virgin 30meg to sky 5meg

[RobTi]

Hi canceled virgin and going to sky only worry is son plays online and wondered what it will be like going from 30 meg to 5 to 6 meg for gaming

Thanks

Robert

[Hoonigan]

Shouldn't make all that much difference in gaming tbh.

Bandwidth isn't the issue with online gaming, it's latencies (The amount of time that a packet takes to travel to its destination) that you need to keep an eye on.

Generally, Cable is better than BT phone lines for latencies, but with BT phone lines, it depends on many many factors.

[IronWarrior]

Why would you do that?

Going to take him forever for him to download and update games now with that speed.

For example, Total Warfare: Shogun had a 20GB update last night and BF3 updates are pretty large as well.

[HoldenBurn1000]

Why would you do that?

Going to take him forever for him to download and update games now with that speed.

For example, Total Warfare: Shogun had a 20GB update last night and BF3 updates are pretty large as well.

20gb update?! What the hell did they add!

But on topic, I online game a lot on 6mb and it's fine. As said before its your ping that your going to need to check out. No way of testing that until your all hooked up though unfortunately.

[RobTi]

Thanks for the replies havea friends and family discount so moving for that reason

[IronWarrior]

Sounds like a bad move to me, since Virgin was going to increase your speed from 30mb to 50mb in a few months.

20gb update?! What the hell did they add!

But on topic, I online game a lot on 6mb and it's fine. As said before its your ping that your going to need to check out. No way of testing that until your all hooked up though unfortunately.

Lots of fixes and updates, for example, 22 new maps.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/7583/

[jim]

For example, Total Warfare: Shogun had a 20GB update last night

Are you sure? According to steam, it's still under 16GB in total, and my patch was just over 5GB.

Anyway, as mentioned previously, changing download speed won't negatively affect gaming, it'll just make your downloads slower. Whether Sky will have a better or worse ping than Virgin, that's hard to say.

[RobTi]

[QUOTE=IronWarrior;2374201]Sounds like a bad move to me, since Virgin was going to increase your speed from 30mb to 50mb in a few months.QUOTE]

Not for my area over a year for us, only went with sky as i get all the channels bar movies and sport for £10 less than virgin which was broadband and phone

Robert