Gaming on 1-2.5mb

Choose another area... You'll not only have bad speeds, but bad connection. I live in the sticks and it's often the case that the lines are ancient and not seen a decent replacement let alone a repair in decades. So the copper is all rotten and a slight fart can knock the connection.
 
Lol I can believe it, it sounds absolutely ridiculous buying a house around the broadband, but it's a "thing" we all use a lot, it's like saying no TV or cups of tea for some people.
 
Make sure you get a router with good QOS features to prioritise your gaming traffic, otherwise you will keep lagging as other family members suck all the bandwidth.

Also get a router you can tweak SNR and you might be able to gain half or a full mb or so. Billion do good routers for this, got my 3.5mb connection up to 4.2. I have the 8800 and its QOS isn't good enough to prioritise gaming traffic as it cannot perform any uploading QOS so you may have to look into that.
 
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leon4112 said:
Really bad i wouldn't even look at it unless really have no choice your looking around 150 ping mostly
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Satellite latency is 250ms at the absolute minimum, fine for downloading but gaming isn't going to be usable.

Buddy of mine lives out in the boonies in scotland, he has a 3mbps adsl line which he uses for gaming and is looking at 4g for big downloads, satellite would also suffice but 4g is cheaper.
 
We get around 3.5mb usually, and it's fine for gaming (though I don't do much), and for streaming at 720p (one stream at a time though).

Lately, we've had a fault on the line (engineer's 2nd visit tomorrow) and are down to about 0.3mb! You do start to realise the quality of life impact terrible broadband speed has.

I might upgrade to fibre (arrived in our village around 6 months ago) once our technical problem is fixed. I'm not sure I would now move to an area where fibre is unlikely to be installed. Things are only going to get worse for those with slow connections. Especially if you've got kids.
 
Gaming will be ok but how often games update nowadays will really screw you over.

If BF1 has a 2-3gb update that'll take you around about 5-6 hrs at a guess.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
I'm currently using 100mb Virgin but I'm looking at moving house to the country-side however the broadband speeds I've come to know and love are virtually none existent at the new house, 1-2.5mb on BT 512kb minimum.

At the moment I hammer the broadband, my son streams night and day, I download like a mad man and missis is never off the internet. All at the same time. Now I know this won't be possible at the new property but will I still be able to play games online. My must game is Battlefield, but how will it cope.

The local phone exchange is Fibre enabled by BT but they have no plans to install at the address I'm looking at.
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There will be many arguments to come.

We moved to 1.5. to 2 village when I got ill and my daughter (17) and I fought like cat and dog over who was going to stream at night. We also had no mobile data so I was really happy when I packed *cough* she chose to go to uni... However we were very lucking in being the furthest Cab to be installed on our exchange and we now have 75/19, she is back from Uni and the world is at peace once again...

I was going to link in a site you could show an interest to having it installed, however that does not appear to be there any more...

Good luck...

Highly recommend basket weaving and painting by numbers ;)
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Lol I can believe it, it sounds absolutely ridiculous buying a house around the broadband, but it's a "thing" we all use a lot, it's like saying no TV or cups of tea for some people.
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Access to reliable internet is classed as a basic human right, such as lighting and running water you know! :D
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
I'm currently using 100mb Virgin but I'm looking at moving house to the country-side however the broadband speeds I've come to know and love are virtually none existent at the new house, 1-2.5mb on BT 512kb minimum.

At the moment I hammer the broadband, my son streams night and day, I download like a mad man and missis is never off the internet. All at the same time. Now I know this won't be possible at the new property but will I still be able to play games online. My must game is Battlefield, but how will it cope.

The local phone exchange is Fibre enabled by BT but they have no plans to install at the address I'm looking at.
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Surely if the exchange is Fibre enabled you can have it ? How far are you away ? If its FTTC its not the address its installed to its the nearest point where it be a cabinet or exchange?

Have you found out where the nearest cab is or is there none and the exchange is nearest ?
 
I think apart from gaming your kids are going to have to find new hobbies tbh, when I was on those speeds until recently you could either game or download, not both and it was barely good enough for netflix/youtube.

That was for one person too let alone a whole family, I imagine sharing that connection will just drive it into the ground.

I'd honestly base your quality of life on more than the internet though, there are bigger and better things for you and your family than being reliant on the internet 24/7 it will just take getting used to.

Been there done that, and I'm happy either way. love the download speeds but when I don't have internet I don't care, its a luxury not a necessity to be watching youtube and gaming all the time.
 
Boycey0211 said:
I think apart from gaming your kids are going to have to find new hobbies tbh, when I was on those speeds until recently you could either game or download, not both and it was barely good enough for netflix/youtube.

That was for one person too let alone a whole family, I imagine sharing that connection will just drive it into the ground.

I'd honestly base your quality of life on more than the internet though, there are bigger and better things for you and your family than being reliant on the internet 24/7 it will just take getting used to.

Been there done that, and I'm happy either way. love the download speeds but when I don't have internet I don't care, its a luxury not a necessity to be watching youtube and gaming all the time.
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Problem is it is kinda a necessity these days due to online tv and sky on demand and other functions that people use just to name a couple, gone are the days that internet is a luxury as it was 5-6 years ago people buy and sell houses based on what kind of internet you can get.

We have a new build for example and the estate agent when we sold it said since we have fftp it would add money on the asking price also sell quicker as more and more people know what they are looking for when looking to buy a new house.
 
Lovefilm still do a Films by Post.
Steam can be left to download overnight, and you can use remote access to start it from work or phone.
You can use NetLimiter to throttle bandwidth to certain times of day (ie. Steam/uplay etc. throttled from 7pm - 11pm) if needed for inconsiderate users.
Some routers let you play with the Signal-to-Noise ratio which can squeeze a few extra % out of the ADSL.

But just like motorbike engines, theres no substitute for size :)
 
My missus wants to move to the country and this is the single biggest thing putting me off! Bigger house, bigger garden, less crime . .. eh, but what about the internet? I remember my 28.8k dial-up! My name back then was, appropriately, Sir Lagalot.

I am used to my 240 meg connection now so it would be very hard to go back.
 
leon4112 said:
Problem is it is kinda a necessity these days due to online tv and sky on demand and other functions that people use just to name a couple, gone are the days that internet is a luxury as it was 5-6 years ago people buy and sell houses based on what kind of internet you can get.

We have a new build for example and the estate agent when we sold it said since we have fftp it would add money on the asking price also sell quicker as more and more people know what they are looking for when looking to buy a new house.
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Oh I can see your point exactly, however he hasn't stated why he's moving yet.

But what if where he's moving to is a better quality of life? How much do you give up so you can let your kids stream youtube?

Obvs thats a different answer for everyone but personally I wouldn't. You can live with slow internet, even no internet at all to some extent but theres always another option.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Lol I can believe it, it sounds absolutely ridiculous buying a house around the broadband, but it's a "thing" we all use a lot, it's like saying no TV or cups of tea for some people.
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My soon to be wife is a senior software dev, I'm an infrastructure engineer (IT). We genuinely base our location heavily on the broadband factor. Sounds daft, but to us, it's up there with other key items like what the neighbourhood is like.

And seeing as your son streams, it will hinder his hobby. Which could be a really bad thing.
 
It sounds like a first world snobby problem but when kids and wife start coming up to you asking why their apps aren't working, the prime video isn't working, youtube is not working, can't do homework or game. It's a massive life style change.

I went somewhere during xmas hols to a friends house, by no means "out in the country" by my definition, but his area at best could get the same as what he had. I noticed a few in the house linking up to his home wifi and thought to myself, cheaky gits, maxing out his already slow connection, no wonder it's slow. Then for lols, I linked up myself to run a speedtest and he had about 1Mb down and about 500Kb up. I mean it was literally unusable even for just googling some text. I know on paper it shouldn't be...but it was.

It's a massive consideration now.
 
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