XBox Live Latency Issues


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Ah, then your connection is extremely good but the latency is somewhat decent, then i'd say its both the host and your ISP =P

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Correct me if i'm wrong but DSL may have a slow download and upload speed but the lantency is very good but cable on the other hand, the download and upload speed is extremely good but latency is high since all the packets and stuff, so other players reccommend DSL for gamers and cable for home/small business use.

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Why does cable have high latency?

Cable has high latency because of many people using the same cable ISP. Everyone is using it because people some thinks that "Oh, I have a high download and upload speed so my ping would low" and thats completely wrong, download and upload speed is very different from ping/latency

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Could someone who normally gets "greens" or even "yellows" on games please post their speedtest results from either speedtest.net or dslreports.com? I think that will help me. I'm more interested in latency (ping) then upstream/downstream bandwidth. Bandwidth has very little to do with online gaming..it is all about latency along as you have enough bandwidth for the packet sizes.

I'm starting to survey people in my area to see what they get on their connections at home. I'm starting to think low latency just isn't a reality in my area or the world :(. Probably a bottleneck going to the rest of the internet somewhere.

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sharock, there's no real reason to switch to Comcast for you. try a direct connection, modem to 360 and see what gives.

other than that, i think we're all on the same boat: my connection slows down sometimes as well. the infrastructure just isn't that sound yet.

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Could someone who normally gets "greens" or even "yellows" on games please post their speedtest results from either speedtest.net or dslreports.com? I think that will help me. I'm more interested in latency (ping) then upstream/downstream bandwidth. Bandwidth has very little to do with online gaming..it is all about latency along as you have enough bandwidth for the packet sizes.

I'm starting to survey people in my area to see what they get on their connections at home. I'm starting to think low latency just isn't a reality in my area or the world :(. Probably a bottleneck going to the rest of the internet somewhere.

I got 30 ping from my DSL

Advertising Speed: 180KB/s Down and 60KB/s Up

Real Speed: 160KB/s Down and 40KB/s Up

( I once got 1-5 O.o )

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Could someone who normally gets "greens" or even "yellows" on games please post their speedtest results from either speedtest.net or dslreports.com? I think that will help me. I'm more interested in latency (ping) then upstream/downstream bandwidth. Bandwidth has very little to do with online gaming..it is all about latency along as you have enough bandwidth for the packet sizes.

I usually get Greens in every game, and I very rarely, if ever, get Yellows.

Here is my speed test:

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I usually get Greens in every game, and I very rarely, if ever, get Yellows.

Here is my speed test:

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Try pinging California and some north east servers. I can ping my local university all day long and get decent results (not 12ms..but still pretty good).

Thanks!

sharock, there's no real reason to switch to Comcast for you. try a direct connection, modem to 360 and see what gives.

other than that, i think we're all on the same boat: my connection slows down sometimes as well. the infrastructure just isn't that sound yet.

I have tried that and got the same results :(

I, on average, get 150-230ms across the US. I had a guy at work who has cable modem through comcast (5mbps) test his connection and he consistently get <100ms throughout the US. So, it is better as far as latency goes. Not sure if it will be noticeably better in XBox Live, but I think it is worth a try next month.

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Try pinging California and some north east servers. I can ping my local university all day long and get decent results (not 12ms..but still pretty good).

Thanks!

I have tried that and got the same results :(

I get about the same to whatever US server I ping. It helps to be connected to the 2nd fastest Internet connection in the world. :p

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For routers nothing beats the Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT firmware, it's the most tuned and optimized firmware there is. As for ISP's, I've found DSL generally crap for gaming, I prefer gaming over Cable as it seems to have better latency than DSL, probably due to the limitations of DSL and distance unlike Cable.

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i havent been able to finish one madden live game, and im on 10mb cable.

Thats mostly because EA makes a habit of having their games not run on Xbox live servers :( They make their games use their own.

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For routers nothing beats the Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT firmware, it's the most tuned and optimized firmware there is. As for ISP's, I've found DSL generally crap for gaming, I prefer gaming over Cable as it seems to have better latency than DSL, probably due to the limitations of DSL and distance unlike Cable.

I've actually heard quite the opposite. But I think in the end it could go either way depending on your location. There are so many factors in latency.

I don't think the situation, in some regions, will get any better. People and businesses are only really concerned with bandwidth, not latency. How many people can tell the difference between 10ms and 300ms delay when browsing web pages? About the only internet application that is super dependent on latency is on-line gaming.

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How much lag could my network router be adding realistically? I have a Linksys router G+A wireless, can't think of the model # off the top of my head. But I mean, the difference between optimized and non-optimized, in my mind, is about a 1ms or 2ms at most.

Unless you have some horrible network problems with really shotty equipment, and didn't wire your CAT5 correctly, your bottleneck IS your Internet connection <<period>>.

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