42KBPS for 150K?

01-06-2004, 16:29

Since my broadband has been running slow, I decided to run a BroadBand speed test on it. I checked the download, which came back with 136KBPS and I thought was alright, but the upload confused me. It came back as 42KBPS, when I thought it's supposed to be 64KBPS?

Is there any reason why mine is this low? And do I have to ring NTL up about this? I would like to host my Half-Life Sven Co-Op servers when my mates want to play

Bifta · 01-06-2004, 16:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Since my broadband has been running slow, I decided to run a BroadBand speed test on it. I checked the download, which came back with 136KBPS and I thought was alright, but the upload confused me. It came back as 42KBPS, when I thought it's supposed to be 64KBPS?

Is there any reason why mine is this low? And do I have to ring NTL up about this? I would like to host my Half-Life Sven Co-Op servers when my mates want to play

even with the 128k upload on the 600k service (or whatever it is now) you'd be hard pushed to run any gaming server that has more than 1 or 2 players.

Stuart W · 01-06-2004, 17:02

I has 128 up and 256 down which I ran a 6 player Battlefield 1942 server on without trouble.

With 600down and 256 up it was happy to run 12 players.

The secret with running game servers on low bandwidth connections is setting up the server to run reduced speed clients.
I set BF1942 up to run 56k clients

Chris W · 01-06-2004, 18:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Since my broadband has been running slow, I decided to run a BroadBand speed test on it. I checked the download, which came back with 136KBPS and I thought was alright, but the upload confused me. It came back as 42KBPS, when I thought it's supposed to be 64KBPS?

Is there any reason why mine is this low? And do I have to ring NTL up about this? I would like to host my Half-Life Sven Co-Op servers when my mates want to play

The maximum possible upload 64kbps, but this does not mean that it will run at that speed 24/7. Do you notice that the speed changes at any particular times of day? ie evenings?

btw

to the site

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01-06-2004, 19:00

Thanks for the welcome

I did see changes at different times, in the morning it would be very fast, and in the evening a bit slow. Hopefully they fix this problem

BBKing · 02-06-2004, 08:24

Is it a problem though? It's not a 64k upload it's an up-to-64k upload. On a contended service there aren't any service speed guarantees.

02-06-2004, 09:12

It's a problem now, because my pings on Half-Life keep spiking to 400 then dropping to 40, so it's hard to play.

BBKing · 02-06-2004, 10:10

Right, that's a different matter entirely. Spiking pings is either a slow route to the end server or local congestion. Best way to check if it's local is to ping your default gateway IP address about 1000 times and watch the reply times (when *nothing* else is using the connection and you're 100% certain you're virus and trojan free).