Sparticus Posted July 8, 2006 CID Share Posted July 8, 2006 One of my friends in my neighborhood is getting transfering from MSN dial up to Cox high speed. The bummer is he is only getting the 756/256 package. We were arguing on how fast it is and everything (I have premier 5mb/765). Are his speeds efficient enough to play online gaming? Is he actually gonna have good gaming or is he going to lag ALL THE time? He will be playing xbox live halo 2 the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted 2 Posted July 8, 2006 CID Share Posted July 8, 2006 for playing he has planty of upload and download but might lag a bit to servers far away in another country. as for hosting you probably cant do more that 4 to 6 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 he should be fine.. however.. everything else he is going to be doing.. download, surfing, etc. is really not going to be that much fun.. Online gaming doesnt take all that much bandwidth on the upstream.. Hosting is a different story.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 Surfing will be fine... downloading won't be blazing fast but it'll knock the socks off dialup... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 that is true.. but in the world of broadband.. that isnt blazing fast.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 that is true.. but in the world of broadband.. that isnt blazing fast.. maybe not but it beats my "broadband" connection by a good deal... especially on upload Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 " high speed" is only what you think it is. Their is no real set in stone barrier for " high speed" . To you, 8000/1000 is not fast enough! But for someone on dialup or even me , on the most basic of basic dsl, that IS high speed. ITs all in how you look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 i thot that when i was downloading at 40kbps was blazing fast when i went from dial up then you start to get greedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 40Kbps? I was lucky to get 28.8 lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 One of my friends in my neighborhood is getting transfering from MSN dial up to Cox high speed. The bummer is he is only getting the 756/256 package. We were arguing on how fast it is and everything (I have premier 5mb/765). Are his speeds efficient enough to play online gaming? Is he actually gonna have good gaming or is he going to lag ALL THE time? He will be playing xbox live halo 2 the most. Yea just like Blunted said you will have plenty of theoretical speed. What causes lag in on line games for the most part is server transfer not one persons connection, or if it is one person its just their connection dropping momentarily. Most on line games need very little bandwidth even with voice chat. Although everyone always loves to yell "He was LAGGING" when they get killed on line. Usually if one person lags everyone does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 I got 768/128 and I dont notice much if any lag in online gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 9, 2006 CID Share Posted July 9, 2006 I got 768/128 and I dont notice much if any lag in online gaming. thats because you have a good quality connection, you have very little latency, more bandwidth is less important in online gaming really isnt that important latency is important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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