*** Official Elder Scrolls MMO Thread ***

eviljester91 said:
just brought it for 25quid but at this rate i wont be able to play till next weekend download speed of 9MB on speedtest but only downloading at 1.17mb :(
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Because Speedtest shows your line speed not your download speed, most ISPs let you download at 10% of your line speed so that sounds about right, this isn't a fault of Zenimax.
 
The dirty robbing swines :p never knew that dont know a whole lot about speeds and that tbf...i was never saying it was a fault of zenimax. Owell should be done by the time i get back from the pub and foosball
 
Yeah ISPs are getting cheeky these days, especially when your line speed starts to apply to less and less things. Being on Virgin media it's annoying that not even YouTube uses my line speed anymore, and on 80MBbit I'm having to buffer stuff on occasion.

At least 3rd world countries don't have to put up with this. :mad: :p
 
Omaeka said:
Because Speedtest shows your line speed not your download speed, most ISPs let you download at 10% of your line speed so that sounds about right, this isn't a fault of Zenimax.
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Doesn't it show calculate your line speed by timing how long it takes to download a file? The 10% thing seems rubbish too, unless you are confusing MBps with Mbps?
 
RDM said:
Doesn't it show calculate your line speed by timing how long it takes to download a file? The 10% thing seems rubbish too, unless you are confusing MBps with Mbps?
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Yeah speedtest shows Mbit? Line speed is calculated with megabits by ISPs and 10Mbit = 1MB? So somebody on a 10mb/s package gets 1mb etc. ISPs like to sell lines based on the Mbit so it seems like more to the average joe.
 
RDM said:
Doesn't it show calculate your line speed by timing how long it takes to download a file? The 10% thing seems rubbish too, unless you are confusing MBps with Mbps?
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This, what he said was total ******** :p

I have a 50mb line yet I downloaded this game at around 17mb/s
 
Would love to know what ISP is giving you that speed on a small package, unless you're talking crap and that was your install speed, which TESO likes to show for some reason. Virgin & B.T sell packages based on Mbit, and 10Mbit = 1024kb, it's simple maths. Of course you could be on a smaller unknown ISP but the big boys sell packages by the Mbit, and if your package is 50Mbit you won't be getting 17MB.
 
Exactly, other than a friend who was on Talktalk getting 2mb/s on a 10mbit line (20%) I've never heard of anyone getting more than 10% of their on paper speed as direct download speed. I'm sure some of the smaller ISPs provide more than 10% but It's doubtful they could provide much in the first place. Kinda annoying when you're letting somebody know how most ISPs handle download speeds and somebody comes along and says you're full of **** and that they get nearly 50% of their line speed, which is unlikely.
 
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Omaeka said:
Exactly, other than a friend who was on Talktalk getting 2mb/s on a 10mbit line (20%) I've never heard of anyone getting more than 10% of their on paper speed as direct download speed. I'm sure some of the smaller ISPs provide more than 10% but It's doubtful they could provide much in the first place. Kinda annoying when you're letting somebody know how most ISPs handle download speeds and somebody comes along and says you're full of **** and that they get nearly 50% of their line speed, which is unlikely.
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Its nothing to do with % of speed that ISPs allow. ISPs advertise their speed in Megabits whereas file sizes tend to be given in megabytes/gigabytes. 1 megabit = 8 megabytes so if you have a 10Mb line, you should Maxit out at roughly 1.25MB/s.
 
DanTheMan said:
Its nothing to do with % of speed that ISPs allow. ISPs advertise their speed in Megabits whereas file sizes tend to be given in megabytes/gigabytes. 1 megabit = 8 megabytes so if you have a 10Mb line, you should Maxit out at roughly 1.25MB/s.
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Which so happens to be near enough 10%. Just letting him know why he's getting 1/10 of the speed he thought he had?
 
Didnt expect to start a debate over download speed lol as ive not played the beta(couldnt be bothered with the download tbh) is everyone on one big server? Also is the templah a good choice? Been thinking what to choose.
 
Omaeka said:
Which so happens to be near enough 10%. Just letting him know why he's getting 1/10 of the speed he thought he had?
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It's not 10% of his connection.

10 Megabit connection has a throughput of ~1.25 Megabytes per second

If they are getting this then it's near the top of the maximum throughput.

I've got 78 Megabit FTTC and get a throughput of ~8.9 Megabytes per second, again near the top that it should be getting.
 
I knocked it during the beta, but to be fair, the points that annoyed me they seem to have vastly improved.

Am enjoying the game, has a very ol'skool MMO feel to it imo.
 
Omaeka said:
Which so happens to be near enough 10%. Just letting him know why he's getting 1/10 of the speed he thought he had?
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No, you are completely wrong.

1000g = 1kg
It isn't 0.01% of it.

50Mbit is about 7MB, thus a speed of 5.5MB is reasonably close to the max., It is a low % of it.

You are confusing units.
 
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