Broadband optimized for Gaming :/?

BunnyKillBot said:
No, because Demon = Bulldog = Cable and Wireless = Electronic Arts / Sony Online Entertainment / <insert demonic evil cash cow institution here>

Seriously, awful awful company, awful awful awful with knobs on. Stay Away
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hhmmm...

I'm with vivaciti LLU which buys off Bulldog/C & W its truly unlimited an runs great, I download as much as I want with no FUP/restrictions.

I don't think there is much merit in gaming interwebz though...
 
Old tech ...lol. Send this to him, he obviously doesn't know what the protocol is so gave the ole TS BS.

16ms, man, if I had to drop sync down to half a meg but would guarantee me that sort of ping, I would do it. Leave that line well alone!
 
Naff8000 said:
I am absoloutely certain fast path would make no difference. I have never had such low pings (16ms in some online shooters). I don't dare ask anymore in case they change it. Maybe something to do with my dreadful download speed? I'm over 3 miles from the exchange
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Distance from exchange shouldn't affect your ping to any discernible degree, at least not in my experience. I am a long way from my exchange too but get pings about as good as it's possible to get on ADSL.

If you are getting 16ms by running a ping from a command prompt then I would say you are already on fast path, because such low pings are simply impossible with interleaving.

For example, this is mine. I highly doubt this 'optimised for gaming' broadband would be any better.

>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=12
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=12
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=12
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=12

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% lo
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 13ms
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Router diagnostics should tell you if you're on Fast or Interleaved ... Netgear for example Login>Diagnostics>Display detailed ADSL driver informations and look for the info.
 
Hmm my ping comes in at 78 :( Im on aol 8mb unlimited .It has always seemed fine to me but there may be better out there.I am about 700m from the exchange.
This is the info from my thompson speedtouch 576
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 8,096
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/GB]: 421.75 / 1.59
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 15.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 6.5 / 11.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 22.0 / 14.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / TSTC
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 19,309
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 36
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 26

Cant tell if i have fast path or not?
 
kieves1 said:
Hmm my ping comes in at 78 :( Im on aol 8mb unlimited .It has always seemed fine to me but there may be better out there.I am about 700m from the exchange.
This is the info from my thompson speedtouch 576
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 8,096
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/GB]: 421.75 / 1.59
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 15.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 6.5 / 11.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 22.0 / 14.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / TSTC
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 19,309
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 36
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 26

Cant tell if i have fast path or not?
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You're on interleaved.
 
You don't need LLU to get fast path, just ask your ISP to sort it. (They will put in a request to BT.)

By the way, I just noticed your sig. I don't think we all put our PC components in our sigs to boast, I certainly don't as my PC is 2-3 years old tech (or more in the case of some components). It does mean you don't need to repeat your specs when making technical related posts though which is the rationale for having it there.
 
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i get this
* ADSL is available in your area
* Your exchange is also enabled for ADSL Max services
* Your exchange is not yet enabled for ADSL2+ services

According to BT Wholesale, your phone line should be able to support a 7.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max.
Standard ADSL RAG results

* You can receive 2Mbps ADSL
* You can receive 1Mbps ADSL
* You can receive 512kbps ADSL
* You can receive 256kbps ADSL
but never have had anywhere near it only once steam said i hit 1.5 mb.was getting half of that but took cables out of box and got double.is there anything i can do?
i'm with bt and live about 1 mile for main exchange.
 
mel_d you are probably better off asking general ADSL speed questions in the relevant sub forum :) On the topic of gaming pings, your low speeds won't preclude you from getting as good a ping as anyone else on ADSL as it isn't speed dependent. And you don't need much actual bandwidth to play games.
 
FrenchTart said:
Post your line stats (SNR and attenuation) and we can give you a speed estimate. Likely with tweaking your line could do a little bit faster too.
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Here's my info...

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2688 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 47 db 14 db
Noise Margin 9 db 23 db

So even though nothing else seems available on my exchange, FastPath would be?

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.69] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53
 
dirtydog said:
Distance from exchange shouldn't affect your ping to any discernible degree, at least not in my experience. I am a long way from my exchange too but get pings about as good as it's possible to get on ADSL.

If you are getting 16ms by running a ping from a command prompt then I would say you are already on fast path, because such low pings are simply impossible with interleaving.

For example, this is mine. I highly doubt this 'optimised for gaming' broadband would be any better.
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ADSL can do a lot better than that - when I had a flat in London (near bromley) I could ping jolt, multiplay, bbc, etc. at 3-4ms in DOS :D even out here in the back of nowhere I used to manage an average of 10ms to google, bbc, etc. until BT screwed up the routing - I now get 20ms because BT are retarded and routing me somerset->sheffield!!!->milton keynes->london instead of the old route of somerset->reading->london.
 
auraindigo said:
Oh I agree. Self tweaking never did any harm, in fact, anybody that hasn't tweaked the Q3 based config_mp settings such as:

seta snaps "30"

seta cl_maxpackets "100"

... do so immediately!
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Interesting... Do you know if those variables also work in Quake Live? Maxpackets is set to 63 and the snaps variable doesn't exist at all in my cfg file.
 
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