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ping on a 256k connection?

Latency and bandwidth are totally unrelated....so it depends what type of connection it is...Wireless? DSL? Cable? Satellite?
 
What would be 256k/256k? It couldn't be ADSL by definition. It almost certainly isn't Cable or satellite. I don't know about wireless so I'm guessing single line DSL? I have 256k/128k DSL and get 40 ms to a good number of Counter Strike: Source servers.
 
Originally posted by: Sniper82
Adelphia cable offers 256k/256k for $24.95 a month.
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That's like RR lite, except RR has faster DL. I am fairly certain latency will be the same unless they give lower priority to the cheaper accounts?
 
Originally posted by: Green Man
That's awful! I get 5000/512 for 34.95/mo
Don't they have anything better for a couple extra bucks?
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Right now I am paying $21.95 for like 3mb but it only lasts 3 months. After that it's around $40.
 
Ping is unrelated to bandwidth. A ping represents the amount of time it takes for one packet to travel round trip from your computer to a remote computer. THere are many things that impact ping including the distance between servers, and the type of cable between the two sites. For example, you could have a 256/256 direct connection to a box in the next room and probably get a pretty good ping (10-30ms probably) but you could also have a satellite connection and when you try to ping the box in the next room over that connection you would get 400-500ms.
 
just to get technical bandwidth does impact ping.

It takes so much time to put the frame onto the wire with a slower clock speed. On low speed connections like 256k it has an impact.
 
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