online gaming misery any benefit in changing from three to Iirsh broadband

goldenbrown

got kicked off 7 servers in a row with my three hsdpa tonioght, nudged 672 ping around 10pm, a record, useless broadband -= anybopdy know if irish broadband would be an improvement for online gaming....thanks in advance

conjamuk

Carrier pidgins would be faster than three :pac: Irish Broadband are a lot better for gaming.

PogMoThoin

goldenbrown wrote: »

got kicked off 7 servers in a row with my three hsdpa tonioght, nudged 672 ping around 10pm, a record, useless broadband -= anybopdy know if irish broadband would be an improvement for online gaming....thanks in advance

3 and broadband should never be used in the same sentence, its not broadband, its mobile internet. You'll be better with IBB

smellslikeshoes

As technologies that are suitable for gaming go Hsdpa is not very high up the list. IBB will give you a much better time altogether, as long as its not ripwave you are talking about.

bushy...

conjamuk wrote: »

Carrier pidgins would be faster than three :pac: Irish Broadband are a lot better for gaming.

IBB could do with a few new pigeons.....

$ ping 87.x.x.x
PING 87.x.x.x: 56 data bytes
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9 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 11.1% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 9.827/24.455/121.110/36.535 ms
$
$
$ ping -s 500 87.x.x.x
PING 87.x.x.x.: 500 data bytes
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11 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 45.5% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 12.172/82.128/193.460/62.236 ms
$

Sqaull20

Any dsl package ( even 1mb) from Bt,Eircom,Smart,Ibb will be way better than 3

CptSternn

The fact you were able to connect to an internet gaming server while using 3 is quite amazing. I couldn't connect to BF2 or any other servers and you can forget about XBOXLIVE. 3 sucks for many things, including gaming.

Cabaal

IBB should work abit better but you'd be much better off with ADSL as pings would be alot lower

watty

IBB Breeze OK for gaming, but IBB ripwave can be worse than 3 (or other HSDPA/3G).

Some Metro masts give better ping than DSL.

Blaster99

And if we were to not plug Digiweb for a minute, it's fair to say "some" IBB sectors also have decent pings. You will, overall, get the best pings with DSL, though. Wireless, either in Watty/Digiweb guise or IBB, varies quite a bit.

TheMaxDaddy

I've used HSDPA with Vodafone in Dublin city and got some savage (PS3) GTA deathmatchs. I use Three HSDPA in west Wicklow (cant get Vodafone HSDPA), I get full Signal, but useless ping. If you can get Vodafone HSDPA I'd think about that. Try both, most HSDPA providers do a trial period....

barnicles

Ripwave is crap

Try Breeze