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[Hunter Gamma]

My older connection was max 2Mb and I played loads of online games with it surprisingly well, so I think this connection should be more than enough. Especially if/when European servers come online.

[Drenar]

Iron Harlequin, on 28 June 2012 - 11:49 AM, said:

So its looking like the large majority of people here wont be able to play at all, or comfortably.

Just for your information, I attempted gaming when Battlefield 3 came out, and before that Crysis 2 ^{(which is the game engine that MWO runs off of.)} and was running on a 10 mb/s down, 1 mb/s up connection from AT&T. Lets just say there was no point in even starting the game up, because having that little bandwidth killed any fun I might have had with enormous amounts of lag, even on servers 1 state away from me.


I switched to another provider, Time Warner, for 30 mb/s down and 5 mb/s up, then my performance vastly improved. The extra 20 mb/s down was a huge improvement but mainly the upspeed made most of the difference. So I would say you probably wont be doing any "fun" gaming with under 15-20 downspeed and anything under 5 upspeed.


My internet still isn't perfect, and I have some issues, but I can play everything comfortably unless I try playing on some server located in another country thats full of high pings. So hopefully I'll get the job at Verizon next week and switch to FiOS with a hell of a discount.

Ummmm, what was the latency on that 10 Mb connection?

I run on a 1.5 Mbps connection and can comfortably play many online games. There are two things that come to mind immediately if a 10 Mbps connection isn't playing smoothly: Either horrible netcode on the part of the game devs, or you're running something like Satellite internet, which sends packets in groups, and so leads to major lag in games.

I actually remember when we first upgraded from Dial-Up to Satellite (it was all that was available in the Colorado Front Range) online games actually got worse. Diablo 2 went from mostly playable with occasional lag to standing in one place for 2 minutes to try to pick up a pile of gold.

[Praxiis]

[timber12]

i checked my internet speed here

Edited by timber12, 26 June 2013 - 04:15 AM.

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[Kamatayan]

In game though, my latency registers between 230ms - 300ms

Edited by Kamatayan, 17 September 2012 - 05:11 PM.

[MagisterSart]

I am at home now, so it will be about 40 Mbps. At work it will be 700 Mbps or so.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

http://www.speedtest.../2189054582.png

Hard to beat that for the 25$/month I'm paying. But these tests aren't accurate fyi. In fact they are pretty bad. In reality I average 1.5MBs download, or 12mbs, with a 100-150k upload. I'm never actually at what this speed test says I am at. If you want to see how fast you can go, the best way to do that is to file share something on Bitorrent or queue up a pile of downloads. This will allow you to much more accurately see your limitations. I've done this a lot and I've NEVER been as high as what this speedtest says I am at, not even close.

[IronHead]

[Joe3142]

2Mb/s download, 0.7 Upload

[Lube2311]

[Curccu]

[SeventhAngel]

A slow day.

[Teh Emo Penguin]

[Skidmarx]

[StLeco]

[von Pilsner]

[icall]

I am from IRAN and i hace the highest speed connection available for home here!!
I still can only play on low quality...

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