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[mkjones]

I have a Blueyonder Telewest Broadband cable connection in the UK, its a 521k download speed but the upload is a shocking 14k I belive.

Just wonderd if anyone out there is on this connection and how well it works with Xlink?

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[dfunked]

I think you're a little confused... Sounds like you're on a 512/128 connection.

This means,

512 kbps (kilobits per second), which is roughly 51.2 KB/s (kilobytes per second).

You upload speed of 128 kbps results in roughly 12.8 KB/s.

It's not "shocking" as such, but it is quite low. You will have problems with high bandwidth requiring games (Halo, Brute Force) etc, when you have a certain number of people / XBoxes connected.

Run something like Tony Hawks 4, and you'll have no trouble at all. Just try to get people as close to you as possible...  <

[taz1975uk]

QUOTE (mkjones @ Jan 14 2004, 11:14 AM)

I have a Blueyonder Telewest Broadband cable connection in the UK, its a 521k download speed but the upload is a shocking 14k I belive. Just wonderd if anyone out there is on this connection and how well it works with Xlink? Cheers

you have 512kbit up and 128kbit down. (blueyonder dont advertive the up speed for this service and when i asked the question to there help desk they did not understand)

I have the same connection speed as you and use the same ISP.

I dont have any problems at all, and have played against people all over the world.

I used to have AOL broardband and i was not very happy with the service.

As TD it depends on the game, but i have played top-spin agaist people in Canada with no lag what so ever.

I am planning on upgrading to 1meg connection that will give me 256kbit up

[valius]

I have the 2meg pack from Blueyonder
2meg down
256kbit up

I have been playing online LAN games max of 4 xbox's on my LAN so far, going to get a few friends round to take it up to 7

Do you think my connection can handle it?

Valius   <

[mkjones]

yeh I have the 1/2mb service and they dont advertize the uprate, all I know is I never get anymore than 14k when I open an FTP or send a file..

Sounds like it should work great, shame about Halo, thats what I wanted to play!

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[mkjones]

 just to confirm

[taz1975uk]

QUOTE (mkjones @ Jan 14 2004, 01:55 PM)

yeh I have the 1/2mb service and they dont advertize the uprate, all I know is I never get anymore than 14k when I open an FTP or send a file.. Sounds like it should work great, shame about Halo, thats what I wanted to play!

yep 14k is what i get for upload as well.
you are on the same service as me and i have confirmed that I have a 128kbit up-speed.

Halo should work ok, just if you are playing someone and you have a slow ping then expect some lag, if you play someone in Europe you can expect to see a ping of ~30ms - ~90ms  if you get this kind of ping you should have a lag free game.

also make sure you close down any file sharing programs, like kazaa.

other messenger programs like msn messenger should be ok to keep running.

plus getting a program like ad aware to check for spy an ad-ware as this can effect your bandwith.  <