Online FPS's including Steam games...

[Sobersoldier]

Hi Guys,

2 questions...

Who here plays FPS's on an ADSL 384 connection and what's it like?

When you play steam games (Half Life 2, CSS & DOD) on the Saix servers do you only utilize local bandwidth or is it local and international?

Thanks

 

[willirob]

FPS fine on 384 ADSL - I have played CS:S and DOD:S and found no problems with lagging at all.

Think it only utilises local bandwidth - but still counts towards your Cap. Could try a local only account ...

 

[The_Techie]

A friend of mine is on 384Kbps ADSL, he says he has no problems with lag at all. He didn't know about the bandwidth usage, though...

 

[Sobersoldier]

Ok cool... Thanks for the info guys...

 

[wmaker]

I've been playing the FPS Red Orchestra from Steam on 384 almost daily for a year now - at first on a shaped account, which is a bit hairy (360ms ping, "jerky", sometimes kicks), but lately on unshaped. Fastest pings in the 250ms range. This is quite playable and you can get a good score.

 

[willirob]

I usually get pings of sub 100ms for SAIX servers. A rough figure for bandwidth is about 50MB/hour

 

[Freakazo v2.1]

I swore somewhere on telkoms website it said something like:to reduce bandwidth usage download files from saix.co.za which will not count to your cap

but can't find it anymore, maybe it's been removed?

[edit] and oh yeah it is only local only bandwidth. but a local only account doesn't work with some games which need to login at international servers

 

[Razer0]

I've been playing the FPS Red Orchestra from Steam on 384 almost daily for a year now - at first on a shaped account, which is a bit hairy (360ms ping, "jerky", sometimes kicks), but lately on unshaped. Fastest pings in the 250ms range. This is quite playable and you can get a good score.

Does that unshaped account make a difference to local latency as well?

 

[CrazyMadMan]

No it does not.