whats considered a fast connection for xbox live?

[Nvidiaguy07]

Im getting sick of sniping some jerk who isnt even moving and shooting him like 5 times in the chest and somehow he doesnt die. Sometimes my connection is ok but sometimes it sucks. Im using AT&T U-Verse 6Mbps package. with a 50ms ping on average. Heres my speedtest results:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/388612440.png

Whats considered "fast" for XBL? Is it worth it to upgrade to 10 or 18Mbps? they come with the same 1.5Mbps upload speed and im assuming the same ping.

Whats everybody else using and hows that workin out?

 

[gorcorps]

I have comcast and it works great for the most part. The 'lag' seen depends quite a bit on the game too. A poor connection will ruin me quickly in Halo 3 but CoD4 is pretty forgiving with the lag. I can have a pretty piss poor connection and have very few problems.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

whats your UL/DL and ping?

 

[leglez]

I don't have any problems, Speedtest. That scares me though because I was planning on upgrading to ATT 6Meg later this month.

 

[blurredvision]

Here's a couple of mine on a supposed 10Mb/1Mb service:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/388728483.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/388729083.png

Looks like my download speed has been increased. I may have to look around and see if Time Warner up'd the speeds on my plan.

 

[Crizza]

I play CoD on 768k DSL with no problem. I'll never be selected as host, but I always have good pings.

 

[Queasy]

I've got AT&T 6mbps (non-Uverse) and I have a pretty good connection for the most part. No complaints. I've had a couple of times where connection issues have caused problems playing but those are few and far between and due to something outside of normal usage (like hardware issues on AT&T's side).

 

[AstroManLuca]

Qwest 7 Mbit DSL here. I'm often selected as the host for games and I rarely have lag problems.

 

[purbeast0]

I have Verizon DSL 3Mb and I don't really lag much at all.

The only game I've seen issues on is COD4 and it's the really annoying kind of lag where what happens on my screen isn't what is reall happening in the game.

 

[spidey07]

Games use very little bandwidth. What you're seeing is packet loss, delay and jitter. Even a 384 connect is good for games.

 

[mugs]

It's not the bandwidth that matters, it's the latency.