Best broadband for gaming in Dublin?

xman0r

Hello,

I'm moving to Dublin from abroad and now I have to choose the broadband provider that will give good pings to gameservers outside Ireland

The wireless options seems pretty bad pingwise, so I guess the only option is ADSL if I want to play Battlefield 2 online. What providers do you people suggest for Dublin West (Blanchardstown)?

Roen

I never really experienced ping problems with my old Digiweb wireless connection, when it was working that is. 50-75 was normal.
I'm with NTL atm and I get 25 - 50 to all english and almost all european servers. Not sure what your options are in Blanch, but I'd go with NTL give half the chance, especially if the rumoured upgrades go ahead in lake Feb.

xman0r

Thanks, maybe I will give NTL a try then

DemonOfTheFall

Eircom get better pings than any other provider from what i've seen. Other than Irish Broadband, but they're not even worth considering.

SeanW

Is the ping rate package-dependednt? I'm on Esat BT, and I'm using the cheaper package (supposed to have gone to 2048/256 after the upgrade but I never got it)

When this upgrade actually comes my way, or if I upped my plan BT Broadband Plus, would that give better ping times?

Gonzo

the new packages do give different ping rates if your package works well... broadband home professional gives amazing pings IF your internet connection is performing well and homeplus is slightly worse but still very good IF its working rite.... ive been on both in the past 2 weeks and my connection is rotten but thats just me being highly unlucky.

Skarloey

I think the eircom packages just announced are good

Anarchist

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

Eircom get better pings than any other provider from what i've seen. Other than Irish Broadband, but they're not even worth considering.

I beat Eircoms but then again I have interleaving off and a 6mb line.

philologos

the 3Mbit package from BT is pretty good I must say.
5 ping to the BAF server for counterstrike
usually about 20 ping to a UK server

Nietzschean

eircom have the best pings in general from what i've seen... ntl are only usefull if your lucky, i'm pinging 203ms to boards.ie atm

Turner

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

Eircom get better pings than any other provider from what i've seen. Other than Irish Broadband, but they're not even worth considering.

Eircom are solid though, IBB are not all bad.

Pinging a BF2 server on 2mb IBB breeze.

C:\>ping 213.208.119.114 -t

Pinging 213.208.119.114 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.208.119.114: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=116

Ping statistics for 213.208.119.114:
Packets: Sent = 39, Received = 39, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 25ms
Control-C
^C
C:\>

DemonOfTheFall

Oh yeah, I know that there are a good few people here on boards who get IBB and get amazing speeds with it. But there are so many people who despise them and get a woeful service that I don't think they could be recommended to anyone.

Nietzschean

well it depends on where they are and what high site they would be on...doesn't cost anything normally to figure that sort of stuff out....