Guys,

As above. What would you say was required for my Bro who wants to get Broadband for email / surfing / playing xbox360 online?

Have been looking at Tiscali.

Cheers

Andy

 

Broadband isp UK: Uncapped £9.95 8Mb Award winning Wireless ADSL from NewNet plc fast access Internet

those may be a better bet

best to use a router as well, wired is best for games

Broadbandbuyer.co.uk | NETGEAR DG834G v3 Wireless-G ADSL2+ Router

installed loads of these for people and have had no probs at all with them

 

Apparently Xbox Live gaming uses on average 30Mb per hour, so very little really. Marketplace downloads are small too, its demos and videos that could eat into a small download allowance very fast.

 

used Live on a 1mb line and all was well.

 

STI - did you have any download limits on that speed tho?

 

for just playing games a 512k connection would be ample, downloading would of course be quicker in theory on a faster connection

 

nope. I rinse my downloads but that was the max speed i could get until recently. (See sky broadband thread for farce I'm currently experiencing )

 

I was on 512k too and recently upped to 3mb and it makes no difference to gameplay.

Only limitations are when the game uses 1 player as a host, the upload speed limits how many players you can have in the room - too many people in and some will be booted out - the 2 GRAW titles & Rainbow 6 Vegas seem to be the worst.

 

Cheers for the replies fellas

I'll probably just tell him to go for something like upto 8Mb speed with perhaps a 5Gb limit

 

i was getting 22.5kbs download speeds a few weeks back from BT

and i could manage a online 2 players turtles arcade game, just

4 players was out of the question

 

Sticky I remember your thread

Did you get to the bottom of the problem?

 

yes i had a stuck IP profile, apparently

i rang tech support and the bloke sorted it out within 10 mins or so

 

Amazing what happens when you get to speak to the right person