T4molie

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

mike1210

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

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

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.

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

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

T4molie

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

mike1210

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

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

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 )

messiah

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.

T4molie

Cheers for the replies fellas

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

StickyMicky

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

T4molie

Sticky I remember your thread

Did you get to the bottom of the problem?

StickyMicky

yes i had a stuck IP profile, apparently

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

T4molie

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