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Noggo · 16-09-2008, 15:42

You'll find no difference with your connection for gaming by upgrading from M to the L package (be it to 4 Meg or if your UBR has been upgraded 10 Meg). Games just don't use a lot of bandwidth. e.g. Games like Quake 3 or 4 and Unreal Tournament 2k4 or 3 all use around 10KB/s.

I'm on XL 20 Meg and get exactly the same latency to games servers as a friend who has L 4Meg and he's about half a mile away from me on the same UBR. Now when the UBR had capacity issues, we both had problems with erratic latency, packet loss and bad download speeds.

If you really want to go down that route, upgrade to `L' package and if you don't see any improvement downgrade after 1 Month, back to your `M' package.

16-09-2008, 15:42	#8
Noggo Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kidderminster Services: VM XL broadband, Sky+ TV and BT phone Posts: 670	Re: Virgin lag :O not unusual You'll find no difference with your connection for gaming by upgrading from M to the L package (be it to 4 Meg or if your UBR has been upgraded 10 Meg). Games just don't use a lot of bandwidth. e.g. Games like Quake 3 or 4 and Unreal Tournament 2k4 or 3 all use around 10KB/s. I'm on XL 20 Meg and get exactly the same latency to games servers as a friend who has L 4Meg and he's about half a mile away from me on the same UBR. Now when the UBR had capacity issues, we both had problems with erratic latency, packet loss and bad download speeds. If you really want to go down that route, upgrade to `L' package and if you don't see any improvement downgrade after 1 Month, back to your `M' package.