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I just bought a PS3 for when GT5 comes out. I wanna get it hooked up to the net for online gaming and the PS network. My question is, what kind of speed of a plan should I be looking at for a good gaming experience?
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Carlsberg dont do facepalms.................
EDIT. I apologise, I honestly thought this thread as a joke, I'm in a funny mood today. I play wireless on my PS3, and my connection is just about 4.5mb on an adsl line. I very rarely have trouble.
EDIT. I apologise, I honestly thought this thread as a joke, I'm in a funny mood today. I play wireless on my PS3, and my connection is just about 4.5mb on an adsl line. I very rarely have trouble.
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While connection speed plays a definite role, ping time is actually one of the largest factors for online gaming. Having a high ping is what will result in games hanging. Unfortunately, I don't think there is really anything you can do about your ping short of living closer to your 'net's source.
That said, my connection is a 7Mb/s down and 896Kb/s up, I haven't had any issues. I'd assume, but am not positive, that most connections faster than 2Mb/s down and 512Kb/s up should work just fine.
Out of curiosity, what is your current connection speed?
I am, and presumably thousands of others are, too. You'll need to make sure you have your security settings (assuming you have MAC address filtering and/or WEP/WPA, etc.) set up so your PS3 can get onto your router/modem. You'll also likely need to play with some settings to get your PS3 to NAT2. Once those are set up, you should be good to go.
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I would say anything over 7-8mbps will be fine, you can't do much about the ping but if you happen to live near the local telephone exchange lower speeds will perform just as well.
Also different games will react differently to various speeds, fast paced racing and shooting games would be the most affected by a sluggish connection.
By modem do you mean a 3G USB dongle? If thats the case then it probably wont work unless it either has an ethernet plug on it or it can provide a mobile WiFi hotspot for other devices to connect to.
Robin.
Also different games will react differently to various speeds, fast paced racing and shooting games would be the most affected by a sluggish connection.
By modem do you mean a 3G USB dongle? If thats the case then it probably wont work unless it either has an ethernet plug on it or it can provide a mobile WiFi hotspot for other devices to connect to.
Robin.
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You must already have internet to be typing this unless you went down to the library or something
Just get the PS3 to hook it up. you don't need good speeds for online gaming it uses little to no bandwidth. if you have a good upload speed that might get you host that is all. As long as you notgot someone downloading a load of porn on the same connection you will be fine
ROAD_DOGG33J
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If while your gaming there's nothing else going on, then just about anything would do. Ping is the major factor.
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Assuming you're going to be using the internet you have now to game. You can go to.
http://www.speedtest.net/
And more importantly
http://www.pingtest.net/
These should give you an idea of how your connection will currently perform.
http://www.speedtest.net/
And more importantly
http://www.pingtest.net/
These should give you an idea of how your connection will currently perform.
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I use my HTC Evo 4g phone for my internet because it has a hotspot built in. It prolly isn't the best to use for online gaming. My options for internet are Clearwire WiMax and AT&T. I've read alot of bad reviews for Clearwire so I'll count them out. Here is my speedtest results from using my Evo.
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ClearWire use do packet shaping, which causes a considerable number of issues with downloads and gaming. I'm not sure if they've changed this policy at this point in time.
Any standard cable ISP will be fine.
The issue with using your phone's connection is latency, and not so much thru put..
Any standard cable ISP will be fine.
The issue with using your phone's connection is latency, and not so much thru put..
Looking at those speedtest results of the EVO, Sprint is doing a fine job with latency and speed.
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AT&T has a 12mbps for $45 a month, I think I might check into that one.
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Yeah speed doesn't really make any difference. It's about latency. Especially racing games all it basically does is send your position out, not huge amounts of data. 128k is probably enough to be honest.
