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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
how many gamers you got living there needing more than 100 meg upload?
I used to run Medal of honor spearhead servers on a fraction of that
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Contrary to what many believe (and the ISP advertising would suggest), raw upload and download speed are not that important (within reason) for gaming. What is important is latency, and the two are only vaguely connected.
Historically, gaming in VM’s HFC areas was generally regarded as ‘problematic’, in the now defunct VM Community forum, you would find, many, many posts from gamers complaining that although they pay for the highest speed, they lag in games, lose and sometimes just get ejected. It was high latency.
And this was not helped by the underlying technology used in HFC connections. Without going into details it was massively geared to download rather than upload, latency was a bit of an afterthought, it really depended on where you were and just how many customers there were in that area.
And I still maintain that the only real justification to have a 2 Gbit connection is so you can brag about having a 2 Gbit connection.
