I'm still seeing people making games with stupid stuff in the title like 'No wireless'
I wish people would learn a thing or two about latency, broadband and the game in general before acting like morons. Might save them from advertising to everyone how ignorant they are.
American = while the United States FCC, as of 2008, defines broadband as anything above 768 kbit/s.
When requirements such as 768kbps are put up they refer to download speed. Which, in this game, is not the bone of contention.
The average connection for most people is hovering at around 5mb/s on the download and the upload remains below 1mb/s. Or, at least it is in the UK and US.
Of course once you meet the bandwidth requirement of the game you also need a ping that doesn't fluctuate wildly or remain.. say.. above 400ms. The speed of your connection, by the way, has NOTHING to do with your latency in most cases. (I get roughly 450-500kbps yet my ping times are consistently 50 to 150ms lower than results 100m up the road in my work. My work has a connection capable of upwards of 3MB/s on the upload side alone but due to the network being rather bloated and going through multiple proxies the ping times are terribad and playing games just isnt going to happen)
Seriously though.. can people just stop running around spouting crap like 'OMG YOUR PING IS 200ms. YOU ARE GOING TO KILL OUR MATCH QQQQQQQQ' I had one guy accuse me of lagging us out with a ping of 180 and a sim speed of 8 playing at 3840x1024 with 16x AA and maxed settings on my graphics card/in game... Yeah.. I was lagging you bro, sorry.
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It isn't ridiculous. I don't see how so many people on these forums have such crap internet. My internet is the basic from comcast and i pull 30Mb-down , 4-5Mb/sec up ... $55 a month internet a-go-go?
For a start your using a cable provider which typically offer better speeds than others but is limited to where the cable coverage is (and also additionally in the UK the telephone exchange needs to be LLU enabled which means our telecom giant BT has to have allowed 3rd party providers the ability to install their own equipment into the exchange).
but tbh what you said there just stinks and the only thing you do is to prove that sometimes stereotypes are, in fact, correct.
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Meh, changed some wording.. tired and probably sounded a bit off. Apologies.