dsl speed

Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: dsl speed

alright, is a 1.5Mbps download speed for DSL capable of playing online? or would it be worth it to fork over extra money for 3.0Mbps? how much faster is it in gaming needs? would it affect playability, if so, how much? thanks
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DaKon · Ville Supporter Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 2342

that would be beyond fine for gaming. hell 64k up and 512down works too. But I like speed of getting large files so I have 768 up and 6mb down
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Albino Gibbon · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

That's plenty fast enough. There would be no difference in a 3mb or a 1.5mb download rate in gaming. What is the upload rate? Believe it or not, that will be more important to you.
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crackhead_fred · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

should be playable depending on where the server is and how fast it is. i remember when i first started playing tfc many many years ago i had a 56k and cheap vc that gave me 8-10fps in software mode. *sigh*, those were the days...

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Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject:

can't find the info for upload rates.
website for the page i am looking at now (cheapest so far for the area

), http://www.usa.att.com/dsl/index.jsp
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Pornstar · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject:

Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:07 am Post subject:

so is that fast enough?

I want to be able to play here

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Stevo · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

Yes.
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Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

thanks you guys

I am trying to explain it to my mom as well as understand myself, so your input helped, thanks

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't completely wrong with how I was explaining it

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Simpleman · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah when I went from 1.5 to 3.0 I didn't notice any difference when my upload went from 128 up to 482 I noticed alot of difference. It let me set my rates higher. My rates had to be set real low when it was at 128 and now I run cl_updaterate at 101 and cl_cmdrate at 101 with no loss

. If you can get a better upload it will help just see if they have a 256 up most do now

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If they have SBC in your area it runs about $37.00 a month
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gindapoo · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject:

I know this has been a week or so since this post started, but I have SBC 128up/1.5down DSL in SE Oklahoma. I get fine frame rate and ping in the 45-75 range on all TV servers--on a home network with 2 other computers sharing the DSL connection.

Oh, and I only pay $25 a month ($30 if I wanted to bump up to 256k/3.0M)
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