post the computer u will be playing planetsde on

[Gammit10]

Originally posted by Unico
Damn Gammit, I wish I had a 1.5 mb/s connection.

It's pretty freakin' nice, I must say. I actually "kind of" got it for PS. Was tossing around the idea as a "I may soon get my first real job" gift to myself, and found a company who charges less for the internet connection plus cable TV than I was paying for cable TV alone!

P.S. my upload is 256k, I believe.

[Sentrosi]

CPU: AMD XP 2200+
MotherBoard: Epox 8RDA+
RAM: 512GB DDR PC2700 x1
Video Card: Albatron GeForce4 TI 4200 128MB DDR
Sound Card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz/On-board sound (not sure which I'll choose from)
Hard Drive: 40GB 7200RPM Western Digital w/ 8.4GB backup
Internet Conn: Cable

Need anything else?

[Drex]

Asus A7N8X nForce2 SPP/MCP DDR266/333 USB 2.0 AGP8X Audio .
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton" (333MHz FSB).
512MB Corsair PC2700 DDR400 CMX512-3200C2.
40GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA/100 WD400BB.
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.
DSL.

Hope mine is good enough to run Planetside

[SpacemanSpiff]

Originally posted by Gammit10
It's pretty freakin' nice, I must say. I actually "kind of" got it for PS. Was tossing around the idea as a "I may soon get my first real job" gift to myself, and found a company who charges less for the internet connection plus cable TV than I was paying for cable TV alone!

P.S. my upload is 256k, I believe.

256k upload? Ah, then I misunderstood... I didn't know you got cable. Well, blech then. I'm spending the extra money for better latency and 768 SDSL (that's up and down).

The only reason I'm getting broadband is for PS... and it's all about the upload.

[colinisinhere]

Originally posted by Gammit10
It's pretty freakin' nice, I must say. I actually "kind of" got it for PS. Was tossing around the idea as a "I may soon get my first real job" gift to myself, and found a company who charges less for the internet connection plus cable TV than I was paying for cable TV alone!

P.S. my upload is 256k, I believe.

I hope you are talking about bits not bites! lol
im gonna test my connection in a sec at dslreports.com, ill tell you what i get...

[colinisinhere]

428k down and 218k up... but thats with msn messenger and aim running, and the connection is split with a router now but it wont when i get planetside (asuming i get it )

[SpacemanSpiff]

That should be more than enough to enjoy a PS bash.

[colinisinhere]

are you talking about my connection? its supposed to be 512 but normaly hangs around 400's and upload is suposed to be 256 but stays up t like 230

pretty good altogether ... but i wish it would stay closer to 512k

[Trebor95]

I dont think you will ever get full 512k and 256k - its something to do with bits and bytes, and the line quality, its basically like 56k - its very difficult to get full connection speeds on normal lines (if not impossible to get true 56k connection)

the speeds you are getting sound about right, you wont need to get rid of the router i dont think, unless it prevents you from accessing the servers etc. etc.

[Gammit10]

Actually, with my 56k modem, I regularly recorded speeds of 52k. Now, with my1.5Mb broadband, I have YET to record speeds under 1.3Mb.

For $15 a month, I'll take a "slow" upload speed of 256k with a dl speed of 1.5Mb!!! I'm sure I will have problem 0 playing PS with that upload (and no, it's not ALL about upload speed)... at least, that's what I was told.. hoping it's true.

Yes, that's 1.5 MegaBITS per second. MegaBYTES would be nuts.

[Drex]

I have DSL. How do I tell what my download/upload speeds are?