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Posted by: Eyeshine
News so old, it makes your mom look young[/quote]
Posted By: KittyCat Gansta
...if you didnt read what i said read it again!
Posted by: Jimmy01
Do none of you have a sense of humour? We do, this just isn't funny.
Posted by: Chomskyite
Posted by: bored28
At the very least, every player should have a connection that is trained at 700Kbps down/540Kbps up. Anything lower is pitiful and useless to the gaming community. For 19.99, one is able to attain a rate of 1.5Mbps down/640Kbps up. That is becoming the de facto standard, not this 256Kbps up/down nonsense.
Whomever is giving them networking advice needs to be a bit more up to date. The days of the 256Kbps connection is over. Please join the 21st century where the majority of people have a connection rate greater than or equal to 700Kbps down/ 540Kbps up.
Just a thought.....
Dude, seriously, that sounds awesome.... sign me up...
Oh... wait.... I live in England.
Sorry, the best I can achieve (after months and months of harassing my best area ISP) is 3mb Down / 450 Kbps Up. Oh, and guess what, that's FAR SUPERIOR to every single one of my English friends who play Xbox Live.
Oh...wait...another niggle. Nearly 90% of our ISP's still use copper-wiring as the standard cable. Awesome...
Listen, I don't know where you're from (England/US/France) but those kind of speeds are FAR from standard over here in the UK right now. Yes, many ISPs are ostensibly offering such speeds, but the fact of the matter is that the cables used here and the distance of each individual from the local exchange seriously impinges upon the kind of speeds their lines can achieve.
As such it's the usual story... about 85% of MM for us sorry Brits is played on American host resulting in a decisive and easy victory for our good friends 'over the pond'. Usually such victories are accompanied by an abundance of self-congratulating smack-talk with already bloated US egos leaving the game more convinced than ever of their natural superiority at the game.
Of course, this is usually (not always) a completely unfounded and shallow farce but....hey....who wants to take the time to come play over here and experience things from the other side. Better to just flatter oneself..... even if it is delusional.
Bitterness aside.... I, and many of my friends, would love such speeds (particularly upload) that you've mentioned. It aint gonna happen anytime too soon though...
In the meantime... custom, custom, custom.
:-)
I am in the UK, and i have BT Broadband 8MB down and around 1MB up....
BT is the best, as my 2MB was better than my friends 10MB blue yonder and my other friends 8MB Some other company....
But now i have 10MB and i get host on regular occasions, and dont seem to have any major problems.