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Well, when I host games, a lot of people complain about the terrible lag. So, I was hoping increased upload speed would fix that.
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You're probably running a lot of programs that send and receive a lot of information, like 10 Dream Daemons or something.
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All downloads can be resumed - FilePlanet, RapidShare for example. But it works only if you know how
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Not all downloads. File servers which only support downloads starting at the beginning can't handle a request to "resume" a download. The services you mention, such as FilePlanet and RapidShare, probably use file serving software that does support that feature since they know their users are going to want it.
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Black Heart 720 wrote:
Well, when I host games, a lot of people complain about the terrible lag. So, I was hoping increased upload speed would fix that. Lag can come from a number of places. The internet is only as fast as it's slowest connection. To ensure this makes more sense... if you were downloading from me your download rate it insanely high. This means you are capable of downloading very quickly. However my upload rate is only 0.3MB/s so although you are capable of such high speed, your download is forcefully reduced due to the fact I can't upload as fast as you can download. That being said, depending on how many users are complaining, the lag could be on their own internet connection. I am not saying this is the truth just a possibility. You may also consider how much stress your computer is under. If you bring up task manager and your cpu is working at 90-100% the so-called *LAG* is not latency lag but CPU lag. That would mean that your computers workload is so high that is can not accomplish things in a timely fashion and of course this will be noticeable so that users will complain about it. On a side note the sheer fact your speed test shows results which are smashing everyone's here (well almost) tells me your connection is more than likely not the issue. Either your connecting users are suffering latency or your CPU or their CPU is under heavy strain. Regardless how you look at it the lag is coming from someplace but not your connection otherwise your speed result would not have been so great. Regards, Anthony | |
 Aw :( Used to have 100MBit download, but we ended up downsizing to 20mbit (seems we're still a bit above 20mbit though) | |
I wish I were back at Uni (on Spring Break at the moment). I get the impression that the only thing holding my bandwidth back there is my 100MBit LAN connection :-/. It makes buying stuff from Steam fun.
Home:  I'm almost certain we're meant to be getting 2MBit >:-/. [EDIT] found a link to a speedtest image from my University internets connection. It's a fairly slow one, depending on where I test to I get ~40-100MBit.  | |
Black Heart 720 wrote:
Im jelous, Ill never be able to host a decent byond server because of my connection  | |
PirateHead wrote:
Since this is clearly a penis measuring contest, I'd like to up the ante: I call BS! Thats a university ISP! :) Youll be throttled if you try to actually make use of that sexy network. | |
They do that in the US? We can just let rip on those University connections in the UK, 100 Mbit in most public areas and halls, usually 200 Mbit in the Computer Science labs (the CS stuff is limited, just to be nice to JANET).
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Yep, it sucks.
Guess mine might as well go public. I feel so small, but at least not the slowest. Not to mention my roommate is using the connection too right now.  Gah, wish I could have a better connection. George Gough [Edit] Wow, I totally messed that up. Better formed url on the way now. You know what I thought one time was enough but I still messed up. Much better now | |
Here's my home one:
 I'll post the CS labs one when I go in next. | |
One thing seems to have been forgotten: Australians don't count. You guys live all the way down there AND your own government is concerned with the "criminal gene" still being present in your population, so you deserve to have such slow speeds. =P