Relocation for de nation

Belegon

Belegon

In Cryo Sleep
Finally got the keys to my new House, so from wed/thurs night (15th/16th) ile be offline for moving and reconnection to the internet. Depending on how easy the move is and transfering address for internet and stuffs - i could be away for a while (coz BT = shite).

Rest assured i will be back, unfortunatly for all you! Muhahahahaha!
 
Belegon

Belegon

In Cryo Sleep
OK, finaly in new Place, Internets should be installed within 7 days, but it is BT, so prob longer... :(

However, i will only have a 1Mb connection Max, so its gonna be pretty shit for me. If its too slow, it could mean the end of Rofls online gaming :(

Any one here got a shite connection? whats it like to play on and can it be improved?
 
Windzarko

Windzarko

Well-Known Member
1Mb should be fine for WoW; I used to play shooters just fine on 56k, I don't think WoW will suffer that much unless you go to a particularly active Wintergrasp or somesuch.

I'm not an expert on fiddling with connections, but I've heard something about being able to play with packet size or something like that for small performance gains? I dunno, i r nub with that kind of stuff.
 
Razaak

Razaak

Well-Known Member
To be honest, your connection speed isn't a major factor, 1 meg should be quick enough, as long as it's stable and reliable.

Stable 1mb > Dodgy 8mb any day!

I played WoW on 56k dialup for a week when I first moved house - latency was too much for raiding, but questing and solo stuff was fine, so don't panic :)
 
thatbloke

thatbloke

Junior Administrator
as long as your latency isnt too bad then you should be fine... the amount of bandwidth that WoW uses is quite small
 
Jayde

Jayde

In Cryo Sleep
What they said. WoW will use much less than 10% of your 1 MBit line. What's more important is that you don't have packet loss and that your latency is reasonable. If you're on DSL, your provider might offer a FastPath option that reduces latency by disabling interleaving, an error correction technique that is mostly rubbish these days anyway. But for WoW I wouldn't even worry too much about that.
 
Leiz

Leiz

In Cryo Sleep
Well I'm playing on 512 and don't find it bad. Unless the <insert lots of nasty insults here> next door starts torrent...
 
Jinxer

Jinxer

In Cryo Sleep
Leiz said:
Well I'm playing on 512 and don't find it bad. Unless the <insert lots of nasty insults here> next door starts torrent...
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Just get down and keel him already.

And I have to say, I've gone from a 56k to an 8mb connection and the latency really hasn't improved hugely, just more stable but that's due to the area I'm in... a town rather than the middle of nowhere miles away from anything of vague importance. Having said that, means I can run more stuff at once, can have three computers connected to the internet and playing WoW all at the the same time here on most days.
 
Jinxer

Jinxer

In Cryo Sleep
Windzarko said:
Wrong. You never used to game online with that connection, I was the one that did, and trust me, it was craaaap.
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Incorrect. Before moving house, I used it as did the small one off two computers. We had average latencies but frequent DCs; but it was surviveable.
 
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