Playing PoE on satellite internet with 600-700ms ping.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Whats satellite internet? Satellite phone is like $1500 a month I know because my dad is a linesman foreman for PG&G and they give him one to be guaranteed to talk anywhere and he works in the sticks a lot.

Satellite internet is provided by companies like Hughesnet or DeepBlue. They basically install a satellite dish on your house/property and you connect through that, to a satellite, and then to the company's data center or whatever.

The satellites themselves are waaaay up in geostationary orbit (22,000 miles up), which means that the time it takes for the signals to bounce up there and back to Earth is quite long. The plans these companies offer typically have great bandwidth compared to other options (dial up or DSL) but have atrocious latency.

Generally the people with satellite internet are in more rural areas where Comcast or other companies can't afford to lay cable or build infrastructure. Also, satellite internet is generally considered to be horrendous for online gaming.

As for OP, I sympathize with him. He's got far more patience than I do for bad latency internet. The labyrinth is just something he'll have to live with, I think. Maybe try out some high-regen builds like RF?

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

I got over 400/sec life regen and those traps zip my HP bar like I got no regen at all. Some of those traps would have to be doing around 2500 damage a second, and that's just nuts.

Traps do percentage life damage, so flat regen is not a useful stat to look at when talking about it, how much life you have?

I have good internet and i still wish the gaming market would move away from online only bullshit.

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