Mad.Man Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I did used to have a zoom dail up connection and now have broadband I wondered if anyone could look here and tell me how exactly fast is dail up heres the address www.zoom.co.uk I was thinking of getting it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 dial is slow and outdated! 56kbps (~12KBps max download)! Where as broadband is much faster. From looking at zoom you can get up to 8Mbps, which almost 100times faster than dialup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad.Man Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 Can you use dail up for things like online games because it is a lot cheaper for me as im only 18 and not earning very much money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 online gaming is addictive. the cost of dial-up to an online gaming addict will be huge. it will possibly work, but some gaming communities/servers frown upon slow connections with huge pings, not to mention there's a higher chance of you getting whooped.you're better either sticking with a broadband connection, or just downgrading but sticking to normal gaming until you can go back to BB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad.Man Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 Well im talking about ps2 online gaming yes it is very addictive and some games also have a fee for playing so every one tells me I should stick with broadband and not get dial up. It is proberly for the best if I want to play online to stick to broadband because for dail up it will proberly cost a lot of cash and broadband it will be a lot cheaper and faster. Has anyone here played the ps2 online and know how fast it is and the cost of playing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 In order to do online gaming be it on ps2, xbox, PC or what ever platform you will need to have lots of bandwidth, which broadband has. dial-up has extremely low bandwidth.The higher the bandwidth then you will get low pings to the server, the lower the ping the better game play you get.You are best of sticking with broadband if you wish to play online games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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