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Old 03-11-2005, 16:04   #1611
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Re: ntl Confirms 10Mb Broadband Speed Increase

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Originally Posted by PCNutter
Actually the higher the upload the better the ping .

At the moment I am on bulldog 8 meg down, 579 up, and when I play on most uk servers I have a ping between 15-20.

However when I was on nildram 2mb down, 256 up I had a ping around 30/40.
That's not true. Upload has very little to do with ping response times, and upload has nothing to do with the speeds we're talking about.

A ping can be faster or slower due to the number of hops, the quality of the network etc
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