latency difference between 384, 512 and 1024 line

[Necuno]

if any; is there a mayor enough differences between those three concerning latency in wow, well the only 3 options we have for dsl line speeds.

 

[lord_spaceman]

Lately I've been getting around 750ms. I'm on a Telkom 384 line with a shaped 2GB account and I live in Durbz.

 

[Necuno]

Lately I've been getting around 750ms. I'm on a Telkom 384 line with a shaped 2GB account and I live in Durbz.

so 384k line with unshaped is ok for one person; two person rather go 512k ?

 

[Heckers]

Yeah, a bigger line doesnt mean it goes faster....it just means more can go through at a time.
But with something like WOW it doesnt send that much information and will never really benefit from a bigger line.
What will make more of a difference is whether you get shaped or unshaped bandwidth.

 

[Surv0]

Doesnt matter the speed of your line, you ping will be the same, obviously the more people playing on the line the worse the ping will be.

 

[Necuno]

Doesnt matter the speed of your line, you ping will be the same, obviously the more people playing on the line the worse the ping will be.

ok so 512k would be better for 2 person sharing that 384k..

 

[Scoliosis]

obviously the more people playing on the line the worse the ping will be.

My ping is anything from 350-500 on a 384 line with an unshaped account. When I dualbox 3 accounts on the same line, it drops to 500-600, but is still very playable.

 

[Barfish88]

I got 2 ppl playing on my 384 line no problems and our latency is 350-500 on a semi shaped account.

 

[stoke]

Na, 2 peeps on a 384 is fine, even for heavy throughput games like Battlefield 2.
3 peeps is pushing it though.
I did notice that some of the WoW auction / map addons do download lots of information from independent websites, which will affect the lag verry negatively. So, when you're PVP'ing, just ask the other peep on the line to not use the map and auction addons till you're done.

 

[Skurm]

In my experience, 1 person needs between 128K and 256K for the game to perform acceptably in raiding. For solo pve/small group stuff, you can go as low as 64K (ISDN) quite easily without seeing your ping suffer. It really isn't about the width of the pipe, but whether those bits are getting from A to B without too many hops, being throttled etc.

A 384K line, for one person, will perform as well as a 4meg one will.

 

[HavocXphere]

For 1 person there is a difference, but its negligible.

 

[Necuno]

ok cool, thnx for replies