Dungeons And Dragons Online: DDO News: Satellite Connections

Worried about your connection for Dungeons and Dragons Online? If you're on a satellite connection, there is good cause for this. If you've ever tried to game on one, you know the latency prohibits an enjoyable experience. Fernando explains:

The reason is that is that satellite connections have horrible latency. Because of D&D's fast paced combat model, we require data to take no more than ~ .2 seconds going either way to or from our servers.
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Unfortunately, using a satellite it will take ~ .25 seconds for data to reach your machine from our servers in the best case. (This is a hard limit derived from dividing the distance which the signal must travel to and from the satellite by the speed of light, so it won't get better any time soon either.) What's worse these connection have periods where the latency gets even worse, sometimes reaching closer to .5 seconds.

On the bright side, a 56k modem should be plenty to experience DDO, both on a latency and bandwidth front. Not sure what latency is? Read here for a rant on the topic.