One more week. . .

[flux1]

If you are getting satellite I'd recommend a bit of caution in getting excited over WoW. People have reported tons of issues getting the game working well on both Wildblue and Hughesnet. Especially after the change since 4.0.0 to how the game handles internet traffic. Those providers flag is at P2P traffic and throttle it back to lowest priority. This ontop of their service being crap in general makes for a horrible experience, especially during peak hour.

Hughesnet reviews: http://www.dslreports.com/comments/1678 forum: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/sat

Wildblue reviews: http://www.dslreports.com/comments/2554 forum: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wildblue

Tons of issues with both in the reviews and forums. If you want to do any gaming you basically pay $500+ and $60+ a month for a pile of garbage thats barely better than dialup.

If you want to play wow, check with an phone provider for 3G service like Verizon's mifi device. I've read several reports of people being able to game just fine on them with WoW. Massive patches will eat up a lot of your monthly cap, but they would with satellite too.

[zenga]

If you are getting satellite I'd recommend a bit of caution in getting excited over WoW. People have reported tons of issues getting the game working well on both Wildblue and Hughesnet. Especially after the change since 4.0.0 to how the game handles internet traffic. Those providers flag is at P2P traffic and throttle it back to lowest priority. This ontop of their service being crap in general makes for a horrible experience, especially during peak hour.

Quite a few providers had the same issues (worldwide), with unreal lag as a result. However there is a cheap solution that is gonna make your net into a trailblazer and costs 3-5$ a month extra: an ssh account (often referred to as proxy). Many services prioritize ssh traffic over the usual traffic. Plenty of australian wow players use such serviced. You can even test it for free @ some providers, but it will disconnect you every so few minutes until you get an paid account. But at least that should give you the opportunity to see if it works without an upfront cost. I forgot the names of the providers, but I can ask ingame to a buddy that is using it. Another option is to pm one of the aussies here and ask about it.