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[S3dition]

This is while hosting a full TS server, mail server, and music server:

[Gunman5000]

Edited by Gunman5000, 13 December 2011 - 05:30 AM.

[Nik Van Rhijn]

The phone company have just finished work here - my ping is now 108

[Strayed]

All very well saying it should be enough.... but everyone knows the last enemy that shall be defeated is lag itself!

I get a B* which essentially is a question mark about packet loss. Although even if I got a good connection still going to be about location I bet.

[MaddMaxx]

A Ping under 300 with Zero packet loss should be sufficient.

[TheRulesLawyer]

Should be good enough for now. We're getting internet 2 installed right now so it should get much faster.

Edited by TheRulesLawyer, 13 December 2011 - 02:56 PM.

[Holmes]

I have a 114kb/s download speed, and like 60kb/s upload speed, but I tend to get pretty good ping in games. As long as the net code is done properly, most people should be OK. Even with my horrendous internet bandwidth, my ping is OK, usually between 40-90 in FPS games.

[Holmes]

TheRulesLawyer, on 13 December 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:

Should be good enough for now. We're getting internet 2 installed right now so it should get much faster.

..There is no way in God's green earth you get 90 Mb/s. That has to be a cookie glitch. (Look at the part where it says faster than 99% of the population.)

[TheRulesLawyer]

Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:

..There is no way in God's green earth you get 90 Mb/s. That has to be a cookie glitch. (Look at the part where it says faster than 99% of the population.)

I'm downtown Chicago at a University with a very good connection. Where is the surprise? I'm not running a cable modem here. Oh, and it was pretty much the same for 3 runs.

[Holmes]

TheRulesLawyer, on 13 December 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:

I'm downtown Chicago at a University with a very good connection. Where is the surprise? I'm not running a cable modem here. Oh, and it was pretty much the same for 3 runs.

Do you ever actually get that kind of speed on downloads? That's nearly what a home network does (not counting the 1GB/s networks) with 5 feet of cable, much less an internet connection. I'm just shocked, I've never even seen T1 or T3 or Fiber go near that high, and Fiber is basically a resistance-less vacuum tube of light.

[Webclaw]

Wow, that for a NZ connection to Auckland is pretty good.And that for a NZ connection to Washington DC, I consider to be fairly good

[TheRulesLawyer]

Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:

Do you ever actually get that kind of speed on downloads? That's nearly what a home network does (not counting the 1GB/s networks) with 5 feet of cable, much less an internet connection. I'm just shocked, I've never even seen T1 or T3 or Fiber go near that high, and Fiber is basically a resistance-less vacuum tube of light.

Occasionally. Microsoft is usually the best bet for big downloads. Its mostly limited by the remote server. I think we're on an OC3 connection in my building right now, not a t1 or t3. As I said, we're moving to internet2, which should be into the multi Gb/s range.

[Kale Cytair]

I do so hate Qwest/CenturyLink.

[Nathiel Surefire]

Holmes, on 13 December 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:

..There is no way in God's green earth you get 90 Mb/s. That has to be a cookie glitch. (Look at the part where it says faster than 99% of the population.)

I'm surprised you didn't try to call me out earlier in the thread when I posted 200+ Mb/s. The reason he gets that sort of speed is probably because his university has a direct line to their ISP, which cuts out a lot of the traffic and bandwidth issues people normally see. My school IS its own ISP, which means that since my computer's ethernet cable wires directly into the host server, I get speeds faster than a direct fiber cable (up to 2Gb/s, which is absolutely ridiculous). Of course, the only way you can reasonably get those sort of speeds on a realistic download is either by connecting to a server that is set up to handle those kinds of speeds (microsoft's servers will go pretty dang high when they're not loaded down, as well at the MIT servers when our university is working with them on a project that requires ultra high bandwidth), or by doing a massive parallel download for maybe 50 different things at once all from different servers, which combined together will really rack in the download speeds.

So yes, connection speeds like this do very much exist, most prominently at high tech universities.

[Holmes]

Actually, a "direct fiber cable" is theoretically so fast that your HDD writing would be the bottleneck of the connection. But that said, yeah I guess if you are literally living at your ISP that makes more sense.

[Asmodean]

everyone better sit down for this one....Thankfully we are getting an upgrade in about 6 months via WiMax connected to the town's fiber ring

[StarfyrGuns]

here`s mine...

[Nav]

A-dog, on 11 December 2011 - 03:49 AM, said:

yer well i live in Australia and internet speeds here are a joke. i can only get satellite. :\

Mate have you checked with Telstra recently if you can get wireless broadband? Can you get 3G Mobile coverage at your place?

[DECOSTER]