WoW & NTL

[TomL]

So anyone experiencing the intense latency problems I am when playing WoW? Usually a ping of 300ms, never drops below 200ms, fine in everything else save for the odd bit of packet loss/choke on Counter-Strike: Source.

Currently using NTL 4Mb, previously used Wanadoo 2Mb but was basically capped at 1Mb because of my distance from the exchange - ie, massive errors flooding in on 2Mb resulting in disconnects ever 15 or so minutes.

Would I see an improvement going back to ADSL on 1Mb, as opposed to cable on 4Mb?

 

[Moley]

Cable should be much better than ADSL. I used to have NTL when I lived with my parents and the ping rate was excellent. I had some problems initially because I was trying to run the Cable Modem and TV box from the same cable with just a splitter, NTL came out and fixed that by removing the splitter and running a second cable from the box.

 

[TomL]

Yeah it's pretty good, I will always have a ping of < 40ms on CSS, don't know what's up with my connection to the WoW servers to be honest, and their tech support forums are a waste of time - perhaps someone here can look at one of my tracerts.

 

[Caged]

It's impossible to give a blanket response as to what the pings will be better on - get an ADSL provider with good routing and it will beat a cable ISP with poor routing. It's not really the technology that determines whether the ping is low or not, it's the people running it.

 

[Phemo]

Cable should be much better than ADSL. I used to have NTL when I lived with my parents and the ping rate was excellent. I had some problems initially because I was trying to run the Cable Modem and TV box from the same cable with just a splitter, NTL came out and fixed that by removing the splitter and running a second cable from the box.

Bizarre, that's all they did with my cable - both TV and cable modem are plugged into a splitter off a single cable and it's been fine for several months now. Wonder what else they did