Hopefully you're right sir!

That speed test uses megabits (Mb) lower case b not megabytes (MB) capital B... And megabits are different to megabytes

This post was edited by Goten on Aug 12 2012 07:51pm

Are you serious? 500KB/s is 2.5x more than 2Mb/s (200KB/s)

Not only that, World of warcraft can run on 50KB/s outside raids. Any game on the planet can run at 500KB/s

Clueless people seem to think how much kbs you have determines how good your connection will be.. Once you have like 200kbs ANY game will run perfectly.

There are other factors like latency (has no relation to download speed), unstable connections which fluctuate from good to bad and so on. Some of the can be fixed by setting up your modem and wiring well, others might be issues out of your controll.

Either way your download speed is MORE than enough to handle the biggest castle seiges... If you are having issues then that's NOT the problem.

This post was edited by IIFOXII on Aug 12 2012 08:42pm

Huh?

You are confusing MB and Mb. One is 8x larger than the other. Internet speeds are qutoed in Mb, so devide that by 10 (yes they ripp you off, it should be devided by 8) and that's your MB speed (the speed which people understand)

So a 2Mb connection is actually 200KB/s
A 2MB connection is 2000KB/s... or 2megabytes per second

I have a 15Mb connection, so I get speeds of around 1.5MB per second.

This is all tangential to the issue though. The answer to the OP's question is: Your connection speed is fine. If you are having problems then there is something else causing it. Try calling your internet provider for support.

It could be outdated hardware, poor line quality (try plugging your modem into a diferent phone socket) or it could be any number of factors out of your control.

Are you retarded or just retarded? That's what I just said... Once again, another clueless person.

No need to call everyone retarded. You aren't communicating very clearly to be perfectly honest and it makes it hard to reply to you.

Either way leaving this thread since it's just a few fuckwits egoboosting off each other and no one is even trying to help the OP.

This post was edited by IIFOXII on Aug 12 2012 09:15pm

He is communicating fine. I read his post and was like "yes is correct information". I read your post and asked my self why is he repeating what he just said but tried to say he was wrong?


Anyways to answer the OP's question, unless you have dial-up you'll be fine

bits and bytes

You people are dumb as hell. You can game, even on shooters which use more bandwidth than MMOs, on a 64k ISDN connection just fine if you want to. Yea a 64k, all that matters is the latency and the tiny amount of bandwidth required which is gonna be about 5k/s under normal conditions maybe up to 10-20k in high traffic/raid situations. My first ever internet connection was a triple digit baud modem (thinking 600 baud) which couldn't be used for any form of gaming, not that much existed by today's standards. Eventually I upgraded to a 33.6 and then a 56k modem both of which were used for gaming (quake 1 team fortress) and put out playable pings around mid 100s to low 200s to servers within a few states of me. Finally it was 64k ISDN which is like ghetto adsl, then 128k (which, mind you, didn't reduce my pings AT ALL over 64k simply by doubling my bandwidth). You kids who have never used anything but cable / fios etc make me laugh.