Enemy Territory playable on a slow connection?

[calyco]

Think about switching from Roadrunner to the new Verizon DSL service for $14.95 a month but dont know how well it will do with gaming. Would ET be playable at 768Kbps DSL?

 

[Malladine]

oh yeah.

 

[stratman]

768Kbps DSL is a slow connection?

ET will run fine

 

[BlueWeasel]

I was expecting this question to be about 56k. :roll:

 

[WT]

LoL .... same here, Weasel !! Yea, I played for quite some time when the game was out on my 768 Verizon connex and it was fine, probably a 60-70 ping. Upgrading to the Verizon 1.5 and now the 3.0 connex, my ping did not noticeably drop on the last upgrade as it had on the first two. After 1.5, I pinged around 45+, and the 3.0 DSL connex did not drop my ping more than 10ms, so I play at 35+ now.

 

[Noema]

I have 512Kbps DSL :Q, believe me, 768Kbps is not slow by any standard, unless you have to download 50Gigabytes of data everyday for some reason.

If you want slow...a friend asked me to help him clean the spyware on his PC yesterday. Since I didn't have my utilities CD with me I had to download everything from his computers (Adaware, MSantispyware, Avir, Spybot, etc). He has 56Kbps

It took almost 2 hours to download all that stuff. Now THAT'S slow.

Besides, most (if not all) online games use up just a tiny amount of bandwith. When playing WoW, for instance, It's always about 5KBps down and 2KBps up. It's all about Ping, and ping is not only about bandwith but also how far the server is from you counts. I get about 150ms in my WoW server (which a west coast server), but I'm in Mexico city, and the ping didn't change at all when I upgraded from 256 to 512.

I've also monitored X-Box live (which requires bandwith, can't be played with dial up). Again, the games I've tested (Halo 2 and SF2:Annyversary collection) barely go over the 6KBps mark.