Bulldog 4Mbps ADSL

[Spud1]

yeah i just checked the u/l and your right, but the upload rate does affect pings, i'm pretty sure of that

[Gordy]

http://www.ukonline.net/8000/

8meg service from these people! Shame I'm just too far away

[javalord]

yeah i just checked the u/l and your right, but the upload rate does affect pings, i'm pretty sure of that

It doesnt.

I'm 100% sure of this. Went home recently and played Day of defeat on my laptop, got 20-35ms on a 300k line which only has 64k upload stream.

I got the same result when the line was at 1.5mbit.

If you still dont believe me, you can always download netlimiter (or similar) and cap the upload for the game to say, 7KB/s. Im sure its not going to effect your results.

The only way of improving latency on a cable network is to own a cable modem that allows the user to switch their upstream to another (i.e. the Surfboard SB5100 I own for telewest) , or try to bump into someone on the net who has that power and wouldnt mind switching you to a less utilised upstream.

Your other alternative is to switch to ADSL, but having seen on some sites lately that 10-15% of BT's exchanges with ADSL are overloaded, I'd look into it a bit more first hand.

And as for CS:S latency results between 30-40ms, I got the same on my NTL line, despite Day of defeat getting between 20-35ms. I wouldnt worry about it too much.