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#21 S3dition

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Posted 12 December 2011 - 06:22 PM

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

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#22 Gunman5000

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 05:24 AM

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#23 Nik Van Rhijn

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 05:59 AM

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

#24 Strayed

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 07:51 AM

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.

#25 MaddMaxx

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:48 PM

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

#26 TheRulesLawyer

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:55 PM

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

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#27 Holmes

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:57 PM

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.

#28 Holmes

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:58 PM

View PostTheRulesLawyer, on 13 December 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:

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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.)

#29 TheRulesLawyer

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 03:20 PM

View PostHolmes, 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.

#30 Holmes

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 03:25 PM

View PostTheRulesLawyer, 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.

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Posted 14 December 2011 - 02:21 AM

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

#32 TheRulesLawyer

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Posted 14 December 2011 - 09:42 AM

View PostHolmes, 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.

#33 Kale Cytair

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Posted 14 December 2011 - 10:02 AM

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I do so hate Qwest/CenturyLink.

#34 Nathiel Surefire

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Posted 14 December 2011 - 01:58 PM

View PostHolmes, 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.

#35 Holmes

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Posted 15 December 2011 - 07:05 AM

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.

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Posted 15 December 2011 - 08:34 AM

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

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#37 StarfyrGuns

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Posted 16 December 2011 - 12:54 AM

here`s mine...

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#38 Nav

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Posted 16 December 2011 - 01:28 AM

View PostA-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?

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Posted 16 December 2011 - 01:47 AM

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