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Just for the halibut

Jun 14, 2012 2:19AM PDT

I thought i'd put this out there. I have Comcast broadband at home. I have my laptop wired right into the modem unless I move to a different room in the house than I switch to wireless. Opening my network and sharing center (windows vista 64 bit) my connection speed (wired) is 100.0 Mbps, wireless is 72.0 Mbps, doing a speed test online I get a ping of 16ms , Download speed is 22.46 Mbps and upload is 4.52 Mbps. Now this seems real fast to me . My neighbor says that this is slow and I can't imagine me needing anything faster. Is He Crazy?

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Doesn't matter.
Jun 14, 2012 3:01AM PDT

Gamers tend to want more. Doesn't mean they are that.

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If its what you want its fine
Jun 19, 2012 12:59AM PDT

Some people in life get caught up in having/being/owning the best and never use it, good for them. Like my neighbor who has a vette he braggs about can do 200 Mph but he never drives it over 35 cus he lives, works, and drives in town. Another neighbor has monster truck, he never goes off road with... Such a Waste. Civic does the same thing, gets tons better gas mileage, and is more reliable..I have more important things to spend my money on than 105Mb internet that has a 250Gb cap anyway and I never can download things online more than 1.5Mb unless I pay for special server access. If your neighbor needs that speed he does 1 of 2 things, works from home using large amounts of data, or is into online piracy.

No game in existence has needed more than 1.5Mb to run, NO GAME has even needed that much data to run. Games are about latency, not bandwidth. They have and always will target the low end systems because money is money. Patches is the only time more bandwidth may provide useful and even them its generally millions of people downloading it at the same time so the hosting server is the limiting factor.

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Just a comment . . .
Jun 19, 2012 3:55AM PDT

Connect speed is measured in bits per second. Download speed is measured in Bytes per second. There are 8 bits in a Byte. Take note of each and grab a calculator. Your speed looks good on this end.