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Will the new speeds affect . . .

  • 20-03-2005 6:05pm
    #1
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭


    Will the new 1mb and 2mb speeds being rolled out by eircom, esat etc. affect gaming? I thought that with speed increases we wud be gettin faster better pings but I have been informed that this will probably not be the case, does anybody know anything about it?


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  • #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Wont change at all , ping is determind by the number of hops to the server and on DSL the 1st is 40ish increasing speed wont change that it will be be 40ish and incremented per hop after that.


    kdjac


  • #3
    JohnMorrissey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭JohnMorrissey


    Well, shouldn't it allow you to play games with more people in them, without performance suffering?


  • #4
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,981 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    It might, but you will also have to upload more, so you might get some choke.


  • #5
    MrPinK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭MrPinK


    JohnMorrissey wrote:
    Well, shouldn't it allow you to play games with more people in them, without performance suffering?
    Only if your gaming was using up the full 512K you have at the moment, which would be suprising.


  • #6
    Willymuncher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭Willymuncher


    I guess it'll download stuff like customs maps and things faster in games like counterstrike :-/ but apart from that...not any faster


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  • #7
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    To play games online you only need 8kb upload and 8kb down (quite odd that)

    Ping is the time it takes your pc to send a packet to the server and back, increase in bandwidth wont change that, it will still take the same time to get to and back.

    As regards more players on server, thats your PC buy more ram or better CPu or bigger GFX card. Or maybe be **** server which cant cope with X many players therefore you get lag.

    kdjac


  • #8
    padraigf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭padraigf


    No, the amount of data you receive from a server definately increases with number of players. Try bringing up net_graph 3 in a game of CS in a 10 man server and then in a 64 man. Bet you anything theres a whole lot more coming in when it has to send you player updates for 54 more players!

    It will allow you to increase your rate, cl_rate and cl_updaterate settings to much much higher values. Always nice :) Now of they would just up the damn upload speeds so that we could increase cl_cmdrate....

    Ping will be the same unless they turn on interleaving to allow the higher speeds.


  • #9
    jimmeh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭jimmeh


    intereleaving will affect ping times, currently eircom has interleaving set to high o its 1meg / 2 meg packages i can only hope they dont do it for the 512k > 2meg upgrade as my ping will jump from 40-50 to 80-100 to english Counter-strike servers.


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