Gaming over Satellite...? Huge lag. (Quake 3)

I'm trying to pay Quake 3 with my Brother-In-Law. I have 5 Meg Cable and he recently got satelite from Hughes.net. He gets downloads between 300K to 500K depending on the speed test location. We were able to connect but the lag is huge and his ping was showing up as 750 to 999.

I used to play this game on Windows 95 when Dial-Up was the standard and never had a lag that bad, you would think it would be possible with Satelite.

When I performed the speed tests at his house one of the notes was that "Compression was on" could that be one of the problems?

Thanks

 

Sat. internet can often be worse than dial up for games. Bandwidth isn't a problem; its the built in latency of the data. This is the "lag" that you feel.

I don't think you will find any fast paced FPS very playable at all.

Here is an example of a write up. Basic, but makes the point:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Satellite-Internet-and-Online-Gaming:-Does-It-Work?&id=359077

 

That's what I figured, I did some more research last night and found the latency to be the issue. Never dug into how it worked, just thought faster woule be faster... Thanks.