Whats your Broardband speed

[Aussiedroid]

Hey Mobius, I think for 32 player battles the choke point becomes the game server and their bandwidth. Also to some respects the game design itself.

In the more extreme case like EVE they used different techniques to negate latency such as that slow down effect they use in fleet battles to keep everyone on equal footing.

From what I read before with Elite they will be using some P2P traffic which would minimise the server requirements.

 

[Slawkenbergius]

Am I going to die? Fingers crossed there'll be something nice rolled out soon, like the rumours I keep hearing. There are a few techy firms in the village where I live (ARM used to have their main office an Aerobie's throw from my house, literally). Perhaps if I had a word...

 

[Mobius]

Am I going to die? Fingers crossed there'll be something nice rolled out soon, like the rumours I keep hearing. There are a few techy firms in the village where I live (ARM used to have their main office an Aerobie's throw from my house, literally). Perhaps if I had a word...

Ouch! my mum recently had BB plugged in, for the 1st 6 months she had 0.75 down and frak all up. she decided to upgrade to BT infinity and she is now 20mb down 10mb up. £18pcm

 

[Slawkenbergius]

Yeah, that Infinity rollout can't come fast enough - I just registered my interest, but have seen we're not on the list of exchanges for 2013. Fingers crossed, by the time E is released, it'll be done. It'd still only be FTTC for me - but that should do well enough.

 

[Mobius]

Yeah, that Infinity rollout can't come fast enough - I just registered my interest, but have seen we're not on the list of exchanges for 2013. Fingers crossed, by the time E is released, it'll be done. It'd still only be FTTC for me - but that should do well enough.

I think 99% of BT infinity customers are FTTC, i am and im capped at 75mb.

 

[AbueloNemesis]

I think the ping is just wrong, seems an issue of the test server. Tried others and got ~50-60ms but less bandwidth. Yeah upload is not really great, but at least I don't have any traffic limit.

40 euros every month for this, not pleased but I'm just not allowed to pick another better one here. Last ISP was worse, got spikes of 1000ms randomly, a nightmare playing online.

 

[aelreth]

That's what rural looks like.

 

[SnowGhost]

1.25mb up & 256kb down

But I never see those download speeds except when downloading stuff from Microsoft, which use the Akamai cdn.

Come on NBN. But I'm at least 3 years away.

 

[aelreth]

1.25mb up & 256kb down

But I never see those download speeds except when downloading stuff from Microsoft, which use the Akamai cdn.

Come on NBN. But I'm at least 3 years away.

Now that I think about it, The australian outback is likely more rural than Alaska.

 

[bodshal]

Yummy!

 

[SnowGhost]

Now that I think about it, The australian outback is likely more rural than Alaska.

Sadly, I'm only an hours drive from CBD of Melbourne. I'm not in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Rehclip]

Yummy!

By this time next year I'll have 1000mb/s down, 1000mb/s up. Yay Google Fiber!

 

[FrogsFriend]

Virgin Media cable 50M connection.
The Upload, Download and average ping look great but the Jitter (variation in ping) is terrible. Makes gaming or streaming difficult at best but is ok for downloading large files.

Of course VM don't advertise the figure for Jitter and so they won't measure, fix or even discuss it as a problem. Their community forum is chock full of complaints that they never respond to.

Fingers crossed for some improvement during the next year as they are finally upgrading some of their very old network equipment.

 

[Kerrash]

I usually get around 22Mb, which isn't bad considering my location.
Don't see me getting an upgrade for years to come however

 

[Slawkenbergius]

I usually get around 22Mb, which isn't bad considering my location.
Don't see me getting an upgrade for years to come however

Anyone wanting to know if they're on the schedule at the moment can check here. From BT:

We plan to roll out superfast fibre broadband to two-thirds of the UK by the end of Spring 2014.

 

[Mack]

Stuck at 20mb atm, averageing about 18mb on speedtest.net, but when the telco finally pulls their finger out.. 1Gb
1Gb fibre here I come.

 

[Philip Coutts]

This makes me feel miserable. I get 1.6mb and I live in the middle of Stirling. Shakes head and walks away.

 

[jimgiraffe]

40Mb down and 10Mb up Sky Fibre

 

[kaserei]

Anyone wanting to know if they're on the schedule at the moment can check here. From BT:

heh the BT exchange near us has had an upgrade promise on it for over ten years. It's just hot air. Virgin make a killing around here, and they aren't even offering their best deals. NTL before them had a monopoly, and before broadband cable TV was also the best option in the area.

20MB/1MB/30-60ms is more than enough for online play for a household, however contention can be a major peak times factor. I suspect I am the only business subscriber on my local node, so I am unlikely to upgrade to a faster residential contract as I can see my neighbour from my desk in the front room, and his kids always have a torrent client running!

 

[JFK]

(ARM used to have their main office an Aerobie's throw from my house, literally). Perhaps if I had a word...

Sneaky measurement of distance. I approve