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| Dragon Rage UO Staff
 
  
 Joined: 10 Sep 2003
 Posts: 524
 Location: Atlanta
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:45 am |  
| Pardon the Gollum / Smeagol impression, but I simply must say... a 3072k/s downstream rate is truly something to behold. I've finally ditched the phone line and gone highspeed. Now that I'm on broadband, I'm gaming every night... but something's missing. I want to try something good and online only, even an MMORPG. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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| Cheetah Ultimate Fanboy
 
  
 Joined: 25 Aug 2003
 Posts: 2831
 Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:14 am |  
| sure do, Americas Army. its free, its high grapics, its Unreal Engine, its cool..
 i recommen you try it..
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:29 pm |  
| I would recommend Planetside, if you don't mind having to pay a monthly fee of $12.  You can get a free 7-day trial at www.planetside.com It isnt really an RPG, more like a giant FPS's war, but u do choose what weapons, veichles and armour your charector can wear etc.
 
 Also NWN is gr8 to play as a MMORPG if u use persistant world mods. www.exaria.net is a good one.
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| Cheetah Ultimate Fanboy
 
  
 Joined: 25 Aug 2003
 Posts: 2831
 Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:05 pm |  
| what connection you have then?
 i got ADSL: 2048 down, and 320 up..
 you? Cable: 3072 down, and ### yp...
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| Dragon Rage UO Staff
 
  
 Joined: 10 Sep 2003
 Posts: 524
 Location: Atlanta
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:36 pm |  
| 
 
 
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	  | what connection you have then? i got ADSL: 2048 down, and 320 up..
 you? Cable: 3072 down, and ### yp...
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 256k up
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| alpha2003 The Underworld God of Spamming
 
  
 Joined: 07 Dec 2003
 Posts: 748
 Location: USA
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:51 pm |  
| yeah try americas army, its a good game, i used to have an honor of 38, pretty high back in the days...
 
 this is my speed for internet
 
 2004-02-04 16:49:57 EST: 4852 / 978
 Your download speed : 4852469 bps, or 4852 kbps.
 A 592.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
 Your upload speed : 978952 bps, or 978 kbps.
 Seems like broadband .. above the 5mbit barrier!
 
 
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 2049
 2305
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 3585
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 4097
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 5889
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 ugh   «33.6k modem download speed
 
 ugh   «typical 56k modem download speed
 
 bearable   «dual channel ISDN
 
 ok   «IDSL
 
 ok   «150k Video Stream
 
 ok   «Fastest multiplayer games
 
 ok   «192k 'near CD quality' MP3
 
 ok   «300k Video Stream
 
 bearable   «half megabit
 
 ok   «1mbit barrier
 
 fast   «2mbit barrier
 
 very fast   «3mbit barrier
 
 your
 download   «4852 kbps
 
 your
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 dude!   «5mbit barrier
 
 this speed is with norton internet security, antivirus, router, and another computer with an active internet connection to metlife secure server connected via router
 
 
 i get all of this for 45 bucks a month.
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| guest Guest
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:44 pm |  
| Next year I'm living in my university again, back to sharing a 655 MBit connection
   I once downloaded 1.5 GB in an hour on that connection!
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| barbos Ultimate Fanboy
 
 
 Joined: 18 May 2003
 Posts: 508
 
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:24 pm |  
| The fastest I've ever been was with @Home when they first came out in our area..
 
 I got upto 860kilobytes per second, and that was at the end of the file... had the file been larger than 15 megs, it would've gone up more
   
 It was rare to find a server that would dish that much out though...
 
 That would've been roughly 3 gigs in an hour.  Alas, I have Comcast now, which I rarely see over 200k/sec  :/
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| Lalli-Oni UO Staff
 
  
 Joined: 21 May 2003
 Posts: 767
 Location: A small island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean...
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:30 pm |  
| 800 and something at my school too... preety sweet. I think I saw someone with 920 something but cannot confirm it ^^
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| alpha2003 The Underworld God of Spamming
 
  
 Joined: 07 Dec 2003
 Posts: 748
 Location: USA
 
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Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:02 pm |  
| if you have cable, youd be greatly surprised about how a good computer vs a bad one sharing the same connection has an extremely faster speed. my dads laptop speed on the same site tested is twice as fast as the results i posted. heh. and yes his laptop is much faster than my pc in everything except for the vid card, his lap. has a gig of ram (for websphere)
 
 
 he gets about 870.  I just tested how fast i downloaded a 5 meg .bmp file from my host, 220 kbps...not bad
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| Cheetah Ultimate Fanboy
 
  
 Joined: 25 Aug 2003
 Posts: 2831
 Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
 
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:31 pm |  
| i hate slow uplaod speed..
 i got about 1.5 Mbit..
   dude., whats all this about:
 
 
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	  | ok «150k Video Stream 
 ok «Fastest multiplayer games
 
 ok «192k 'near CD quality' MP3
 
 ok «300k Video Stream
 
 bearable «half megabit
 
 ok «1mbit barrier
 
 fast «2mbit barrier
 
 very fast «3mbit barrier
 
 your
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 your
 upload «978 kbps
 
 dude! «5mbit barrier
 
 
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 it involses MP3 qualitys and all.
 
 http://bandwidthplace.com/ does not outputs my acualy speed, it gives a muhc slower speed, other connection meters do give my top speed.. and the speed i donwlaod on at max etc.. why does http://bandwidthplace.com/ not work coorectly?
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| alpha2003 The Underworld God of Spamming
 
  
 Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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 Location: USA
 
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:40 pm |  
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	  | dude whats this all about?
 
 
 ok «150k Video Stream
 
 ok «Fastest multiplayer games
 
 ok «192k 'near CD quality' MP3
 
 ok «300k Video Stream
 
 bearable «half megabit
 
 ok «1mbit barrier
 
 fast «2mbit barrier
 
 very fast «3mbit barrier
 
 your
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 your
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 dude! «5mbit barrier
 
 
 
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 your
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 your
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 learn to read.
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:11 pm |  
| Why have you said a dual speed ISDN is "bareable" and that a half megabit is "bareable" too??!
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| alpha2003 The Underworld God of Spamming
 
  
 Joined: 07 Dec 2003
 Posts: 748
 Location: USA
 
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:13 pm |  
| ummm i didnt say that, the chart result said it lol
 
 
 i get the same results at bandwidthplace...
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| Peoii Ultimate Fanboy
 
  
 Joined: 19 May 2003
 Posts: 572
 Location: Post Falls, ID, USA, North America, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
 
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:31 pm |  
| 3mbit / 384kbps here, on Adelphia.
 
 And as far as an online game, check out Gunbound
  I've been playing it almost non-stop during my freetime lately, and it's completely addicting. 
 http://www.gunbound.net/
 
 And if you want, you can add me to your buddies, and gee, guess the name I used
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