how many.....

Martron

How many xbox can play online on a 3mb line?

assuming its an average 3mb line ( eircom) playing bfbc2

CRenegade

Is it a 3mb line or are you actually getting 3mb?

If ya actually getting 3mb i would say that you should be able to have 3 people online at same time but after that you might loose quality. Preferably have only 2 people on it at once though to be sure.

Martron

thats what i was thinkin alright. i get like 2.7mb usually. but you know when you need it it will slow down

CRenegade

Yeah, wouldnt go more than two people then at 2.7mb. Im not an expert on this but just from my own experiences.

calex71

The bandwidth of 3mb is not much of a factor , you could easially have 10 people playing on that without issue. What is a factor is the pings. Once the ping is nice and low gameplay won't be effected.

Now if one console was downloading a demo or something that would effect things but obviously you are all going to be playing games.

My connection is regularly used buy 3 of us for games, one pc and 2 360's at the same time no problems and 2 laptops could be in use connected to the network.
Thats me though, and from my experience in the past of eircom in the evening the pings can be bad to say the least

Martron

is yours a 3mb line?

DeVore

3mb line should be fine. I regularly race Forza on 3-4 different xboxen at our lans and that needs xbox live to work. 3mb, if its running at anything like its proper speed should be fine. If you give us an idea of what you are looking to do and we can tell you if it will work...

The number of users is important but what they are going to be doing on the line is just as important.

DeV.

Martron

3 mates are coming over with their xboxes to play bad company 2 . there will be no other use on the line only the xboxes.

DeVore

Easy money, you shouldn't notice a thing.... if you do, its not because of the 3mb capacity, its because you would be having similar issues even if there was one of you.

You shouldnt have any trouble at all...

DeV.

naughto

i can host 3 players and iam using the 02 dongle yoke as some other poster said it all about the ping if u have a good ping u will have a good quailty game

TheMooseInNam

Each xbox 360 will only use about 15kbps both up and down when connected to XBL. It uses hardly any bandwidth. As has been stated before, PING is very important but also the QoS (quality of service). This is how consist your connection is when streaming information. What you don't want is much packet loss either. You can check your connection out on the link below. Then you'll know exactly how good your connection is. It'll give you a full breakdown.

http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed.php

Martron

quality of service was 84% . should be alright. but you know when you set this type of sh1t up something always goes wrong. cheers for your help.

robinph

The original requirement for Live was only to have a 512k line at whatever quality they were at the time. It's all about the pings though.