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super412
19-06-2006, 09:53 PM
Im currently with bulldog, and it has to be the worst for playing games online. It d/c's reguallry, has quite a bit of packetless & has quite bad pings, UK servs = 30ms+! Anybody know of a good ISP with low pings to UK and european servers?
Thanks!

cdh555
20-06-2006, 10:24 AM
I've been with both Nildram and Zen in the past (ADSL).
Both of which have excellent connections for gaming into Europe.

bladesftp
20-06-2006, 11:01 AM
TW seems to be preety good in my eyes never had any problems with them and a few of my m8s who play online games are all on tw and say its the best they have used for gaming

super412
20-06-2006, 01:29 PM
ah thanks!
I'll check em out :)

j00
20-06-2006, 02:48 PM
With NTL on game servers i get the best ping, i have had 4 ping - 8 ping however usually have 12 ping as a average in my area.

The-Wappy-One
20-06-2006, 03:03 PM
Ones you should look out for are ones where deals that are too good to be true...

normaly because loads sign up to there services there network gets a bashing and can result insome terrible pings.

Bulldog -- Clasic eg came on the scene and were excelent value.. what happend .. terribel ping and disconnected quiet frequently ...

If your a serious gamer i recomend cable for some of the best pings...

but also a note Optomise your game connections

Remember all games are set for a default speed (tends to be dialup) but your on broadband and you can send far bigger packets of data to the server so check out your game and optomise it

EG

Day of defeat source .. out of the box is configed for dial up

Default Settings (Aprox carnt remember the true values)

rate 10000
cl_updaterate 33
cl_cmdrate 33

Optomised Settings for 4mb broadband and up

rate 25000
cl_updaterate 100
cl_cmdrate 100

and i get a lot better hits rate and my ping floats form 10 to 40 depends what server i play on..


hope that helps alittle

super412
20-06-2006, 03:44 PM
Ah yeah!
Thanks, i've done that, im a lan player, but when i get online i cant hit anything :> and get beaten by noobs, damn bulldog!

Think im gonna go with the 10mb NTL as ive just noticed they took the 75gb cap off :D

marc4760
20-06-2006, 06:19 PM
I also use NTL and works great for me for pc gaming also works good with xbconnect

The-Wappy-One
21-06-2006, 02:53 PM
Optomised connection and 10mb cable line = Happy me

Ping is on the right hand side

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4992/ping1rr.jpg

super412
21-06-2006, 03:47 PM
nice! ;D
nice flag caps too :>