I know very little about satellite internet but I do know that satellites do poorly with fast twitch gaming, which is what CoX is. Basically you click a button and an impulse travels from your computer to your dish up hundreds of miles into space back down hundreds of miles to their receiver dish and then onto the CoX servers to make the action happen, then the action heads back along the same line. While all this happens very fast is still comes off as slow for the game and performance suffers dramatically.
As to not being able to connect I dont know, but should you get online your gaming experience may not be up to expectations.
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I believe one trick that sat players have suggested in the past is to start multiple updaters and then choose the one that does connect after shutting the others down.
But you will still experience a large ping time, 160,000KM takes a while even at the speed of light, a bit over 1/2 a second (two round trips to the sat).
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I tried gaming on Wildblue for a little while when I had no other connection options. It was painful. You will not ever get a consistent updater connection, sometimes it works but usually not. Aside from that you will experience harsh ping times, I think I got roughly 2300 ms ping average on the second best package.
Now, you can work around 2300 ping. It sucks, but you can live with it. The problem is that satellite (I'm not super technical so this may not be true, or outdated) is not a streaming connection. It is not constant, but rather transmits a burst of data and receives in the same way. This means it may be 1300 ping for one button press and 3300 the next, averaging out to 2300. It's not pretty and makes gaming a chore.
If you're a patient person and REALLY want to game, have at it, but just remember it's always going to be that horrible and there really won't be anything you can do about it.
Well my main reason for wanting to log on from my Wildblue is to do some market management, maybe occasional trying other thing but probably not.
It might not apply to your specific situation but if you have cell phone reception, playing with a teathered phone as your connection works pretty well. We live far enough out to where there is no cable and dsl can't reach but we do have cell coverage. I've played CoH both via a dedicated aircard through a router and now via just a regular cell phone in usb teathered mode and both work quite well.
I haven't tried playing over Wildblue specifically but I have tried to play over satellite and it just didn't work. Unless you consider only having your screen update the action every two or three seconds to be working. Using a land line at 48k was a much more pleasant option.
I'm using a mobile broadband connection now and other than a couple distinct oddities (like the market window causing me to disconnect) it works pretty well most of the time.
Title pretty much says it all. I have the highest package available, but I can't even get the CoX Updater to connect.
So is it even possible to play over Wildblue?