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[IWantWhiteCastle]

yea i usually get 30-50 ping, i do live pretty close to the servers tho. Ive only downloaded a few torrents before and they were slow as sh*t tho

[Constantine]

Ive got cable connection and have not had a problem for the last 2 yrs. Now, I get a good connections during the week, but when friday hits, the connection is crap. I've had an average of 400ping on the weekends and it pisses me off. During the week, when ther servers are full, I get good ping so I know its not lagging cause of the number of people playing. I called the provider and they say it shouldn't matter. f*ck them. It matters when I can't play on the weekends. Anyone have this problem?

[IWantWhiteCastle]

i have cable broadband and i dont have that bad of a problem. My ping has never gone over 70-100 because of it being the weekend or anything. Chances are, you probably have a lot of people that live in your area, and since its the weekend, there will be a lot of traffic from users. The more traffic on the broadband line the worse your connection will be.

[i_smoke_crayons]

I have Fios but its unstable as sh*t. It's almost not worth the 15 mbps download speed.

[ShLoNkY]

First off: Download/Upload speed doesnt have anything to do with Ping. DSL generally has higher ping times as they are distance sensitive. This means that if you are right next to one of their switches then you are golden, if you arent then you are f*cked. The phone companys (DSL carriers) say that with Cable, it matters if your whole block is on the INternet at the same time. This is NOT true in a sense that most cable providers SHOULD be able to pump out plenty of bandwidth for a whole neighborhood as they are on different trunks of the node. This IS true, however, cus it does matter if your whole block is on the Internet at the same time cuz the whole Internet is shared WITH EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD anyways. Thats what the Internet is. Generally ping times. Cable uses a hybrid fiber coax network. This means that they have MUCH more fiber everywhere than actual cable. If you read the fine print on the DSL ads, they advertise (in my area) 6mb/sec, but the fine print reads "up to 6mb." They guarantee youll get 3mb. Thats pretty sh*tty. Time Warner in my area guarentees a full 7mb/sec which ill get all day long off a fast site.

[wyte mafia]

I have a 24 meg a second, DSL connection but i only download at 5.5 megs a second.

[i_smoke_crayons]

Mine says up to 15 mbps, but I've seen it go up to 28 on a good day.

[S.W.A.T. 2.0]

First off: Download/Upload speed doesnt have anything to do with Ping. DSL generally has higher ping times as they are distance sensitive. This means that if you are right next to one of their switches then you are golden, if you arent then you are f*cked. The phone companys (DSL carriers) say that with Cable, it matters if your whole block is on the INternet at the same time. This is NOT true in a sense that most cable providers SHOULD be able to pump out plenty of bandwidth for a whole neighborhood as they are on different trunks of the node. This IS true, however, cus it does matter if your whole block is on the Internet at the same time cuz the whole Internet is shared WITH EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD anyways. Thats what the Internet is. Generally ping times. Cable uses a hybrid fiber coax network. This means that they have MUCH more fiber everywhere than actual cable. If you read the fine print on the DSL ads, they advertise (in my area) 6mb/sec, but the fine print reads "up to 6mb." They guarantee youll get 3mb. Thats pretty sh*tty. Time Warner in my area guarentees a full 7mb/sec which ill get all day long off a fast site.

So the fact that I live about 100 yards from the bellsouth building is a...good thing??