Whats your Broardband speed

[Mobius]

Elite being multiplayer! broardband speed is the difference between killing the other player or floating home in an escape pod.

for the DDF getting an idea of what the average BB speed is will help towards some of the decisions we are likley to come accross.

So whats yours?

if your not sure use this
http://www.speedtest.net/

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

10mb down 1mb up

 

[v85rawdeal]

 

[Mobius]

im on BT Infinty, capped at 75mb down and 25mb up with unlimited download.
£28 pcm

though my test shows different

 

[Cosmos]

Surely its the latency that's going to be the defining issue rather than the bandwidth.?

 

[jabokai]

Surely its the latency that's going to be the defining issue rather than the bandwidth.?

What he said. Most online games don't consume that much bandwidth... Latency is WAY more important in the scenario described in the OP.

 

[Mobius]

Surely its the latency that's going to be the defining issue rather than the bandwidth.?

yes your right but with faster connection you pretty much get a better latency.

 

[jabokai]

yes your right but with faster connection you pretty much get a better latency.

My speed is about a quarter of yours... And so is my latency! So it doesn't always follow.

 

[Mobius]

My speed is about a quarter of yours... And so is my latency! :O So it doesn't always follow.

ask someone who's BB speed is at the 2mb range. as going up latency does improve. i would say anything upto 20 is pretty safe, going beyond that and you will start to notice.

 

[GreeceyChops]

yes your right but with faster connection you pretty much get a better latency.

Ummm, nope, not necessarily. Latency is much more a function of the route something has to take than your actual broadband speed. Someone could have a 50Mb download speed but experience much greater latency to certain servers than someone else with a 20Mb connection, purely due to the hops each one has to take to get from their PC to that server, via their ISP and everything in between...

 

[Havana]

I'm on Infinity now and get speeds of up to 77M down / 20M up (I'm about 30m from the cab!) with a typical in-game ping of anywhere between 10 & 25ms (depending on the server).

Prior to this I was on ADSL with a rather unreliable 2.5M down / 0.5M up, but ping times were fairly similar.

Generally speaking I would say that with fibre internet you will see marginally lower latency, but not by much, and it's doubtful that it's enough to actually matter. The particular games' netcode has a much more significant impact these days as most gamers tend to have reasonably quick connections.

 

[GreeceyChops]

ask someone who's BB speed is at the 2mb range. as going up latency does improve. i would say anything upto 20 is pretty safe, going beyond that and you will start to notice.

I've been a regular home-worker in the IT industry for a lot of years now - when I first started doing it my broadband connection had a download speed of a mere 512K. It's now 20Mb - and in all that time the latency has barely changed.

 

[kaserei]

Not sure why a Bristol speed server was chosen, my ISP is Virgin Business and a trace route shows connectivity via Manchester.

I had a look today at the speed I could get with BT here.. 6Mbps! awesome, where's my chequebook?

 

[kaserei]

I've been a regular home-worker in the IT industry for a lot of years now - when I first started doing it my broadband connection had a download speed of a mere 512K. It's now 20Mb - and in all that time the latency has barely changed.

Same here, in fact I haven't been to the office for about 3 years. Same on the latency too, the only improvement was swapping from home to business broadband where the uplink quadrupled and we had a new cable run from the amplifier at the end of the street.

 

[Aussiedroid]

Not to dampen the thread, but the speeds will play a lesser part to what your latency (or ping) will be.

Here in Australia, I would expect if its a UK based server that I might have 200-300ms delays where you guys in the UK would probably have 20-50ms.

From my experience this can make a big difference and mean I could probably be a top pilot and still get owned by lesser players. Maybe not though but I will die fighting LOL

Back on topic .. around 12mb/s download 1mb/s upload, here which is quick by most peoples accounts as I am still running off the copper phone network as with most of the country.

With 250gb usage allowance (shaped to 256kb!) that costs locally around $70-90AU normally (give or take on providers). Looking at what you get OS looks like AU we pay a lot for our internet. You are all so lucky!

Australia does have the NBN (National Broadband Network) rolling out now to get us all on Fibre direct to the home so then I hope to see some of those UBER speeds listed above!

Very interested on what other people get and are charged

 

[kaserei]

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Very interested on what other people get and are charged

20MB down, 1MB up, latency varies by service/endpoint but around 30-60ms in rift (trion) as an example.

I pay about UK£58.00 per month for Virgin Business (copper local, fibre upstream somewhere, but they could be having us on heh). We pay a lot due to no local competition from BT (see last post) and as I work from home exclusively I need the 2 hour service response.

 

[jabokai]

Very interested on what other people get and are charged

I'm £13pcm for 16Mb/1Mb. Not fantastic speeds (no Infinity until end of march) BUT truly unlimited, low latency, NO throttling of anything (including P2P) and I always get full speed, never anything less than the full 16Mb down even at busiest times. I'm actually nervous about moving to Infinity because of the excellence of the rest of my package!

 

[Havana]

I'm £13pcm for 16Mb/1Mb. Not fantastic speeds (no Infinity until end of march) BUT truly unlimited, low latency, NO throttling of anything (including P2P) and I always get full speed, never anything less than the full 16Mb down even at busiest times. I'm actually nervous about moving to Infinity because of the excellence of the rest of my package!

Who's your provider? Sounds like a nice package!

 

[jabokai]

Who's your provider? Sounds like a nice package!

Yeah, it works for me, been with them for ages! When I say who it is you'll probably get a dozen people screaming how bad they are but honestly I have had zero issues with them since they got their own gear in my exchange. It's O2 - bring on the screaming!

 

[Mobius]

ok ill admit defeat. latency is not always tied to speed, so how would latency effect a game of 32 players with different speeds with information flowing between all 32 players in a battle?