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Sephiroth · 28-04-2010, 23:11

You don't need 50 meg for gaming. 1½ meg downstream is perfectly good (as we've proved with our ADSL connexion).

What you do need is reliable on demand upstream timeslots. The 50 meg users share 1 single 9 meg upstream channel per node (Igni might say 1 or 2 nodes). That's absolutely bugger all when people get busy gaming and P2P-ing. Gaming needs frequent timeslots of small data packets - but very frequent and you don't want to be waiting for everyone else.

Actually I think that if you're on the newer overlay network the 20 meg users have the same upstream problem. Maybe Igni can confirm or otherwise.

28-04-2010, 23:11	#112
Sephiroth Wisdom & truth Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: RG41 Services: RG41: 1Gig VOLT Rutland: Gigaclear 400/400 Posts: 12,555	Re: Why I regret joining virgin media You don't need 50 meg for gaming. 1½ meg downstream is perfectly good (as we've proved with our ADSL connexion). What you do need is reliable on demand upstream timeslots. The 50 meg users share 1 single 9 meg upstream channel per node (Igni might say 1 or 2 nodes). That's absolutely bugger all when people get busy gaming and P2P-ing. Gaming needs frequent timeslots of small data packets - but very frequent and you don't want to be waiting for everyone else. Actually I think that if you're on the newer overlay network the 20 meg users have the same upstream problem. Maybe Igni can confirm or otherwise. __________________ *Seph.* My advice is at your risk.