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cellguru
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| Speeds & Latency required for Xbox
What kind of speeds and ping are necessary to get decent performance with the Xbox or Wi?
We have a customer looking at a Cradlepoint router, '»wirelessnwifi.com' but I have no idea what thresholds will give him acceptable throughput.
He is getting 1200 down, 250 up, and pings in the 300 range.
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just2stoned
Just2stoned
join:2006-02-06
Spring Hope, NC
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June 25th, @09:41AM
| 300ms is about as high as you want for a FPS game. The latency is good if it can stay there consistantly. They will notice it won't be instantaneous response, like if you were playing single player, but it should be acceptable. 300ms is .3 of a second so I mean that isn't that long of a delay. I play on dial up for my mmo's(wow,eq2) and I usually have a 150-200ms ping out of game, but in game it's more like 400-600ms always. That's fine for mmo's but FPS games require the lowest possible latency. After all, if you shot at someone, and .3 seconds later it would hit the target, that .3ms could be enough time for that player to have left the spot at which you fired. Unlikely but possible. I used to play battlefield 1942 on dial with up to 16 players just fine though, and that was probably 400-800ms pings in game. I would say it would work fine though in general. Here, this is Wildblue's satellite internet speed test for ya...
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join:2007-10-29
Olar, SC
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| reply to cellguru
Don't use speedtest.net to judge your ping. It's never right when using EVDO for some reason.
Open up a command prompt and type: ping wwww.google.com
or some other website, and that will give you a more accurate listing of your ping stats compared to the speedtest.net site.
For example I just did a speed test at st.net and it shows up as 474ms. I directly ping www.carolinanet.net (same one speedtest used), and it shows an average ping of 166ms.
I play on live just fine with most games, and some games don't work very well. Madden 08 is virtually unplayable.
Gears of war works, iffy, but playable most of the time. Forza 2, Call of Duty 4, Halo 2, Halo 3, and GHIII, all work near perfect for me.
I use my Nintendo DS Lite with my EVDO, as well as my PSP too.
I hope that gives you an idea of what you can expect with a decent signal. | |
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