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Posted by: Nessy
Aboutt he question on high speed ISPs.
Now, companies can offer you 10mega bit down and 1 megabit up, but that doesn't mean jack when it comes to gaming. Many companies internet connections become crappy do to high use during peak hours. I have 4M down and 384K up, but during the day i get 50-150 ping on UK servers, my friend Matthew is with AOL and gets 25 ping constant during the day and his speed is half mine.
So, you should look around and try a few out, high speed isn't what matters for games.
Good point. I've always gotten a good connection and before I got my router I tested my up and down stream speed, and I was surprised at how fast the up stream was. I'd been thinking of going to cable, but my up stream was much faster, plus, as I understand it, cable is like a party line, (more users= slower connection), but DSL is a dedicated line from you to the phone company.
An interesting thing happened tonight. I had a good connection speed, (67-110), and lots of servers in the gamespy lobby. I went to join a server called "Deadmen only" and got that message that says, "negotiating connection to server", (I always wanted to know what the heck that means– I never end up connecting).
After a while I got the message that I could not connect. When I went to get the server list, I had like 4 or 5 servers in the list.
This is a server that I've played on before and enjoyed, but now that I think of it, about half the time I get the "negotiating" message and can't join. I wonder if there's a connection between getting rejected by that server, (or any server) and my connection problems?