I'm moving to an island that will have a very slow Satty/DSL connection. About 300Kkbs on a good day, they tell me. I'm pretty sure that will take games like COD4 off the radar, but can I still get on Live for other purposes with a pipe that slow?

Satellite? You're out of luck. It's not the speed that stinks, but the latency.

I'm moving to an island that will have a very slow Satty/DSL connection. About 300Kkbs on a good day, they tell me. I'm pretty sure that will take games like COD4 off the radar, but can I still get on Live for other purposes with a pipe that slow?

two critical factors are not known..... your upload speed and latency.

I would think if you could get above 128k up and latency below 100ms, you'd be ok to play most games online.

Edit>>> just re-read your post. If it's a satellite connection, you can forget Live for the most part. With latency in the 600ms range AT BEST, you'll struggle with most Live functions. No chatting or gaming..... I remember downloading demos though. This was via a Hughesnet system that I had.

Thanks for the info, bad though it may be.

Oh well, at least I can go scuba diving instead.

Where you moving?

Where you moving?

The Republic of Palau
http://www.janesoceania.com/palau/Koror's%20'IceBox'%20park%20in%20Malakal.jpg

...Wow

The Republic of Palau
http://www.janesoceania.com/palau/Koror's%20'IceBox'%20park%20in%20Malakal.jpg

Looks great except for the ireee feeling you are going to the Island of LOST :D

Looks great except for the ireee feeling you are going to the Island of LOST :D


LOL

I'm already teaching my son to climb trees to fetch coconuts. I'll start work there Feb. 1. Ugh, I hate moving - but at least I'll miss the rest of winter.

I played Halo 2 online on a satellite internet connection. Directway or something like that. Umm it was laggy but I could still kinda play I think it was harder for the other people to shoot me actually haha. voice chat didn't work. Buy hey, you are so lucky to be moving to a freakin island!!:eek: Internet would be the last thing I would care about if I lived there oh man I'm jealous:)

haha, i may be in the minority, but i'd rather live on the mainland and have good communications/gaming/etc

beautiful island though.

but with sat internet you're probably out of luck, i played online on my satellite connection when i was in the military, but we had a huge pipe with a backbone straight into germany, latency wasnt too bad.

It's a tough decision: live on a beautiful tropical island or have good internet? Meh, sunlight burns my skin like acid anyway I'm fine with sticking with good internet and enjoying sunlight the 3 months out of the year we get it up here in Maine.

I think I read that 256/256 is the minimum.

I'm moving to an island that will have a very slow Satty/DSL connection. About 300Kkbs on a good day, they tell me. I'm pretty sure that will take games like COD4 off the radar, but can I still get on Live for other purposes with a pipe that slow?

Demos, trailers, arcade DL's should all be doable.
Movies and TV shows in SD, maybe.
One. Big. Problem. Though:
LIVE content access is determined in great measure by IP address these days.
A lot of NorthAm features aren't available elsewere.
Sorry.
Nice beach, though.:cool:

Waking up everyday in paradise will help you forget XBL.

Look at it this way, you can chip away at all of the single player stuff.

BTW, what's with the holes in the ground? Looking for buried treasure? :)

I was thinking all the mounds of dirt were either buried bodies, or giant mutant moles. :)

Waking up everyday in paradise will help you forget XBL.
:)

You would think that, but I have a relative that lived on a small, somewhat remote island in the Bahamas for a good 10 years or so, and believe me, the highlight of his time there (after the newness wore off) was when they went from dial-up/ISDN to cable internet. When you're isolated and mostly cut off from the outside world and simply going anywhere requires a boat, plane or boo-koodles of money, internet becomes your lifeline to the outside.

I spent some time with my cousin down there several times and the island thing is awesome over all, but after a while, you start to want something new and the internet is your pipeline.

Not downing your move....place looks awesome and now I want to be your friend so I can come and visit you :D.......too Palau looks to be fairly large for an island. My example was about 1.5 square miles with a population of about 2500. Your place looks pretty big.

What are you going there to do?

Looks great except for the ireee feeling you are going to the Island of LOST :D

Say hello to Jacob for us while you're there, Skogan ;)

Thanks for the info everyone.

too Palau looks to be fairly large for an island. My example was about 1.5 square miles with a population of about 2500. Your place looks pretty big.

What are you going there to do?

Palau is about 25 miles long, I believe.

I'll be an Assistant Attorney General there.