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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
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.
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Yes sir - anyone on the overlay network, regardless of tier, uses the same upstream capacity.
If speedfreak could paste his downstream frequency it would confirm which network he's connected to.