After I put the router back to automatic and both ps3’s back to automatic, Both wired and said nat type 2. Lag was minimal and neither of us are put as the host anymore. I have xfinity internet if that matters.
Clarify minimal if you would. Is it atleast playable or is the (if applicable) lag enough to not bother? Also what game did you try this with?
Minimal = maybe once or twice a match I will notice a kill cam that is a little off from what I “think” I saw. Like my gun shooting 6 rounds instead of the 10 or so I thought I put out there. As the host I would run past people around corners, their kill cam would show 0 shots fired on my end etc. It went from utter frustration to completely playable.
That’s a giant improvement. Hopefully such method works for Battlefield 3, game is too dope to play alone.
TLDR everyone elses posts, but here’s my experience:
I live in LA. I used Time Warner. Used to be at 10/2mbs. Games were laggy, unplayable. Yellow bars all over the place.
Fast forward to now …
I’m at 30/5mb from a $15-20 extra. Runs stupid smooth for games. Will lag occasionally when you hit someone with yellow bars, green is still best obviously. But the point is, I can FIND green bars, and yellow bars can essentially piggy back from your connection making the match less laggy. Or at least… That’s what my experience has been thus far.
Bottom line: do it.
Is your 30/5mbps connection still Time Warner? Was the change from laggy to no lag immediately after the upgrade/change of ISP? I don’t doubt you’ve seen a massive change, but the reason why is cloudy and more info might shed some light. Going out and dropping $15-$20 extra a month may do nothing at all for some people, if the ISP has routing issues.
Yep, still TW.
I’m also running off of the new lines they put in in my area. Which basically means DOSCIS3 (if I recall correctly). In order for you to run off of this new type of speed, you need to get a special modem which they let you rent for a small $2 fee or something like that. When they guy ran my speed test, it wasn’t all kosher though.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE GETTING WHAT YOU ARE PROMISED
I was only getting 30/2.4-5 up. There was obviously something wrong, either with the cabling in my area or the modem they gave me. So I called up, had someone come out again, and they gave me a brand new modem and then all of a sudden it was working perfectly.
Betting near anything this did more for your connection than the increased upload speed. I wish some new net infrastructure would hit my area, right now I am stuck with a Verizon WiFi hotspot. :-\
Ive been playing for a few days on my new connection and Ive haven’t had any problems with it so far. Im playing on a wireless N connection so if I decided to go wired maybe my experience would be alittle better. but as I learned it also takes the opposing person im going up against to have a semi decent connection. but imagine if it only went off one connection lol
For anyone with comcast they havent announced this yet that I know of but they are about to double everyones speeds for free
Believe it when I see it.
Same here just passing along what I was told by 2 different comcast employees
just got an email from comcast
http://info.xfinity.com/Comcast/Portal/content/Comcast/Images/2012/07July/13897_SpdIncr/header.jpg
Great news! Now you can do more online in half the time.
That’s because we’ve automatically upgraded your XFINITY® Internet speed — and it won’t cost you a penny more. " all I need to do is power cycle my modem apparently…
we shall see…
speeds didnt double but speed test results before cable modem reboot 22 down 6 up and after 29 down 7 up
this is averaged from a few speed tests and a speed test pages before and after.
Then I’m really skeptical of what that asterisk means, haha.
Does the increase help with online gaming or is it too hard to really tell?
Remember, speed tests are only going to be as fast as the slowest server in between you and the test location. Comcast can say “your internet is twice as fast!” all they want, but in reality it’s only faster within their range of influence (i.e., routing equipment, servers, etc). You should still be happy with the increase, less latency is always welcome.