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Online Gaming Pings

Couple of Q's here

1.what is the average ping rates of 64k and 128k when playing games online?

2.is it worth paying the extra cash for a 128k anytime contract when i mostly play games but only sometimes d/l large files ie films, mods etc.

3.what is the difference between the £20 and the £100 isdn pci cards apart from the price?

4.
 
1. 64k will be slightly better ping wise but if a game requires more than 7kb/s bandwidth then 128k would be more suitable, I doubt there would hardly be any games which use more than 64k though.

2. If you don't download constantly then I'd say no, but it all depends really, if you spend more time playing games online than downloading then keep with 64k.

3. Not entirely sure to be honest, could be paying for the name? Or maybe it has some kind of built in analogue system where you can use an ISDN channel for normal voice calls.
 
Battlefield 1942 is unplayable on 64k but fine on 128k. It needs at least 100kps for a relatively lag free connection.

Most BF1942 players are on broadband but if you can connect at 128k you are ok. This is the only game I've come across where I need to run at 128k to make it playable. So far anyway....
 
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Thanks for the reply folks.
ive got the bt engineer coming on the 21/10 (next week) :D :D
i cant wait to kick some as on UT2003.
 
6 hours and counting till the BT guy is scheduled to arrive at me pad.(im up at this time cause i took the day off work). :cool: :D :cool:
 
you betcha!!
it took 2.5 hours to install and 1.5 hours of me fiddling about untill i realised that i had to inform my isp of the number change.
LOL.
Never mind, i forgot all about it once i started kickin some ass on UT2003.
im getting pings of between 100-150.is this normal??
ive got me an asuscom TA card.
 
depending on what ISP you use 50-80ms i would say are satisfactory pings in UT2003 (for me)
I generally get this on many UK servers on average.
 
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ya ping is about right :)
depending on what server,s you go on and distance as it,s been said before :)and the isp of course and time of day .
 
hmm, i was with freeserve but then they stopped accepting switch(long story). i might sign up with them now that i have a credit card.
 
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I have being with BTanytime for a long time and did find their game pings to be excellent--until recently.
So I tried and compared Bt with Freeserve, Clara net, Doodah. On the same test using Counterstrike on an empty server Freeserve were consistantly 10-20 lower pings than BT.
So today I cancelled my BTanytime account.
 
Markeh said:
Freeserve Anytime :)
I've found it to be the best ISP for gaming.
Freeserve is pants atm for me...bloody ping spikes every few seconds.
Im sick of this **** getting ping raped on servers ...gonna have to move to an ADSL area me thinks.
 
I play elite force online using either barrysworld or Jolt servers. With a few players in a server I ping around 50-60 with my current ISP but if theres more and there's alot of data coming down it can go up to 100.

Also over the past 6 weeks I have noticed red spikes have started to appear with isp's that use to provide a good connection for me. I was with Fast24 (ping'd around 80 with them) but I got pee'd off with their pricing plans. I am now with firenet which gives me a nice low ping of 50+ but I also had problems with Firenet on certain dial up numbers with very bad red spikes (packet loss), in blocks. This has now been resolved by using one of their dial up numbers which I beleive is on the energis network.

I was talking to a guy in a server about his ISDN and he said it had been crap the last few weeks until he got an alternative dial up number for his freeserve account. So Overclocked, have you tried the other dial up number?
 
man i play here www.zone.com in the cd retail rooms, age of empires 2:the conquerors expansion.
The website has usualy on average got 150,000 plays on it world wide, the game i play varies from 900 to 5000players (mind u the game is getting old now).
In each room is allowed 300 people to go into a table type game with maximum of 8 players to play in the game.

When i was on a 56k modem the best ping i could get to any player latency was about 200ping i think it was, but now im on this 1bit cable modem im getting players pings of 30ping, a huge difference from 56k modem :)

Broadband is the best and i deffinetly recomend it to all, so when its available, you go get it. You will never ever wanna go back to 56k/isdn
 
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I currently only have a 56k modem due to the fact that like many others Broadband is not available in my area!

I am considering ISDN but dont know whether or not its worth it!

I download files quite regularly and also play a lot of online games!

At the moment my best ping i have had is about 320. :eek:

Any help much appreiciated regarding 56k connection and ISDN!

Cheers!

Rico
 
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hi rico, a m8 of mine has isdn. he plays warcraft3 like it was going out of date, says its great. he had to go back to 56k, for a while cause he was hard up. he said 56k is horrible once you get used to isdn. I am considering of getting it, we cant get DSL here either.
 
I remember when i had 56k and when i used to play multiplayer gameing.
Online friends were usualy people from america with broadband, people in europe usualy had ISDN atleast.
So I always wanted a ISDN line cos something like a T1(1.5mb) line seemed too far away in the future, so ISDN was what i so so so wanted.
I never had the chance to have ISDN because my ISP telewest was bringing out the broadband 512kb which was like a Godlike connection to go and get, and then came the 1mb some months later.

When I had 56k, people in Denmark, Holland, Germany, Finland, Sweden all had ISDN. Now we have 512/600/1024-1mb, those other countries have upto 8mb line's now widely available lol, its stupid. Even more stupid that this country still hasnt got broadband/digital to every rural house in the country.
 
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Nuther fine isdn solution?

:) Most of us in this forum using a TA go for the Asuscom card, i find this trouble free 99.9% of the time apart from a couple of little hiccups.OFP was kinda slated as a bad game on 64k a long time back and i think the forum has lost all data on the subject, i used to get drop after drop in ofp till i tried this.Go my computer/properties/performance options and choose background services.This will kinda obviously stop your CPU cutting all resources to your pci asuscom card when the going gets real heavy. The asuscom card isnt particulary cpu reliant its just some games ask for a little more cpu than others.Only other solution would be a totally passive isdn router or ta, but like i say this works fine.
 
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