512K - too slow for online gaming?

MisMatch · Post by **MisMatch** » 29 Nov 2006, 09:05

It's more then enough.
Good old times when you could play CS beta 4 with just a 56K6 modem :roll:

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 29 Nov 2006, 09:39

Ping is the thing ... as Doug and Paradigm Shifter say ...

Do a ping to Google ... from what I understand of it all you really need the average to be about 37ms in order to have good online gaming ... whatever the connection speed.
I have a 3MB connection but my ping is bad as my connection is wireless so online gaming is a no go for me ... the interruptions are too annoying.

Post by **skipclarke** » 29 Nov 2006, 13:09

If I ping someone in our Chat, I get

PING reply] : 1.578 seconds :shock:

My Inet route is

House dish to bird
bird to Washington DC
then to site I requested

& all the way back again

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 29 Nov 2006, 13:14

Anything <100 used to be considered playable in the days of 56k modems. But <40 was considered ideal.

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