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512K - too slow for online gaming?
Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 09:05
by MisMatch
It's more then enough.
Good old times when you could play CS beta 4 with just a 56K6 modem :roll:
512K - too slow for online gaming?
Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 09:39
by Paddy the Wak
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.
512K - too slow for online gaming?
Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 13:09
by skipclarke
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
512K - too slow for online gaming?
Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 13:14
by Paradigm Shifter
Anything <100 used to be considered playable in the days of 56k modems. But <40 was considered ideal.