is 10Mbs fast enough for home gaming?
Me
I've just bought a cheap secondhand (£10) 10Mbs hub. how much slower will
this be than the direct cross over link that I currently have?
At the moment I can play castlewolf, and unreal, and medal of honor 2 people
super smooth. When I put the hub on and try to play 3 people will things
craw? Should I scrap the idea of 10mbs and get 100mb hub?
cheers
Luke Wakeling
> I've just bought a cheap secondhand (£10) 10Mbs hub. how much slower will
> this be than the direct cross over link that I currently have?
> At the moment I can play castlewolf, and unreal, and medal of honor 2
people
> super smooth. When I put the hub on and try to play 3 people will things
> craw? Should I scrap the idea of 10mbs and get 100mb hub?
For a 3-person game you should have a problem. I've played upto 8 player
games on a 10Mbps LAN before. The time you will notice the speed is if you
are downloading maps from the server - this can take ages.
Luke
Ian Clark
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> I have 2 pcs currently connected with 10/100 nics via a crossover cable.
> this be than the direct cross over link that I currently have?
>
> At the moment I can play castlewolf, and unreal, and medal of honor 2
people
> super smooth. When I put the hub on and try to play 3 people will things
> craw? Should I scrap the idea of 10mbs and get 100mb hub?
>
10Mb is Fine.
If you think that for broadband Internet for example Cable Modem broadband,
you are only required to have a 10Mb Ethernet card. 100mb is not necessary.
And also that Online gaming is not a problem through a 512Mb CM and 10Mb
NIC-Damn good fun infact :o)
As has already been mentioned, where you would notice a major increase is in
File transfer. - And that is only viable if using an NT or *Nix based OS.
Win9x and ME are just pants for File transfer :o)
Me
Funny but the other day I had pings of 1-5 with unreal betwen my xp machine
and a buddies xp latptop via crossover cable and when I do the same between
my xp and win 98 machines I get 60-70 ping. is that expected.
also, how do I check to see what speed 10 or 100 my cards are connected at?
cheers for all the info guys...
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Luke Wakeling
> cool, so 10mbs should be find for gaming huh?
> Funny but the other day I had pings of 1-5 with unreal betwen my xp
machine
> and a buddies xp latptop via crossover cable and when I do the same
between
> my xp and win 98 machines I get 60-70 ping. is that expected.
To ping my W9x box from a linux box I get a maximum of about 750us
(microsecs) which is so fast the windows can't measure it (reports >10ms).
So I wouldn't trust windows to report it correctly. Also if you're playing
across the internet then you'll be lucky to get anything less than 100ms so
I wouldn't worry about it.
> also, how do I check to see what speed 10 or 100 my cards are connected
at?
Look at the lights on the cards. Or I think XP shows the speed in the
network properties.
> "Ian Clark" <sparh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
> > File transfer. - And that is only viable if using an NT or *Nix based
OS.
but don't games which autodownload use their own transfer protocol?
> > Win9x and ME are just pants for File transfer :o)
it's quicker to FTP!
Luke
Conor Turton
minimal info (Counterstrike is 7k/sec tops) and you can run a 16 player
DFLW server from an ADSL connection which is 1/40th of your hub speed
then you are OK for a good few dozen players.
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uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk "Me" <n...@nohotmail.com>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I have 2 pcs currently connected with 10/100 nics via a crossover cable.
>I've just bought a cheap secondhand (Ł10) 10Mbs hub. how much slower will
>this be than the direct cross over link that I currently have?
>
>At the moment I can play castlewolf, and unreal, and medal of honor 2 people
>super smooth. When I put the hub on and try to play 3 people will things
>craw? Should I scrap the idea of 10mbs and get 100mb hub?
10 is easily fast enough, but the price of an 8-port 10/100 switch is
only about Ł40 now.
deKay
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Me
put everythig to the test in the next week or so when I get the hub.
cheers,
jason
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