NTL Download CAP's ?

[UnReaL]

Whilst the games are playing over the Internet I've ran a few speed tests from adslguide.org, I seem to get 8000kb/s+ Download and 450kb/s+ Upload, its quite weird, unless theres something I have no knowledge of?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Zeph

2MBit - > 10MBit will make absolutely no difference in Unreal whatsoever. If you are seeing a difference, it's related to something else entirely.

Ahh but dont forget about the upstream, 200kps on 2mbit vs 512kps on 10mbit.

[SnoopZ]

Upgrading from 2Mbit to 10Mbit made no difference to my gaming experience. Also the pings were just the same, around 20-30 on average to a UK server.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Upgrading from 2Mbit to 10Mbit made no difference to my gaming experience. Also the pings were just the same, around 20-30 on average to a UK server.

do you play BF2?

just asking because we are on 2mbit ntl and my bro moans like crazy thats it lags whenever i go online, even if all i do is open a webpage (cableforum) for example

[UnReaL]

Exactly dragon, that was exactly what I used to do - minus the moaning, I used get really bad lag spikes, although I still have doubts over the upload issue, because during gameplay I used to press Alt + Tab (sends you back to windows whilst game is running). Ran speed tests and still I got full upload speed and download speed its like the game wasn't getting affected (like playing through the LAN).

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by dragon

do you play BF2?

just asking because we are on 2mbit ntl and my bro moans like crazy thats it lags whenever i go online, even if all i do is open a webpage (cableforum) for example

I've played alot of BF2 with it yes on an Athlon XP3200 1.5 gig of pc3200 ram but did play fine with 1gig too. Ati 9800pro all settings to medium and at 1280x1024. And as i've said pings are perfect for me.

Maybe i'm just lucky where i live with my NTL connection as i've always been able to max out my speed anytime of the day.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I've played alot of BF2 with it yes on an Athlon XP3200 1.5 gig of pc3200 ram but did play fine with 1gig too. Ati 9800pro all settings to medium and at 1280x1024. And as i've said pings are perfect for me.

Maybe i'm just lucky where i live with my NTL connection as i've always been able to max out my speed anytime of the day.

must be the way i open wepages then forgot that i do tend to run firefox with fasterfox set to open a fair few connection using pipelineing

thats probably what kills his ping.

[Graham M]

True my meaning was if he was just playing the game instead of BitTorrenting at the same time

[UnReaL]

lol, if that was aimed at me - I don't bit-torrent at all, never have, never will. I play games and browse the internet, bittorrent is out of the question!

[JoeBloggs]

css i get no lag at all, some non-europeon servers i will get a high pings (130-300) and the odd lag-spike... but uk/euro servers i get pings 5-80... i get 10+ on a particular server runs nice.

I used to get a bad bf2 gameplay with my old system (P4 2.8/P4P800SE/1GB/, especially with a old linksys befsr51 router.

I have now upgraded my router to a WRT54GSV4 and also got a 939 system running with 2GB of ram. (amd3700/a8n-sli/kingston 4x512MB/7800GT)

BF2 is now running sweet on high settings, i blame my hardware for all the lag i used to get, but this might not be the case with everyone else.

Dragon, be interested to know what your brother's setup is (pc, router make etc)

[Toto]

Originally Posted by UnReaL

Interesting issue, I play *UnReaL* Tournament 2004 every day for as long as twelve hours at once, with break in between, however calculating the amount of bandwith going through each second, on average and calulating each minutes usage, then going onto each hour - followed by how many hours played.

Gives a total of just over 5Gb a day, timings that by lets say 30 days is a whopping total, so *HOW* does one get around this problem?, I need 10mb unlimited

I hope NTL are reading these forum threads and taking notice.

Paying £34.99 is fair enough to me, but the 75Gb useage doesn't help with what I've said.

Heard nothing so far?

Should I panick?, its never happened to me before, when I was with Nildram and their 50Gb caps, lets hope for the best.

By the way guys, this is excluding normal useage such as browsing websites (e.g. Cable Forum, the inquirer.com, theregister.co.uk, channel4.com/sport/football_italia and all sorts), gosh the list goes on and on!

I think I'm a typical user, expect the only difference is bandwith is used nearly all the time due to connections to the game server and things

BTW - If NTL UNlimited was to come out soon, I don't think we should be paying anymore then we do now for 10mB... just a thought!

12 hours a day

AND you have time to do "other" things on the Internet. !!!

I would not class you as a typcial user, unless there are those here who are going to admit to the same level of online game time

[JoeBloggs]

i spend about 3-8hrs daily playing games, sad maybe but fun. lol

[UnReaL]

Although the 75Gb Caps are a worry, not really bothered what NTL think as they don't seem to pay attention to those who actually have a legitament cause as to why they use the bandwith soo much.

With the likes of Telewest - there terms of use policy states that after two hours of continuous useage - they reserve the right to deny bandwith to a user. They do not state how much bandwith, as they've said continuous useage, that isn't fair either.

I could have been playing for three hours, breaking a few records, only to have myself disconnected from the Internet, because I'm playing a multiplayer internet game that Telewest think is eating up their bandwith, however, they are the ones eating up my wallet, my money.