I am wondering how well it does with the game, we are thinking of getting it and we are near one of them I think they are called loops or something and they extend the service so I think we should get a good speed. I just want to know how it does with this game, because our current cable provider doesn't do a good job something is wrong and makes it choppy and ping jumps really high.
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i had SBC DSL in the past and it worked fine for me. both in and out of game. in fact it pinged slightly lower in game than my cable does. so unless youre really far from the phone company... it should work fine. -
Works fine for me also. I never had good luck with cable. It did OK but the connection would always drop. Had the problem with two different cable companies.Comment
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i like sbc over charter broadband in my area. tried 3 meg service from each.
download speed is slower(even with 3mpbs package) but its more consistant, alot less ping spikes.
upload speed is faster(almost double). that really helps.Comment
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yea i have SBC dsl and its great i ping on average from 15-25 but never above 35 for east or west coast servers. Over all the service for me has been rock solid for the past two years and im happy with it.Comment
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Ok, that is a good thing because I mean my dial up worked better than this cable has been doing for me. I am not near there HQ but they just installed a extender and I hope that it will keep up it's speed to somewhere over a megabit.
But this don't mean I have my answer the more I know about this DSL the better off I am so that way I can get it running well.
Does it have any effect on routers though? Does it have any problems with the setup through the router.Comment
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If you're coming from dialup you'll be amazed at online play now. I used it for a year or so before moving to a neighboring town and I went with cable instead.
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You mean AT&T.
Yeah, it's good for online play.Comment
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I use Pacific Telephone/Pacific Bell/PacBell/SBC/Yahoo/AT&T DSL for all my online needs, including UT2004 gameplay. Since 1998 I have lived in six different locations, and have had five installs of DSL from them (one year of Comcrap's crappy cable forced me to go back to DSL), from the simple 1-IP address, 6-IP address, and "enhanced" DHCP DSL I currently am enjoying. I've never had any problems, but I had tooooooo many problems back when I had Comcrap's cable. Back in the Unreal Tournament days (1999 - 2001 or so, when I was playing 12 hours per week online in CTF) I was connecting to UT servers with pings as low as 20ms, and gameplay was smooth as **** on a sterling silver platter.Comment
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So it's a DHCP? I think that means it can auto-obtain things, if that is true that is a good thing as well, because I am not only wanting UT2004 to work, but my game systems like Nintendo DS and Ps2, and all that to work well with there service. Because I don't want to have to go through the trouble with all the subnet, and gateways stuff on them setups, but we have a router so I think my dad says that the router can assign all the stuff and the modem don't have to.Comment
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Yep, DHCP. Pretty much foolproof to set up.Comment
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If there is anymore people that uses this brand of service, I would like some more reviews of it. This will be my last request, Thank You!Comment
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I've had SBC DSL for three years now (home package 1m/512k). It's never been down and has always offered stable pings. Currently I'm thinking of upgrading to their 3mb business class SDSL.Comment
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I'm thinking of doing the same, and hopefully if there's new hardware involved there will be a self-install kit available.Originally posted by LLEVIATHANNComment
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I know plenty of people that use SBC DSL, it works fine. Hell i used to play with my friends on dial up. As long as you keep the # of people down its fine.Comment
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