Online Gaming Study Suggests Internet Sucks Globally
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I live in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a major regional city of around 120,000 people. I have no access to cable or DSL broadband, only dial-up. Consequently, I am running an Optus USB Aircard, works kinda like a mobile phone (cell phone for you Americans). gets me ok speeds, I suppose. Somedays, I even get up to 2Mb/s dl speed. My ping is unsalvagable though. That's where it stays.
I hate you as well. THERE IS NO MIDDLE FINGER BIG ENOUGH! Lucky bastard.Tharwen said:In my opinion, a connection is good if it can download a 1080p youtube video faster than it plays. My home connection is not good...
Also, I think every article and post pertaining to internet speeds should come with an explanation of the difference between bits and bytes. Either that, or ISPs should be legally required to use bytes like every other technology company in the world.
...RazielXT said:Well, Slovakia here, I have 11mbps home and its considered low compared to other ISPs, no worries though as I am on college so we have as much speed as it physically goes (100mbps, upgrade to 1gbps in progress)
[http://www.speedtest.net]
I just stared at that impossibly high number for several seconds before violently gesticulating in rage and envy.
I hate you.
Our main problem ( in canada at least ) seems to be size and greedy ass cable companies owning major portions of the infrastructure.
Rogers and Bell have caps on their useage and it still costs 40-50 bucks a month plus overages, because cmon 60 gbs what is that a weeks worth of netflix? half of a steam summer sale?
They could get off their ass and beef up the internet access like crazy, but let's be honest canadians have 2 hurdles as compared to south korea or japan.
1, canada is 9,984,670 km2 south korea is 100,210 km2 you could fit their whole nation into ours 99.6 times and japan at 377,944 km2 fits 26.4 times. Needless to say that is a whole lot more work than either of those had to do let alone manage.
2. I need a joke to tell the shareholders "Hey guys we are dipping into profits in order to increase speeds and help canadians get ahead by building massive improvements to be on top" response " hahahaha, iz good because, seriously they can use phone line modems and still pay us 60 a month"
Rogers and Bell have caps on their useage and it still costs 40-50 bucks a month plus overages, because cmon 60 gbs what is that a weeks worth of netflix? half of a steam summer sale?
They could get off their ass and beef up the internet access like crazy, but let's be honest canadians have 2 hurdles as compared to south korea or japan.
1, canada is 9,984,670 km2 south korea is 100,210 km2 you could fit their whole nation into ours 99.6 times and japan at 377,944 km2 fits 26.4 times. Needless to say that is a whole lot more work than either of those had to do let alone manage.
2. I need a joke to tell the shareholders "Hey guys we are dipping into profits in order to increase speeds and help canadians get ahead by building massive improvements to be on top" response " hahahaha, iz good because, seriously they can use phone line modems and still pay us 60 a month"
You sir, just made my day. This is the thinking of every Australian ISP as well.XT inc said:
You are not alone my Canadian Brother! As members of the Commonwealth, we must stand together to fight against the oppression of the ISP's! TO ARMS! TO ARMS!
... and this is why I keep telling my dad to upgrade the internet speed in this house... because when downloading, the speed averages out to 160Mb/s on average, with fluctuations ranging from 30Mb/s to 215Mb/s... usually lower rather than higher though...
*Addendum*
yeah... just found out my tech lingo was a bit skewed... apparently a lowercase b represents bits... not bytes... who boy...
*Addendum*
yeah... just found out my tech lingo was a bit skewed... apparently a lowercase b represents bits... not bytes... who boy...
I miss my Japan speed at Japanese prices when I lived over there. I would average 90Mb/s down and 77Mb/s up with almost no ping. It was 40 bucks a month.
Now I deal with Comcast, I average 15Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up, average 120ms ping, AND it costs so much more. I guess bombing the hell out of Japan's infrastructure wasn't all bad for them, just mostly.
Now I deal with Comcast, I average 15Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up, average 120ms ping, AND it costs so much more. I guess bombing the hell out of Japan's infrastructure wasn't all bad for them, just mostly.
This is what my school gets at lunch time with a few people downloading on it, max speed is around 30mb/s download and of course my schools gets it free off the government
Meh.
it does its job well enough, at least nationally, I do have to tolerate pings of over 150ms whenever I play on international servers, this is pretty bad on Bad Company 2.
it does its job well enough, at least nationally, I do have to tolerate pings of over 150ms whenever I play on international servers, this is pretty bad on Bad Company 2.
In America's defense, its area is 3 million miles sq. That's a lot of ground to cover with fiber optic cable, which is expensive enough. Some companies are trying to change that though.
I work for Verizon Fios, so I know residential customers can get up to 35/35, and if you run a business 150/50 (like that one gentleman mentioned earlier). Honestly, once you have 5Mbps, anything above that feels negligible if you're just browsing the web. The only place those speeds will really matter is in direct downloads, file transfers, and gaming.
I work for Verizon Fios, so I know residential customers can get up to 35/35, and if you run a business 150/50 (like that one gentleman mentioned earlier). Honestly, once you have 5Mbps, anything above that feels negligible if you're just browsing the web. The only place those speeds will really matter is in direct downloads, file transfers, and gaming.
I'd say most of you should consider yourself fucking lucky. Some people ***** about only getting 2-5 Megabytes a second download, try doing it with this:
That, is the disgusting average internet of Australia. Not only do we pay $50 a month for it, but we cant get better because the major line company Telstra, is lazy and will not fix or upgrade lines.
That, is the disgusting average internet of Australia. Not only do we pay $50 a month for it, but we cant get better because the major line company Telstra, is lazy and will not fix or upgrade lines.
Mine's worse then that, the only reason I haven't switched ISP's is because I get a really low ping with my current one and it's cheap. I don't have much lag, but it takes ages to download something and forget streaming HD video.Ziadaine said:I'd say most of you should consider yourself fucking lucky. Some people ***** about only getting 2-5 Megabytes a second download, try doing it with this:
That, is the disgusting average internet of Australia. Not only do we pay $50 a month for it, but we cant get better because the major line company Telstra, is lazy and will not fix or upgrade lines.
They're already full retard my friend.Woodsey said:
In Aus, 3Mbps isn't so bad (300KB = 3000Kb = 3Mb) considering the highest most can get is only 10Mbps, and the privaleged few (read: country towns) can get 100Mbps.
Also:
That's what I get to the US. Apparently, anything above 100 is unplayable for competitive gaming. Then you have to add on what that kid down the block who thinks his 25.6KB/s is uber sick downloading 3 things at once (and still getting host) and it regularly hits 400+ (on WoW alone it's 400+, great work blizz).
To the nearest server it's 27ms.
I would suggest that you try a server closer to you.. since that server is ~7950mile from you..rapidoud said:They're already full retard my friend.Woodsey said:
In Aus, 3Mbps isn't so bad (300KB = 3000Kb = 3Mb) considering the highest most can get is only 10Mbps, and the privaleged few (read: country towns) can get 100Mbps.
Also:[http://www.speedtest.net]
That's what I get to the US. Apparently, anything above 100 is unplayable for competitive gaming. Then you have to add on what that kid down the block who thinks his 25.6KB/s is uber sick downloading 3 things at once (and still getting host) and it regularly hits 400+ (on WoW alone it's 400+, great work blizz).
To the nearest server it's 27ms.
arggh averages can be dragged down so much thats why china is so low and Im in aus and I get around 800 killa bytes per second
also My internet isn't that bad for online gaming even though it says my ping to a random american server is 246ms
hell I just realised something as long as it gets the job done i don't give a shit
also 100gig cap used to be 50gig cap (so so bad..) HURRY UP NATIONAL BROADBAND i don't want anymore caps
also My internet isn't that bad for online gaming even though it says my ping to a random american server is 246ms
hell I just realised something as long as it gets the job done i don't give a shit
also 100gig cap used to be 50gig cap (so so bad..) HURRY UP NATIONAL BROADBAND i don't want anymore caps