Is this fast?

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:49 am

...Yeah, to answer Hammer's question: that's a fine speed to download and upload, considering you're not sending pirated copies of Warcraft III all over the net or anything. And fuck you people, by broadband is teh gay. Goddamn "WE'LL PUT YOU ON THE SERVER WITH EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE TRI-COUNTY AREA HOW DO YOU LIKE 100 K DOWNLOADS???"

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:07 pm

128k upload isn't much, but it's better to leech anyway

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:43 pm

What is more important in gaming upload or download? Like, what effects ping times?

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:02 pm

Both do. Since you're sending information about what you're doing in your current game, is pretty important...
So upload is probably most important...

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:07 pm

Gotcha - 128 upload is pretty good for a game though, right? I mean i'm gonna see a difference with ping times then what I see now since im on 56k.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:30 pm

1 mbit/128 kbit is amply sufficient for online gaming. Faster connections are only really useful when downloading big stuff off the Interweb and even then, what you've got does just fine. For regular gaming and surfing, you're set.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:23 pm

Gotcha - 128 upload is pretty good for a game though, right? I mean i'm gonna see a difference with ping times then what I see now since im on 56k.

You should be fine, unless you're expecting to play EverQuest and have a perfect ping...

And yes, the difference should be more than obvious. Staggering should be the word.

Icabod · Post by **Icabod** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:47 am

The dyno for broadband.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:57 am

Scored 248 on download and 198 on upload?? I should only have 128, lol...

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:24 am

Made the test, conclusion: IÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â´m with The Hammer on BROADband.

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:17 am

Download: 1958 kbs
Upload: 101 kbs
On Charter Cable. My upload speed is supposed to be 256 kbs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:30 pm

Rogers, huh? My mom has Bell Sympatico Hi-Speed, and I don't think it's real DSL - you have to connect manually, and it has a USB thingie that plugs into the phone jack. I've been debating getting Rogers, since I love me some hi-speed cable access.

That said, I know fuck-all about computers. Christ, it takes me half an hour to set up a PS2.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:31 pm

Download ->1516 kbps
Upload ->5602 kbps

Is such a high differance between upload and download like unhealthy? Speaking from the same perspective as Hammer gamewise. Also, isn't it also important when gaming online to be with people of around the same speed? Like I notice that if I play with people with 56Ks that I get lag.

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:15 pm

You should be fine, unless you're expecting to play EverQuest and have a perfect ping...

Actually expecting to play Planetside with a perfect ping, seeing as how I ping 188 on 56k my expectations are high.

Icabod · Post by **Icabod** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:13 pm

The reason some people get higher or lower scores is because cable can get bogged down during high load hours.

I think that's one advantage of DSL, doesn't matter how many people are logged onto the same IP. But what does matter is how long of a line it goes through from your house to the nearest routing station, longer lines mean deteriorated performance.

taltiren · Post by **taltiren** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:23 pm

I'm at RIT and its not uncommon for me to get 10Mbps through the LAN and I can download as fast as anything will let me. But we have a dual OC3

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Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:44 pm

What's ADSL?

Killa-Killa · Post by **Killa-Killa** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:57 am

A faster DSL connection, Often refered to as SDSL (They are one and the same, right?) I've eseen speeds of up to 457 KB down (from Microsoft.com, of course) on an ADSL/SDSL. Either way, I have the fastest DSL connection available in my area. Guess why? My dad works for SBC! :twisted:

BTW, taliren, anybody with decent broadband will go as fast as almost anything will let you. Most severs/download centers will top out at about 35-65 KB.

Icabod, you are dead on on all fronts in all fronts in your post. However, a big part of the reason average cable users get such horendous servic eis that people use "Cable Uncapping software" that makes it so that that cable users hogs as much of the connection point's bandwidth as the cable lines can carry. However, cable does have an advantage for some special cases: Low end servers. Due to cable's relatively low cost and high upload speeds (Cable's upload is roughly equal to it's down, while DSL's up is at max 16.6 K ) it is perfect for low cost, low end servers. SDSL usually costs about $80/mo., but gets equal down/up bandwidth, so around 450K up and down.

EDIT: Wolfman, are you shure it's not the other way around? And in answer to your question, no. Having a high download speed is essential to good pings. You only need about 15-17 K up for perfect pings on almost every game. Unless you're hosting a server, that is. Remember: You aren't sending that much data to the server, but you're recieving a helluva lot.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:01 am

Hammer wrote:What's ADSL?

asymmetric dsl.... sdsl on the other hand is, surprise surprise, symmetric.
basically, the difference is that sdsl's downstream is as fast as its upstream rate(hence "symmetric"), but adsl's have a relatively slow upload rate.

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:22 am

Wolfman Walt wrote:Download ->1516 kbps
Upload ->5602 kbps

Dear god man! You could create a server out of that bad-boy!