Best ISP for COD?

Well hung

What is the best all round internet service provider for call of duty and online gaming in general, currently on 20mb UPC but it doesn't seem to be that great for gaming.

GEasy

Well hung wrote: »

What is the best all round internet service provider for call of duty and online gaming in general, currently on 20mb UPC but it doesn't seem to be that great for gaming.

I would think UPC are one of the best if you don't use that crappy modem router they supply.
Not many providing fibre optic broadband at the moment in ireland :mad:

Kells...

UPC unless your going to play with Certain people on Boards...... :P

Socialist_Pig

doesnt really matter what speed you have its all about the ping.

Played CoD for years on a 3 meg line with eircom with no problems

GEasy

Socialist_Pig wrote: »

doesnt really matter what speed you have its all about the ping.

Played CoD for years on a 3 meg line with eircom with no problems

It's easier to pull host if you have a decent upload. I did using mobile broadband with 1.5 up and a decent ping

Previously: host = easy mode

zero19

UPC 25mb works grand for me, router used to disconnect a lot till I changed a few settings no issues now.

Shammy

TroutFisher wrote: »

UPC unless your going to play with Certain people on Boards...... :P

My 2 meg upload and low ping beats upc's 7 meg upload 8/10 times

I have become the outcast

Well hung

zero19 wrote: »

UPC 25mb works grand for me, router used to disconnect a lot till I changed a few settings no issues now.

This the main problem I have, how would I go about fixing this issue? Log into the modem?

Enigma IE

UPC, 25MB download, usually 2MB up. Pull host more often than not.

Moving in with the missus soon, just got the UPC 25MB installed in her place last week, no way I was moving in using her poxy 2MB Irish Broadband!

Enigma IE

Shammy wrote: »

My 2 meg upload and low ping beats upc's 7 meg upload 8/10 times

I have become the outcast

It's a coont.

Enigma IE

Well hung wrote: »

This the main problem I have, how would I go about fixing this issue? Log into the modem?

The default admin username and password are both blank i.e. nothing. Highsec.

hightower1

LakesKeane wrote: »

I would think UPC are one of the best if you don't use that crappy modem router they supply.
Not many providing fibre optic broadband at the moment in ireland :mad:

Only the back / mid end is fiber, from area equipment to the house its co-ax. In fact nealy every ISPs back end is fiber, it would be near impossible to run a modern ISP any other way (aside from sat bb). Its just marketing spin that has you thinking its "new" fiber broadband, think of it this way.... the ads came out overnight but did someone come into your house to run fiber lines? Nope. It was exactly th same line before and after the adverts.
Same with every ISP.

As far as I know magnet are the only ISP doing FTTH (fiber to the home) supply and even that is very very limited in terms of footprint. Eircom are trialing this is Dublin also but on a very small scale... its more of a publicity thing than anything else.


As far as the initial question... no ISP really has an advantage over another for online gaming. Your looking for low , consistant pings with a reasonible upload. One person may have great SNR margins on their eircom line but may have terrible SNR margins on their co-ax harness in house for UPC. The same could happen vice versa so the only real way to know for yourself is to take them both. Get Eircom and UPC installed , they both have minimum cooling off periods so get both in and test them. Send back the one you find worse. You'll know within a day mostly.

Dont listen to anyone saying "Eircom are crap for me" or "UPC are terrible" because you have no idea how PC litterate anyone of these people are, you have no idea how they are using the services and you have no idea how they have their equipment configured.

GEasy

hightower1 wrote: »

Only the back / mid end is fiber, from area equipment to the house its co-ax. In fact nealy every ISPs back end is fiber, it would be near impossible to run a modern ISP any other way (aside from sat bb). Its just marketing spin that has you thinking its "new" fiber broadband, think of it this way.... the ads came out overnight but did someone come into your house to run fiber lines? Nope. It was exactly th same line before and after the adverts.
Same with every ISP.

As far as I know magnet are the only ISP doing FTTH (fiber to the home) supply and even that is very very limited in terms of footprint. Eircom are trialing this is Dublin also but on a very small scale... its more of a publicity thing than anything else.


As far as the initial question... no ISP really has an advantage over another for online gaming. Your looking for low , consistant pings with a reasonible upload. One person may have great SNR margins on their eircom line but may have terrible SNR margins on their co-ax harness in house for UPC. The same could happen vice versa so the only real way to know for yourself is to take them both. Get Eircom and UPC installed , they both have minimum cooling off periods so get both in and test them. Send back the one you find worse. You'll know within a day mostly.

Dont listen to anyone saying "Eircom are crap for me" or "UPC are terrible" because you have no idea how PC litterate anyone of these people are, you have no idea how they are using the services and you have no idea how they have their equipment configured.

I know, didn't want to write a big speil about it. Not everyone on the COD forum is as involved in comms like you seem to be.

zero19

Well hung wrote: »

This the main problem I have, how would I go about fixing this issue? Log into the modem?

Ironically my internet has been down since 11.30pm last night til 6.30 ish today, all I did to stop losing connection was use software to scan what wifi channels were being used by my neighbours, most UPC routers were on channel 11 or 6 for some reason, a default setting maybe? I changed my router to a different channel and never lose connection now.

Socialist_Pig

zero19 wrote: »

I changed my router to a different channel and never lose connection now.

if you have loads of wireless networks around you and they all broadcast on the same channels it can cause the connect to drop.its like 15 different radio stations broadcasting at the same time and your connection hears snippets of other peoples networks and crashs.

another strange fact to think about is that no ISP gaurantee's a wireless connection,too many variables.


@hightowers comment about peoples tech know how,tell me about it.

I work in tech support and I think I'm lucky I get to workon strange and foreign software such as windows 9 and have to deal with people thtat when I say click on the start button they turn the pc off.

Also I despice anything to do with apple..overpriced pieces of sh1t..you paid THAT much??!!to check your email and facebook???! LOLLOLLOL...

sorry got carried away / rant