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[HavocXphere]

Throughput is not exactly what gamers should be looking at though.

For local gaming I've found IS based accounts to be best. Intl gaming - I"ll leave that to the WoW crowd.

[FarligOpptreden]

I'm lucky to be on a 10Mbps fibre line at the moment... 5ms local latency, 10.2Mbps download 9.8Mbps upload. Waiting for ISP to offer faster line speeds on the package I signed up for.

[blaaislaai]

I'm lucky to be on a 10Mbps fibre line at the moment... 5ms local latency, 10.2Mbps download 9.8Mbps upload. Waiting for ISP to offer faster line speeds on the package I signed up for.

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Sitting with a congested telkom exchange, latency is awesome during the day, until around 18:00ish it starts to jump and average around 100ms. Can still play my local games without lag, but it doesn't feel 'right'

[FarligOpptreden]

Luckily, I have none of those issues. The contention ratio on our fibre is very low (seeing as about 10 people in the estate are on it), so I get a full 1.2 megaBYTES download speed pretty much always. Guild Wars 2 is also a dream to play on such low latency, averaging about 170ms to international servers (used to be 190ms at best on ADSL).

[Grievous]

Throughput is not exactly what gamers should be looking at though.

For local gaming I've found IS based accounts to be best. Intl gaming - I"ll leave that to the WoW crowd.

Exactly, I've mentioned this before in other threads. Latency is the issue, not whether you line can do 5mb/s. You can still download at 5mb/s but have a latency of over a 1 second. High download speeds are important for volume of the data not for how long it takes for a server to respond.