more information on EVDO.

The installation fee is large, so this choice hasn’t been easy. I appreciate all the advice. ^^

Noctura.3908:

Thank you for the replies.

I have been monitoring our bandwidth every day… it’s terrible with the satellite internet. They have a limit of 10GB per month and we can barely do anything. I have found a way of monitoring how much data usage GW2 takes per day running it on 2 computers for about 6-8 hours. It isn’t very much at all, but the data cap basically makes it where gw2 is about all I can do with it besides youtube.

They told us that we had 10gb during day hours per month, and 10gb off peak time between the hours of 2-8am. Even having said this, it is showing unlimited at night… so I am not sure what the deal is, but so far the service is pretty unsatisfying for gaming. I am completely unable to dodge things in the game, and it happens so often where I keep warping back to the position i was in a second ago after I move. It keeps getting me killed.

I am starting to think that EVDO would be the better option. I saw on the website they had unlimited bandwidth for a bit more money. I am going to get more information on EVDO.

The installation fee is large, so this choice hasn’t been easy. I appreciate all the advice. ^^

EVDO looks like the better option of the two even though the down link is ridiculously slow for today’s normal internet standards. The lower ping will definitely make your GW2 experience better, however the time it takes to download anything will take siginicantly longer.

Having a bandwidth cap is also not favorable since some of these GW2 updates are pretty large. The client alone is about 15GB right now.