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Zucas said: Wooh my speed must be a beast compared to yalls haha:
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So sorry to upset you bro. but even if you have a quite good connection, your ping over that distance is just below average... you should be getting like 30-40ms for that kind of connection, not 99ms as you have!
See, fotr online gaming it's not like that you have to have tons of capacity on your connection as packets are really small (maybe 64B to 1KB), what gives you advantage (and hence no lag) is ping time from your console/pc to the server and back!
Connection with higher ping are good to send and receive loads of data, for work or for fun (images, projects, videos) but aren't the best for playing!
I was playing for some months on LIVE! on an old ISDN connection which maxes out a theorical 128/128 Kbps (with two channels online) and I was still able to beat some asses on Halo 3 (team rockets was unplayable though). Even if not much capable it was quite fast. That's why US college guys are so lucky: even if they don't have much bandwidth they have monstrous ping time!
Also, think about this: if you hook up on an old 10Mbps LAN switch to play locally(even inferior to some new and blazing fast internet connection, such as ramuji) you still get no lag as the ping time is virtually zero. I bet it won't even saturate the bandwidth (unless there are tons of console /pc hooked up)! So that proves that people don't need ungodly high bandwidth, just a good connection and really low ping!
