You might lag out on the bigger matches. But it should be ok.

I know people who game over a 3g connection.

 

It probably would be enough, but try to get your parents to get you 512.

 

i think 512k is the min for those games i remember i had 256 and my isp bumped it up to 512 for free now i have 3mps for the same price as the 512 line i had 4 years ago with the same isp

 

i use a 6mb , totally worth it.

 

Thanx for the response guys.
I think what i am going to do is get the 384kbps line. And if it isnt fast enough i will see what i can do to upgrade to a faster line.

 

i have 10 mb net
i play cod2, cod4....
when i got 1 mb was the same... ping is the same
so is the same iff u have 364 or 512... with 512 u will dl maps and mods faster
for the ping or lag is the same

 

Try 512, is way better it wont lag, no delay , faster connection, but if you cant afford it then go for the 384...

 

companies usually advertise its 512 or 384 or whatever but to find you're true speed divide it by 10 and that is the real speed you get, I would reccomend 512 though as it is the minimum for many games now 384 is good for small matches and 512 medium size matches

 

I seem to remember some games say 512k minumum, so I'm pretty sure you'll need that for games like BC2. Everything will be so much faster as well.

 

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Originally Posted by LimeX i have 10 mb net i play cod2, cod4.... when i got 1 mb was the same... ping is the same so is the same iff u have 364 or 512... with 512 u will dl maps and mods faster for the ping or lag is the same

this man speaks the truth. You want a connection with the lowest latency rather than the highest bandwidth. Having a high bandwidth doesn't matter much in online games. I have had two 10 mb/s connections and the difference in lag is pretty awesome on the one that consistently has 10 ms pings

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Speed has nothing to do with latency.

My ping is 400 ms no matter if I'm downloading at 2 mb or at the very normal <256kbps.

Provider's fault, try and see if anyone you know has that same ISP and do a pingtest at their house.

Just in case I game over an EVDO laptop on an Adhoc Net.

 

Thats a little slower than my 3g connection, but you should be fine. I never lag with it and ive played countless online games.

I finally got cable this weekend, so i can download and watch things 10x faster.

 

In a 20 man source game I pull on average 20KB/s or 160Kb/s, but of course ping is more important, 384Kb/s is unlikely going to choke and increase ping.

Custom content downloading could be boring though.

 

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Originally Posted by L3gacy companies usually advertise its 512 or 384 or whatever but to find you're true speed divide it by 10 and that is the real speed you get, I would reccomend 512 though as it is the minimum for many games now 384 is good for small matches and 512 medium size matches

You've got it all wrong. The only time you divide anything is when you're trying to convert from MegaBITS to MegaBYTES. Companies advertise their speeds in BITS. To get your speed in BYTES you divide the BITS by 8, not 10. If you had a connection of 8megabits per second, your download would be 1 megabyte per second (ideally).

Not trying to be an ass but just trying clear up misinformation.

384k, eh? I take my cable connection for granted lol

 

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Originally Posted by sintricate You've got it all wrong. The only time you divide anything is when you're trying to convert from MegaBITS to MegaBYTES. Companies advertise their speeds in BITS. To get your speed in BYTES you divide the BITS by 8, not 10. If you had a connection of 8megabits per second, your download would be 1 megabyte per second (ideally).

That's technically correct but it is more realistic to divide by 10 instead of 8, as almost always you're going to have some sort of overhead with the connection; this way you can take that factor into account. Of course, if you have super-awesome fiber-to-the-home internet, you may not get the overhead.

 

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Originally Posted by Chunky_Chimp That's technically correct but it is more realistic to divide by 10 instead of 8, as almost always you're going to have some sort of overhead with the connection; this way you can take that factor into account. Of course, if you have super-awesome fiber-to-the-home internet, you may not get the overhead.

My connection must be awesome then

 

where are you that you can only get 384kb? slowest advertised by my isp is 3mb/s

 

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Originally Posted by compuman145 I know people who game over a 3g connection.

guilty

 

ive ran css and ut on dialup perfectly fine..(pinged about 160 tho) but that didnt stop the ownage

 

the download wont really affect your ping as much as the upload and you probly get same upload with both speeds.

 

24Mb, waaay more than what i need just for gaming. For a fun time id be looking for something bigger than 384....depends on the game. You have to remember that sometimes you will be downloading files from the server, not necessarily just communicating with it. Lag is pretty much ping dependent after 1mb for anything, I have 1mb upload so this is the limiting factor.

 

Update: My dad might also get adsl (he plays games as well). So we have might go half half on it. If we do this we will go for a 4mbps uncapped line. Does this mean if we both use it at the same time we will each get about 2mbps. And how much will it cost to buy the equipment (router etc.).

 

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Originally Posted by Michael.444 Update: My dad might also get adsl (he plays games as well). So we have might go half half on it. If we do this we will go for a 4mbps uncapped line. Does this mean if we both use it at the same time we will each get about 2mbps. And how much will it cost to buy the equipment (router etc.).

There's a sale on Newegg for a 802.11n + 4x100Mb/s residential gateway + adapter.

4Mbps is total.... you don't want to split it. Let the router determine packet priority.

 

I couldn't even game at 786.

 

ADSL and gaming? One word for that : FASTPATH! You can have 20 milliong gagillion megs but if you don't have good peering you can show off with that connection.... on paper.

This will answer the person who said that gaming quality is related to speed. Correction, that is only one factor!