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    Recommended ISP speed for FPS gaming

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by anymike_00, Apr 12, 2010.

  1. anymike_00

    anymike_00 Notebook Enthusiast

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    whats a good download speed that can provide good enough ping for gaming? because i have a 2mbps wireless connection and its REALLY laggy (At&t)
     
    anymike_00, Apr 12, 2010
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    hovercraftdriver Notebook Deity

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    Any cable or DSL in your area should do the trick. Cellular service ( I assume that is what you are referring to) sucks for gaming. Guess it depends on the game, but most anyone will say the same thing.
     
    hovercraftdriver, Apr 12, 2010
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    isp "speed" has little to do with gaming fps. neither does the eternal argument between cable and dsl.

    it's all about packet loss and latency.

    notice that no isp will sell you a plan based on packet loss and latency. Those are the hardest things to manage on the internet.
     
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    Yeah the bandwidth is the speed 2mb/s is more than enough.

    Its how fast your signal can get from A to B and back that counts. Aka the ping.

    First of all if you can go wired instead of wireless that will help ALOT. Wireless (satellite) is the worst you can get for latency as the signal has to pretty much literally go to outer space and back before it goes to the game server.

    Even using a wired connection to your router instead of wireless can make a difference in gaming but thats not nearly as important as your internet type.

    Try a simple test from windows go to run from the start menu and type in cmd. This will open the cmd.exe application (command prompt) then type inside that without quotes "ping www.google.com" post back what your ping time is I just got 45ms average on my work internet and I had a 25% loss on the packets.

    You can also go to sites like speedtest.net and run a speed test from there little flash application and it gives you results of ping (latency) and also your upload/download bandwidth and post back with that.
     
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    ^^^ These guys expanded on my reasoning...STILL assuming you are referring to a cellular type service, latency/lag/ping time issues are a notorious fault with these types of connections. Had a buddy try to play WoW using a Verizon wireless mobile broadband connection with a max signal...he gave it up after about 3 minutes into his first raid.
     
    hovercraftdriver, Apr 13, 2010
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