Wildblue Question and help needed

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  1. Xenokai

    Xenokai Regular member

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    ok its not really a hardware thing but i do need a question anwserd i live where there is no HIGH SPEED intenet possible the boonies and all i can get is this www.wildblue.com <high speed satelitte internet> its gonna be 299$ to install and 50$ a month <its all i can get besides dial up> anyway i was wondering if anyone could tell me how well games like World of warcraft and ffxi and anarchy online would run on it please help i play MMORPGS and updating suxs on dial up and i need faster internet anyway can anyone help me?
     
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    besides download at high speed, does it have an upload at high speed or does it use dialup for uploads??
     
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    uploads are really slow heres what someone posted they got with the plan im getting :::.. Download Stats ..:::
    Connection is:: 578 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
    Download Speed is:: 71 kB/s
    Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
    Test Time:: Tue Aug 2 16:14:57 CDT 2005
    Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB download in 14.42 sec
    Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 68.48 % of your hosts average (222.19)
    Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-83R05MPUK


    :::.. Upload Stats ..:::
    Connection is:: 107 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
    Upload Speed is:: 13 kB/s
    Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server1)
    Test Time:: Tue Aug 2 16:16:41 CDT 2005
    Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 78.77 sec
    Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 100 % of your hosts average (222.19)
    Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-V601LD2TY
     
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    maybe faster than dial up uploads cause i get 3or4 kb/s speed on my dial up
     
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    i just want it to work with all the game my dial up worked with like ffxi and such ive heard guild wars plays great but i dnno i wanna get wow somtime
     

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