Author Topic: two questions (Read 1453 times)

68DevilM · « **on:** November 11, 2004, 11:09:34 AM »

first, my wife wants to swap from road runner to DSL, but im a little in doubt about what it will do to my game play!

anyone know wich one is better?

second question is, since patch two the ground in the game looks really fuzzy, im gonna try to update to the new ati drivers but last week when i updated, i kept getting timed out when connecting ah. is anyone else experiancing this problem?

chaingun · « **Reply #1 on:** November 11, 2004, 11:21:16 AM »

Hey 68 dvl, rdrunner is ok i had it for awhile, lil too expensive switched to grandecom.com, different cable provider no problems at all, oh by the way i live in Texas, dont know if they hve grande elsewhere

jpeg · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2004, 11:28:46 AM »

DSL is always iffy. There are so many factors that determine if dsl connection is good for you. It may be good for you but suck for someone down the street.

There are many factors such as the distance you have from your place to the closest switching box for your telephone company, the quality of your wires in your house and many others.

I would recommend going to
http://www.dslreports.com
and finding reviews on the dsl company and check in their forums to see if someone in your area has posted anything about your dsl company.

VWE · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2004, 11:51:19 AM »

If it aint broke, why fix it? Your asking for trouble... chances are you'll find it.

Zanth · « **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2004, 12:08:19 PM »

Does your wife know dsl (in most popular flavors) is slower?

JB73 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2004, 12:20:19 PM »

yeah DSL tons slower, and almost the same price....

yeah they might have an intorductory price for 3 months or something, but after right back up to the higher prices.

not to mention the price of the new hardware, installition, so on.

Deth7 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 11, 2004, 12:34:40 PM »

I have 3Meg Dsl with bellsouth fer 39.99 just as fast if not faster than cable

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #7 on:** November 11, 2004, 12:45:09 PM »

On average, DSL will have lower transfer speeds and higher latency than cable. Latency is just as important as transfer speed.

Karnak · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2004, 12:50:21 PM »

DSL tends to have lower bandwidth than cable, but lower latency.

DSL is better for games whereas Cable is better if you like downloading large files frequently.

DSL is also more stable and reliable than Cable.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:01:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Karnak
DSL tends to have lower bandwidth than cable, but lower latency.

DSL is better for games whereas Cable is better if you like downloading large files frequently.

DSL is also more stable and reliable than Cable.

Assuming a "normal" condition you are mistaken on most accounts. I have had everything you can imagine over the years and what I said above is accurate. BTW, don't even think of satelite... its worse than 56k in most cases.

Karnak · « **Reply #10 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:09:07 PM »

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Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
Assuming a "normal" condition you are mistaken on most accounts. I have had everything you can imagine over the years and what I said above is accurate. BTW, don't even think of satelite... its worse than 56k in most cases.

My experience and reading both disagree with you in regards to Cable/DSL.

As to satalite, you are very correct, that is not for gaming.

WMLute · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:10:37 PM »

I used SBC comunications DSL and after about 3 months, I payed the early term. fee and told them to stick it.

Bandwith about 1/2 of what I was/am getting on a cable modem. All around horrible tech support, and my d/l speeds were TERRIBLY slow.

Don't go DSL.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:46:10 PM »

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Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
Assuming a "normal" condition you are mistaken on most accounts. I have had everything you can imagine over the years and what I said above is accurate. BTW, don't even think of satelite... its worse than 56k in most cases.

Mosty I agree on the sat. issue, but you have to realize there are different types. The basic sat. high speed internet hookup has broadband speed downloads, but uploads thorugh the phone line. They do have true broadband sat. connections that have high speed both ways but weather can really affect your data transfer rates. You also typically have to buy the equipment and it costs somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 bucks. Plus the monthly fee is nearly twice what cable is (or it was when I looked into it 2 years ago).

SunKing · « **Reply #13 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:57:56 PM »

DSL is being phased out. Definetly not the future. She's making a wrong decision. Stay with cable.

Karnak · « **Reply #14 on:** November 11, 2004, 02:10:52 PM »

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Originally posted by SunKing
DSL is being phased out. Definetly not the future. She's making a wrong decision. Stay with cable.

Where have you read this?

It certainly isn't being phased out in the Bay Area.

Cable sucks. Other people leach off your bandwidth. You get frequent outages. Your ping times are worse.

Author Topic: two questions (Read 1453 times)

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