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Originally Posted by pallys
Currently Im on 300/64 and basically when quaking online I have to limit the amount of packets i can send using cl_maxpackets 30 in quake3 game as the upload speed is far too low. This in turn doesnt allow me to get a lowest real draw ping possible, and clan mates from NL etc get a better ping than me to uk game servers such as Jolt.co.uk.
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*Sigh* and he is under the impression this higher upload speed will improve his pings on quake 3, which it will not.
I apologise for daring to disagree with you even though you didn't read his post properly / don't understand why higher uploads are useless / recommend ****e ISPs with appauling records for customer service, speeds and latency.
I was rushed at the time of posting and didn't have time to flower my response up with crap and just stuck to the facts - sorry if this offends however there's far too much crap flying about how great ADSL and certain providers are, check my corrections to Dr Awesome's all knowing (copy/pasted or completely inaccurate) ADSL thread or any of the other crap flowing on this forum about ADSL, there's tons of misinformation.
To be honest I think the powers that be should consider chucking the ADSL section and replacing it with a link to
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk, that way won't have people putting down as gospel that exchanges with ADSL get better reach by having DSLAMs added, that USB uses PPPoA and ethernet routers PPPoE, etc, nor that Bulldog are great.
Finally I'll repeat again, Q3 packets are of 200-ish bytes in size, most servers only accept ~ 30 updates/sec (the fps switch in the server config) so 200 x 30 - 6kB which is comfortably within the upload cap. The big data transfers are downstream when it gets hectic with loads of players on. Q3 works low pinging on all ntl tiers, and on 64k ISDN, and if OP is concerned about his pings I would have been happy to have a look at his connection and see what's up.
I'll sod off where I'm not criticised for daring to criticise one of the golden b0llocks crew - frankly the pro-DSL tone from certain moderators along with the BS misinformation that thrives and anti-ntl slant placed on various news stories is tiresome, fighting a losing battle is boring, I'll stick to working hard for customers behind the scenes, as I get it thrown in my face on here.