Is eircom broadband enough to play on-line?

Stercus Accidit

I'm just wondering considering the appalling state of our broadband service, are we able to play online properly using one of the standard providers?

I have eircom broadband at home in meath, just the standard lowest service.
I can do a speed check later but is it likely to be enough?

Thanks.

Jim

Aslong as the broadband is over 512kb/s (which it is) it wont really effect ping. If the service is ****, then it will, but even if you had an 8mb line with **** service you'll have a pretty bad ping.

blaze1

I have 2mb eircom, but due to absolute cack copper in my driveway it has only been at 512 for the last week or so and its still playing ok!! apart from pro evo but i think this is more of a problem with the server

Cuddlesworth

Do a ping test,

Go to "Start", then "Run". Type "CMD" into the Run window that opens up and hit enter. You should see a black dos prompt box come up.

Type the following into it, ping www.boards.ie -n 100

You should see a ping to the boards servers come up. What you are looking for is the latency, measured in mili-seconds(ms) and the consistency. So at the end at the summary you should have an average ping of between 20-40ms and no packet loss(100% return ratio).

Thats all you need for good gaming, even a 1 meg connection will handle 3 gamers fine.

Stercus Accidit

average of 24, so just enough, thanks.

BFassassin

I have used eircom broadband this past two years with no major problems.
Go for it and enjoy online gaming.

supertramp

don't forget with eircom you sometimes need to set your firewall settings to low, for online to work...

Stercus Accidit

I'm playing gta online now, was playing non-ranked matches fines yesterday, but today am frequently being disconnected as some players have been disconnected, and I wasnt seemingly in that game at all just there, everyone was ignoring me.

Firewall is off completely.

TomCo

Motosam wrote: »

Firewall is off completely.

Good to know,

muhahahahaha!

Stercus Accidit

Ok really annoying, about three quarters of online games I join crash, or at least for me.

I'm playing gta4 online and usually end up disconnected from the game mid game, which is really annoying.
I get the connection has been lost with one or more players message, you are the only player left message, and the connection has been lost returning to single player.
Is this a problem with the gta servers, my netopia router form eircom, or a local server issue in meath or something.

If this is common I suppose I can live with it, but I wont be gaming online, if its just me maybe I can sort it out.

Thanks.

Cuddlesworth

Motosam wrote: »

Ok really annoying, about three quarters of online games I join crash, or at least for me.

I'm playing gta4 online and usually end up disconnected from the game mid game, which is really annoying.
I get the connection has been lost with one or more players message, you are the only player left message, and the connection has been lost returning to single player.
Is this a problem with the gta servers, my netopia router form eircom, or a local server issue in meath or something.

If this is common I suppose I can live with it, but I wont be gaming online, if its just me maybe I can sort it out.

Thanks.

The way the xbox works is that you all go into a lobby, then join a game. The game is hosted on one of the machines. If that machine goes off line the game is ended. Annoying but thats how it works.

Stercus Accidit

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

The way the xbox works is that you all go into a lobby, then join a game. The game is hosted on one of the machines. If that machine goes off line the game is ended. Annoying but thats how it works.

Really?

I assumed the xboxes just handled their own data and send and received it to a central server or something to collate the data?

So do you get this also in online games? Seriously 3 out of 4 games end randomly for me, and I'm pretty sure its and issue with my connection as the game continues without me.

Example I'm playing a game and all of a sudden every other player lags and stops moving, after 10 seconds I'm informed that I lost the connection.
I'm also told later on the headset that the game had continued without me.

I can only assume I have an issue then with my connection, the host rarely drops out.