Gamesplayers : Did you notice any ping diff with upgrade? :

Anarchist

I was told countless times in this thread that there would be no diff in gaming and I was 512/128, Now that I am 2048/128 I can now say after extensive tests I def have minimum 20-30 improvement.
In a almost full server playing HL2 with the normally sapping Overwatch map I am getting between 40-45 whereas b4 it would be between 65-85ish.
This thread has not being done b4 I checked search........

garthv

I didnt notice much of a difference,altho i was on a french server for a few seconds(cs 1.6)
noticing a major difference in download speeds tho :DDD

Mutant_Fruit

Extra upload bandwidth would make little to no difference (with one player) and extra download bandwidth would make absolutely no difference. However interleaving settings would make a huge difference. Maybe they got changed...

Giblet

Upload would make a difference. You could up the maxpackets in games like Q3 and COD to 125 (whereas now anything above 100 causes ping to go up, the same as on 512)

Anarchist

I have pld all morning and on busy servers between 40-48
joy oh joy!
so much smoother too.

OfflerCrocGod

No difference whatsoever to me and my ping maybe it's the placebo effect :rolleyes:

DubPsycho

Im down about another 5 or so on Medal Of Honour on my UK based server.

kjt

w000000000t woke up to the 2mg this morning

Off to cs now.. I usualy get 30/40 ping to uk servers so I'm not expecting much change.

padraigf

The download increase will help to be able to increase your max cl_updaterate and cl_rate in source engine games.

kjt

Helps your ping by 10/15, helped my friend by 10 too.
Down to 25 on uk servers mwuahaha.

jonski

made no difference to mine

Dinner

No differance to mine either. Still have a fairly high ping of 150 - 200

padraigf

You must be playing on American servers Arabel....

OfflerCrocGod

Arabel wrote:

No differance to mine either. Still have a fairly high ping of 150 - 200

Those are some nasty pings are you pinging a UK server? ping jolt.co.uk and see what you get if you still get such high numbers then you may want to phone up your ISP and complain.

tuxy

well im getting about 3 ms lower when i ping boards but i dont know if that has anything to do with the upgrade

K!LL!@N

My pings have been going a bit haywire all day.
Playing CS:S it can go from 60 to 160, but still remain playable.
Download speeds have been amazing though.
Hopefully it's just some teething problems.
I'm with IOL BB+ by the way.

Killian

Dinner

padraigf wrote:

You must be playing on American servers Arabel....

I believe I am, I'll keep an eye out for ones nearer to home.

Dinner

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Those are some nasty pings are you pinging a UK server? ping jolt.co.uk and see what you get if you still get such high numbers then you may want to phone up your ISP and complain.

I pinged jolt and got an average of 142ms.

I'm with UTV

tuxy

Arabel wrote:

I pinged jolt and got an average of 142ms.

I'm with UTV

utv is poor for gamers alright my ping to jolt using eircom is 35ms

Jumpy

PIngs have shot from 50 to 300 avg at the moment, somethings up.

Fenster

Aye, my ping in World of Warcraft (I play US) is way down.

Cina

Prime Time now so I'm pinging about 200-250 to most servers in comparison to my normal 40-70. Needless to say I am displeased, hopefully it won't be a regular occurance.

PcP

They've gotten pretty bad here tonight:

C:\>ping clarity.jolt.co.uk -n 10

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=150ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 125ms, Maximum = 178ms, Average = 154ms

If everyone could stop downloading on their fancy new connections, that would be great. ta

kjt

Pinging jolt I got 31, on Iol BB+

Love these dl speeds

kjt

Who you with PcP?

Mine are fine

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C:\ping clarity.jolt.co.uk -n 10

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 37ms

cregser

Here's a lovely graph to show how smooth and steady my pings are.

JNive

getting an absolutely flat-out ping of 28ms to jolt, using PPPoA with VCMux encapsulation. was getting 35ms using PPPoE 20 minutes ago :-)

tuxy

do you know how to change to PPPoA on the router eircom give out?

JNive

if thats the netopia usb/ethernet one i can check a bit later, my girlfriend has that package. but definitely seems like less tcp overhead too, my browser is unaffected by my BT client which is going at 110/6 . Gonna be doing some thorough testing lol.

Giblet

JNive, post your pings to the following.

games5.iol.ie
www.jolt.co.uk

thanks.

tuxy

JNive wrote:

if thats the netopia usb/ethernet one i can check a bit later

yup thats the one

JNive

games5.iol.ie : 18-20ms
jolt.co.uk : 27-28ms

OfflerCrocGod

JNive wrote:

getting an absolutely flat-out ping of 28ms to jolt, using PPPoA with VCMux encapsulation. was getting 35ms using PPPoE 20 minutes ago :-)

/Adds JNive to list of people first against the wall when I become King Of The World; right next to €ircon management

JNive

Also, i use a D-Link DSL-300g+ ADSL Modem & DI-614+ Wireless NAT Router

tuxy

found the option 30 ping on jolt.co.uk now
thanks JNive

OfflerCrocGod

My ping seems to be back to normal; my downloads are not proper 2Mb but 140K is enough I'll see what tommorow brings.

JNive

what was your old ping tux :-) glad to hear an improvement :-)

tuxy

my old ping was 36/38

JNive

definite improvement i think :-)

tuxy

i wonder would this help gamers on the business package with interleaving set to high

Baldy

tuxy wrote:

found the option 30 ping on jolt.co.uk now
thanks JNive

Chimps, Chimps the lot of you!



Might wanna take a look at this before you say you switched over to PPPoA

http://www.jeacle.ie/pub/articles/adsl/

Vikings

Pinging jolt im getting anywhere from 120ms to 240ms with the odd 80ms thrown in now and again. About 81ms to games5.iol.ie.

Going to try some gaming now, see how that "goes".

tuxy

i had a glance at that page Baldy and i dont see why PPPoA would be bad for gaming

whats with all the people posting pings and not saying what isp they are on?
there is more than 1 dsl isp you know, even if they just sell the same wholesale product backhaul is differnt

so im not getting 20 ms to boards.ie and 30 ms to jolt.co.uk on eircom home plus

Baldy

tuxy wrote:

i had a glance at that page Baldy and i dont see why PPPoA would be bad for gaming

It's bad for gaming cause the Eircom network only supports PPPoE. PPPoA is available on english networks and is more efficient on the client but this is not available on Irish networks, while the backbone is an ATM network, information is represent in Ethernet format still.

tuxy

Baldy wrote:

It's bad for gaming cause the Eircom network only supports PPPoE. PPPoA is available on english networks and is more efficient on the client but this is not available on Irish networks, while the backbone is an ATM network, information is represent in Ethernet format still.

how come PPPoA works for me then and why is my ping lower with my router set to PPPoA?

Tazzle

I'm with these guys, I changed over to PPPoA, ping dropped 10ms and my downloads became more stable. It's zee truth.

Baldy

tuxy wrote:

how come PPPoA works for me then and why is my ping lower with my router set to PPPoA?

I'm sure ur router is setting itself back to PPPoE, probably resorting to a last known good configuration is my best bet. When ISP are you on?

Vikings

With Eircom, plus package. Just tried to play some online games there and had a very unstable ping. Half the time it was 1500+ and half the time it was playable although not normal.

tuxy

Baldy wrote:

I'm sure ur router is setting itself back to PPPoE, probably resorting to a last known good configuration is my best bet. When ISP are you on?

eircom as stated in my previous posts
that does not explain the drop in ping for everyone who has tried it so far

Baldy

IncredibleBulk wrote:

With Eircom, plus package. Just tried to play some online games there and had a very unstable ping. Half the time it was 1500+ and half the time it was playable although not normal.

Try a restart on the router if the pings are unstable. Are you on a network of several computers or do you have an unprotected wireless access point? Cause if it's reaching 1500+ I would imagine someone is downloading through ur connection

Baldy

tuxy wrote:

eircom as stated in my previous posts
that does not explain the drop in ping for everyone who has tried it so far

Ring Eircom and ask them about PPPoA setting tomorrow! It's just a change in network condition congestion on the network, etc. How long did you leave the ping going can I ask ? or what are ping are you using max, average, or min results ?