If you're a gamer, do not even consider satellite internet. The raw latency in travelling from the satellite to your local (what is it, Central Satellite Office, you know, up in the hills or something), which then bounces to your dish taking approximately 500ms. Add to that the fact that you have to use a 56k to upload and you can tack on another 100-200ms. 700ms is best-case, mind you. With satellite, you're looking at average pings no lower than one whole second. You'd have to use a very large RWIN setting to take advantage of the bandwidth, but there is no getting by in games with those pings..