1,5Mbps Download 768Kbps upload is good for gaming?

Hello.

so i suscribed to another ISP and my connection is DSL will be 1.5Mbps download and 768Kbps .will it be very fast and yeah my ISP guarantees 768Kbps upload speed.

Thats your throughput and not any accurate measurement of speed. Your connection might still be blazing fast or incredibly slow for games.

There really no way of knowing until you actually try it out. Besides, its unlikely that you have an alternative anyways?

Having said that, those speeds should not decrease gaming performance is throughput was the concern. Which it rarely ever is since most games are typically just a few dozen Kbps of up/down.

WHAT IS YOUR PING BRO

ALSO ONE POINT FIVE MEGABITS IS LIKE THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SPEEDS

ping might be 45 or so but right now my neighbor has the same connection the ping is around 45 to 50

ping might be 45 or so but right now my neighbor has the same connection the ping is around 45 to 50

berto64

Ping.... to what? You ping Tibet and i can promise you its not going to be 45 ms. Even dial-up can reach near 45 ms on very close proximity servers.

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ping might be 45 or so but right now my neighbor has the same connection the ping is around 45 to 50

XaosII

Ping.... to what? You ping Tibet and i can promise you its not going to be 45 ms. Even dial-up can reach near 45 ms on very close proximity servers.

Yeah, but if he is getting 300ms to the next town over that is awful.

TC, go to speedtest.net and tell us your distance from the server and what your ping is.

I used to have DSL like that, it was playable online, but not the best.

That internet just suxxx, no offense.

Not everyone lives in the states brother. I am surviving on a 384 kbps ADS: line :-)

My cable was that speed back in 2002. One of the fastest, but now I only get so-so speed 15-3 :\

Been gaming on 1mb/s for a long time, and I have never had trouble running an online game smoothly with it. What matters is latency, you won't really know how well it runs until you try it.

It is enough for online gaming. It is not going to be fun for dling large files.

I game on a DSL line for qlive since comcast users have screwd up routing for that game in west coast, works great, I get 15 ping with dsl and 48 with comcast cable. A few other qlive gamers have dsl connections just because of this... although my solution is way more elegent.

what is the cheaper alternative? because u can do multiplayer just fine with half that...

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ping might be 45 or so but right now my neighbor has the same connection the ping is around 45 to 50

GummiRaccoon

Ping.... to what? You ping Tibet and i can promise you its not going to be 45 ms. Even dial-up can reach near 45 ms on very close proximity servers.

Yeah, but if he is getting 300ms to the next town over that is awful.

TC, go to speedtest.net and tell us your distance from the server and what your ping is.

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Ping.... to what? You ping Tibet and i can promise you its not going to be 45 ms. Even dial-up can reach near 45 ms on very close proximity servers.

JohnF111

Yeah, but if he is getting 300ms to the next town over that is awful.

TC, go to speedtest.net and tell us your distance from the server and what your ping is.

speedtest tests your latency too bro

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Yeah, but if he is getting 300ms to the next town over that is awful.

TC, go to speedtest.net and tell us your distance from the server and what your ping is.

GummiRaccoon

speedtest tests your latency too bro

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[QUOTE="JohnF111"] Signals don't travel as the crow flies. That speed aint great but it's more than enough for gaming but like others say it's not how much data you can send or receive, it's how quick it can be sent or received. You should be fine unless you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere with massive thunder storms and power plants affecting the lines. Anything under say... 70ms of latency shold be okay, less is better though. Best to give your games a try and see how the servers treat you because even if the server is three doors away it does not mean you'll have amazing latency as connections are not direct.JohnF111

speedtest tests your latency too bro

1.5 at sync is not enough through-put for gaming. Now I'm not saying you won't be able to do online gaming (you will). But I doubt you will be half as competitive as you should be vs players with less bandwidth restrictions.

I think a 100mb download and upload should be good, jk if you aren't doing anything else on the internet at the same time it should be okay

1.5 at sync is not enough through-put for gaming. Now I'm not saying you won't be able to do online gaming (you will). But I doubt you will be half as competitive as you should be vs players with less bandwidth restrictions.

ShimmerMan

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1.5 at sync is not enough through-put for gaming. Now I'm not saying you won't be able to do online gaming (you will). But I doubt you will be half as competitive as you should be vs players with less bandwidth restrictions.

JigglyWiggly_

Noticeable lag occurs in 2005 DSL speeds of 700kb/s.

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1.5 at sync is not enough through-put for gaming. Now I'm not saying you won't be able to do online gaming (you will). But I doubt you will be half as competitive as you should be vs players with less bandwidth restrictions.

evildead6789

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[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"] Games require less bandwdith that web browsing. 1.5 mb/s is adequete.JigglyWiggly_

Yeah , and you're a major game company?

And don't tell me you run 15 megabits up per client because this is what we're talking about here off course not the total upload speed for all clients. :p

What kind of game needs that much bandwidth? CSS 16 man server, 100 tick, cl_mincmdrate 80 and cl_minupdaterate 80 uses like 2 megabits... and most servers are total garbage 66 tick with 45 or 33 mincmdrate, feels like crap.JigglyWiggly_