cable modem in rural area, need help!

[missingzori]

hi, i'm new to this site, it was recommended by my isp. I need help and any advice someone can give me.

first off, i live in a rural area of alaska, where there are no hard lines in or out of our town, so everything travels to Anchorage by satellite. Phones, cable, etc...

i recently got a cable modem, through our local provider GCI, which is headed in Anchorage.

My dilemma is, that I opted for a 1000/128 connection and i wasn't reaching anywhere near speeds i would get in anchorage. I'm trying to play games online, and my pings are just way to high to play here.

Can anyone tell me what to do???
thanks.

[mccoffee]

Welcome to the fourums missingzori if you read read1st below me and answer those questions so we can better help u Tia. :D

[Kip Patterson]

Sorry, but you are pretty much out of luck. The minimum latency for a satellite connection is 430 ms. Yours is running 700 ms. There is no way to improve without violating Einstein's theory of relativity.

[mccoffee]

Originally posted by Kip Patterson
Sorry, but you are pretty much out of luck. The minimum latency for a satellite connection is 430 ms. Yours is running 700 ms. There is no way to improve without violating Einstein's theory of relativity.

Kip he or she is on cable n/m do i missed the satalite part.

[missingzori]

thanks for the replies! i'm really sort of bummed now though. i wish GCI would just build fiber out here, haha...