Satelite broadband and gaming

neil_g said:
6-11 meg will be fine. I've gamed on much worse.
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He is in West Sussex so I feel his pain. 6 meg is a monster of a connection in many places.

I have just moved to a village and the ADSL I had to endure for the first 3 weeks was at very best 1.6 meg but quite often 0.9 meg.

Thankfully fibre is enabled and I am a stones throw from the cabinet so am back to 39 meg.
 
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I'll just post this to pour some salt into the wounds :p

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That put's Virgins supposed fastest to shame, I feel a move coming on once this contract ends

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Larry365 said:
Your connection will be fine for gaming but depending on the rest of your usage, 5mbit might be frustrating. Are there any villages/towns/council towerblocks etc nearby that have fibre, and if so, do you have line of sight to said location? The reason I ask is because I moved to a farm with 1mbit bb, using ubiquiti, I now have a 200mbit vm connection from a neighbour half a kilometre away. I have a thread about it here.
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Thanks for this. I'm trying to find out who has fibre close by. I'm not close to a some of the things you mentioned and if I was, trying to convince these guys to add a little dish on there wall might be a frustrating ask. I did speak to another neighbor and he did say that they ran cables a few years back at the of bottom road. But nothing up to the 6 houses where I am. Might have to dig some trenches(another mate did it in Bude, Cornwall)

I did get hold of these guys(they were useless and eventually came out to do a survey, so they said) they said there were too many tress to reach their Arial.

http://www.kijoma.net/

Spoke to BT this morning again, even though the website said 6/11mb he said on his system he can only see 1-5mb :(:(

So that what is is...
 
Don't get me started with BT. Woeful customer service.

Since I moved into my new build, which BT had priority on the estate (got to be something dodgy there), the internet has been nothing but shocking. Due to there being no competition we only have copper wiring. New build estate with 400+ units and we get copper... Even though we are surrounded by fibre from both BT and Virgin.

What's even worse is that this new estate hasn't even got a new exchange for it. We are being served directly by an exchange only line? Whatever this means. So they can't upgrade us to fibre either.

So regular broadband it is... up to 12mb. Not so bad. I have yet to see over 8mb. When it is working. Most evenings from 7pm to 11pm I get less than 1mb over a wired connection. As low as 0.02mbs over wireless. This weekend just gone I basically had no internet for both days.

Constantly ringing them but all they do is run an online diagnostic that reports back everything is fine. Reset the line (which fixes the speed temporarily) then run a speed test and say I am getting speeds within their quoted range; 1mb - 12mb. 2 weeks of this now, with countless line resets.

They offered to send out an engineer at £120 for the privilege...
 
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Yeh, 1mbit and in my opinion you would struggle to game, especially including voice. Some will disagree but I'd say you'd notice.. Web browsing will be painful and you can say goodbye to streaming. The average webpage is now 2mbyte, so you're looking at a 16 second wait, on average.

People are cool. If you can find a house with fibre and you have line of sight, go round for a coffee, get to know them and see what happens. You might be surprised. Financial incentive helps but I have always found that practical skills are better. If you can offer to help in their house when they need it, fix computers etc then it will go down better. Says a lot about your character too. The ubiquiti units I got were only £150 and have a range of about 35km. At 550metres, I'm getting 300mbit in one direction. Definitely worth looking into. Trenches are expensive. Fibre optic cable is expensive and Ethernet is typically limited to 100m. Your options are limited.
 
Larry365 said:
Yeh, 1mbit and in my opinion you would struggle to game, especially including voice. Some will disagree but I'd say you'd notice.. Web browsing will be painful and you can say goodbye to streaming. The average webpage is now 2mbyte, so you're looking at a 16 second wait, on average.

People are cool. If you can find a house with fibre and you have line of sight, go round for a coffee, get to know them and see what happens. You might be surprised. Financial incentive helps but I have always found that practical skills are better. If you can offer to help in their house when they need it, fix computers etc then it will go down better. Says a lot about your character too. The ubiquiti units I got were only £150 and have a range of about 35km. At 550metres, I'm getting 300mbit in one direction. Definitely worth looking into. Trenches are expensive. Fibre optic cable is expensive and Ethernet is typically limited to 100m. Your options are limited.
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Yeah cheers for this again. I will do some research and see who has fibre close by and go have a chat. It doesn't hurt to go and have a chat and see what they say. I bought a new powerful lawn mover of the weekend, might go see if their grass needs cuttings ha :D

I wonder if BT are allowed to tell me who has fiber close by?
 
It's actually a separate line. I organised with virgin to create a separate account and they ran a new line from the road up to cabinet I fitted on the side of the house.
 
Vuvuzela said:
Yeah cheers for this again. I will do some research and see who has fibre close by and go have a chat. It doesn't hurt to go and have a chat and see what they say. I bought a new powerful lawn mover of the weekend, might go see if their grass needs cuttings ha :D

I wonder if BT are allowed to tell me who has fiber close by?
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They would definitely be allowed to tell you, but they won't necessarily know what's close. You could just start searching post codes. Seeing as you would need line of sight (los), that possibly narrows down the likely candidates.
 
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Just to add, the equipment is super reliable. I havent had to touch them since install. Been about 10-11 months now. It just works.
 
Adsl is perfect for gaming as long as no one else in the house doing stuff like facebook etc.

This is my speed pretty terrible for downloading or mutilple users but great for gaming, in most server games my ping under 20 and jitter is always 0.


With adsl you want a provider that will give you a fastpath line then ping is much much lower. Not sure what other providers do fastpath but I know with talktalk you just call and ask for it.
 
I had ~1.5Mbps for years and never had a problem with gaming. The latency was always around 40ms and that was the key to it being fine. Updates however would take an age as the speed is the limiting factor for that.
 
Vuvuzela said:
I play a range of games , mmo to fps to flight simming.
So no go on the satalite thanks for the advice. BT are saying I can get between 6-11mb did a test on neighbour, they getting 5mb. It's my only choice I guess, better than nothing.

Thanks again
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Those speeds are infinitely more than enough for gaming. You could happily game with a 1mb connection as long as it was stable.

You obviously never grew up in the 28.8 / 56k era when many of us happily gamed with 2- 500ms latency for hours on end :)
 
Hellsmk2 said:
Those speeds are infinitely more than enough for gaming. You could happily game with a 1mb connection as long as it was stable.

You obviously never grew up in the 28.8 / 56k era when many of us happily gamed with 2- 500ms latency for hours on end :)
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I do a bit more than gaming!! I had a very quick line in London, so missing that... Oh the sacrifice moving to the country!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

I'm 44 I remember them days!! ;)
 
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