DSL Gaming

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:44:43 GMT, "Gamer"
wrote:

Earthlink is offering 1.5 downloads and 128 dsl uploads max for a
reasonable price. Is that good enough for gaming? I'm willing to sacrifice
a little file download speed for good, reliable pings. I'm using comcast
cable now and around late afternoon until midnight my games are absolutely
unplayable due to bad connection. This is something new and I suspect that
the recent worm outbreaks may be eating up local bandwidth when people come
home from work and fire up their computers. My main concern is the 128 max
upload speed? Is that fast enough for practical use and gaming? I really
don't want to stay with the cable it is HORRIBLE.

~J

It should work fine. I have the same DSL speeds and play with no
problem. Your cable bandwidth is hammered pretty heavy right after
dinner and until bedtime so gaming then can be hopeless.

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:44:43 GMT, "Gamer"
wrote:

Earthlink is offering 1.5 downloads and 128 dsl uploads max for a
reasonable price. Is that good enough for gaming? I'm willing to sacrifice
a little file download speed for good, reliable pings. I'm using comcast
cable now and around late afternoon until midnight my games are absolutely
unplayable due to bad connection. This is something new and I suspect that
the recent worm outbreaks may be eating up local bandwidth when people come
home from work and fire up their computers. My main concern is the 128 max
upload speed? Is that fast enough for practical use and gaming? I really
don't want to stay with the cable it is HORRIBLE.

The speed isn't an issue for gaming, unless you are looking to host
your own server. It is more the ISP you need to find out about with
regards to gaming. I am in the UK so have no idea what Earthlink are
like.
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:25:11 -0700, Cybrow wrote:

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:44:43 GMT, "Gamer"
wrote:

Earthlink is offering 1.5 downloads and 128 dsl uploads max for a
reasonable price. Is that good enough for gaming? I'm willing to sacrifice
a little file download speed for good, reliable pings. I'm using comcast
cable now and around late afternoon until midnight my games are absolutely
unplayable due to bad connection. This is something new and I suspect that
the recent worm outbreaks may be eating up local bandwidth when people come
home from work and fire up their computers. My main concern is the 128 max
upload speed? Is that fast enough for practical use and gaming? I really
don't want to stay with the cable it is HORRIBLE.

~J

It should work fine. I have the same DSL speeds and play with no
problem. Your cable bandwidth is hammered pretty heavy right after
dinner and until bedtime so gaming then can be hopeless.

Don't ever try to run a server with 128kbit upload. Should be OK
for client-side gaming; BF1942 is the only current game that might
push this limit. Try it and see.. Anything is better than the upload
performance of a heavily loaded cable system. The upload channel
is bandwidth-shared amongst all cable subscribers in a local loop ---
which is why you get connection problems -particularly if half the
computers in your neighborhood are spewing replicated virii
into cyber-space.

John Lewis
..

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:39:41 GMT, (John Lewis)
wrote:

Don't ever try to run a server with 128kbit upload. Should be OK
for client-side gaming; BF1942 is the only current game that might
push this limit.

BF1942 doesn't need anywhere near 128k upload. Some people play it on
a modem, and are limited to the client base of the server they join
because of their download speed.
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Been playing every multiplayer game there is, running servers and whatnot on the same connection ONLY its a cable/earthlink
connection...Now 128 isn't the best but its fine.Running servers can be against your contract with earthlink, you'll have to read
closely or ask the question.



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Earthlink is offering 1.5 downloads and 128 dsl uploads max for a
reasonable price. Is that good enough for gaming? I'm willing to sacrifice
a little file download speed for good, reliable pings. I'm using comcast
cable now and around late afternoon until midnight my games are absolutely
unplayable due to bad connection. This is something new and I suspect that
the recent worm outbreaks may be eating up local bandwidth when people come
home from work and fire up their computers. My main concern is the 128 max
upload speed? Is that fast enough for practical use and gaming? I really
don't want to stay with the cable it is HORRIBLE.

~J

I used em long ago as ISP and they weren't bad. Now back to using local ISP
so have no idea if QoS has gone down or anything

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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:44:43 GMT, "Gamer"
wrote:

Earthlink is offering 1.5 downloads and 128 dsl uploads max for a
reasonable price. Is that good enough for gaming? I'm willing to
sacrifice
a little file download speed for good, reliable pings. I'm using comcast
cable now and around late afternoon until midnight my games are
absolutely
unplayable due to bad connection. This is something new and I suspect
that
the recent worm outbreaks may be eating up local bandwidth when people
come
home from work and fire up their computers. My main concern is the 128
max
upload speed? Is that fast enough for practical use and gaming? I really
don't want to stay with the cable it is HORRIBLE.

The speed isn't an issue for gaming, unless you are looking to host
your own server. It is more the ISP you need to find out about with
regards to gaming. I am in the UK so have no idea what Earthlink are
like.
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