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Graham M · 23-08-2004, 09:15

It depends very much on the game you are playing, for instance, Counter Strike only takes about 2kb/s up and down stream simultaneously when you are playing, this is game specific, CS:Source based on a new game and server engine takes about 1 each way. Enemy Territory takes about 5up/down. As you can see the bandwidth requirement varies from game to game. It isn't that important and while playing games, the only real difference between 300-750-1.5 is that you get more leeway for Downloading while you are playing without too much lag (depending on the speed of the download of course) The real important think when playing games is the latency between your modem and the server, IE your ping, because of the intricacies of IP Routing, your Packets can make anything between 3 and 30 hops before they reach the server you are playing on, just look at a trace route to find out if even one of these hops is bad then it will cause your whole game to jerk and lag. If you are getting lag all the time a trace route is a good way to go to find out where the problem lies.

Hmmm Essay over for now.

23-08-2004, 09:15	#21
Graham M Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Poole, Dorset Age: 41 Services: FreeSat+ Tivo V-Box VM 60MBit Posts: 13,365	Re: 300K to 750K stupid question but will I see a difference? It depends very much on the game you are playing, for instance, Counter Strike only takes about 2kb/s up and down stream simultaneously when you are playing, this is game specific, CS:Source based on a new game and server engine takes about 1 each way. Enemy Territory takes about 5up/down. As you can see the bandwidth requirement varies from game to game. It isn't that important and while playing games, the only real difference between 300-750-1.5 is that you get more leeway for Downloading while you are playing without too much lag (depending on the speed of the download of course) The real important think when playing games is the latency between your modem and the server, IE your ping, because of the intricacies of IP Routing, your Packets can make anything between 3 and 30 hops before they reach the server you are playing on, just look at a trace route to find out if even one of these hops is bad then it will cause your whole game to jerk and lag. If you are getting lag all the time a trace route is a good way to go to find out where the problem lies. Hmmm Essay over for now.