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How fast is your internet?

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ryan0402

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I have a question about my internet speeds. We pay for 3kbp/s or whatever the amount of bits is and right now I am getting about 2.43kbp/s. Is it normal for the connection to differ from month to month.

I play games online and it has been going smoothly for the past couple of months but now all of a sudden whenever I go on and say my mom goes onto her computer and opens her email my game crashes causing me to reboot my computer.

So my question is, if you game how fast is your internet and is 3kbp/s fast enough to continue to play games? If it is not tell me how fast the bare minimum should be.

Who is your internet provider? (btw way mine is SBC Internet provider)
 
Is that your upload or download speed?

You can test it via www,speedtest.net or similar services.

Btw, 2.43Kb/s is not fast in any way, you meant Mb/s I guess?

That way you would have around 300KB/s as down- or upload speed.

1MB/s = 8Mb/s (Mbps)
 
ryan0402 said:
I have a question about my internet speeds. We pay for 3kbp/s or whatever the amount of bits is and right now I am getting about 2.43kbp/s. Is it normal for the connection to differ from month to month.

I play games online and it has been going smoothly for the past couple of months but now all of a sudden whenever I go on and say my mom goes onto her computer and opens her email my game crashes causing me to reboot my computer.

So my question is, if you game how fast is your internet and is 3kbp/s fast enough to continue to play games? If it is not tell me how fast the bare minimum should be.

Who is your internet provider? (btw way mine is SBC Internet provider)
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It's most definitely fast enough. And it's normal for your connection speeds to vary, based on the time of day and amount of traffic on your providers network.
 
download speed as of right now is 2.39mbps with a ping of 21ms
So my question now is why does my game consistently crash when someone else logs onto the internet.
 
:eek:. It takes hours and hours to download anything worthwhile.
 
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How's this?:D
 

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mine is 104 Mbps and my d/l speed maxes out at 90 kb/s :eek:. It hours and hours to download anything worthwhile.
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104 Mbps is 13 MB/s, an entire ripped film in SD quality (700MB) could be downloaded in less than a minute.

90 kb/s is obviously KB/s.

So what is your download or upload speed?
 
So campaign works fine. I went onto the multiplayer match ad about 3 minutes into it for no reason it just freezes but I can hear everything fine. So I turn off the computer and eject the disk and I see it has some light scratches that look like my iMacs optical drive has scratched it. Could it have made it so that some files are corrupted making multiplayer unplayable.
 
I get about 3.5 Mb/s down and about 0.5 Mb/s up. It's faster to use my cellphone...

Fortunately they're upgrading my street Soon™ which should push it up to about 40 Mb/s.
 
im running usually at 19Mb/s on fiber optic cable however with F/O cable it can be slightly affected by how many users in your area are on it, if you are on copper line ADSL this doesn't usually apply but what does apply is the distance from you to the exchange.
Im looking at upgrading to a new 100Mps line that uses a mix of fiber optic and telephone line in unison together

http://personal.optus.com.au/web/oc...l&SID=BBAFeat5:Must:OSC:BUN:OCA:BBHP:15112010
 
Yeah the internet in Japan is great. I don't even know what my speeds are because it's practically meaningless. It's some fiberoptic thing. Who knows. But it's fast, unlimited, and I pay virtually nothing for it. (I forget how much exactly but it's a tiny fee.) Wheeee!
 


Easily gets to 22-25Mb/s many times (even on Wifi)
For $10/month more, we can get 30Mb downloads. I don't think it will make a big enough difference for now because websites can only load so fast (and they are pretty fast instant already).
 
Not too bad through my Mac Mini and a Belkin N+. Comcast sucks support wise but as far as actual speed not too shabby.

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