Internet speed for pvp

ajsnuker

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2009

Dunkoro Is Our [MVP]

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Is this and adequate enough speed for high end pvp in guild wars 1 and the soon to come guild wars 2?

Shadow Sin

Shadow Sin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

Philippines

[Glad]

Mo/

tbh you can run on 400 ping on high end GW 1 PvP and still be ranked among the top 100

Motoko

Motoko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Dallas, Texas

Zero Quality [zQ] /[LaG]/[USA]/[iQ]

A/E

Shadow is correct.

It often depends on what you plan on playing.

As far as interuption goes, that may be your ping... But that ping will vary depending on what servers you play on (Euro/American).

I have absolutely no problem getting 3/4s most of the time with a mesmer on American servers.

On euro servers its a bit harder for me being an American player.

I would test GW servers over your plain internet connection.

Archress Shayleigh

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1049606225.png

How come I have a higher ping then?

Yue

Yue

The Cheese Stands Alone

Join Date: Dec 2005

A Chair

Delta Formation [DF]

R/

Your available bandwidth is different from your ping. Bandwidth=width of a highway, ping tells you if that highway's made from stone or mud.

However, test your ping on GW servers, not speedtest.

Anything less than 150ms will let you play interrupt classes, anything less than 350 will let you play everything else fine.

Archress Shayleigh

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

By "test your ping on GW servers" you mean to simply go into the game and look at the ping, or is there another website for that?

lodgeinator

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

Quote:
By "test your ping on GW servers" you mean to simply go into the game and look at the ping, or is there another website for that?
Yep just go ingame and have a look, it will be the most accurate way.

Fusylum

Fusylum

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Michigan

Reign of Judgement [RoJ]




School Connection...
Don't Cry

Archress Shayleigh

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

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school connection...
Don't cry
wtfffffffffffffffff

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

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Yes, yes - very nice, but we're not going to have another thread full of "my internets > your internets", thank you

Besides, can you play GW on it?

dansamy

Chasing Dragons

Join Date: May 2005

Lost in La-La Land

LFGuild

Mo/Me

It's also hard to infuse on lousy ping.

Fusylum

Fusylum

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Michigan

Reign of Judgement [RoJ]

I can play the game on this...



Don't make fun of me!

I Echo Dshot

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2010

Bay Area

WTB q7 insc ar15 sheilds

R/Me

Speedtest.net doesn't give an accurate assessment of your GUILD WARS PING. (unless your on dial up, satalite, wifi, phone modem)

Your Guild Wars ping is not based on your internet connection, but your distance from Dallas, Texas. All the American servers are based there.

As for your ping and high level PvP, If your ping isn't sub 150, don't play ranger or a non-esurge mesmer in top GvG. It really depends on your reaction speed too, generally as a ranger you should be able to reflex 1 sec cast from a fair distance almost 100% of the time, on a mesmer you should be able to pleak 3/4 second cast with decent consistency. For a warrior, you should be able to Qstep (around 300ish ping?). For a monk you should have decent ping (around 300). If your ping is above 500 (aka you're in Australia), PvPing anything but mindless midline might be difficult.

Artisan Archer

Artisan Archer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Free Wind

R/

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Originally Posted by Fusylum View Post



School Connection...
Don't Cry



Home connection. Glasfiber.


Still, I never get a 3ms ping in guild wars specially in matches it's around 50-150ms

yitjuan

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

GMT +8

redt

Rt/

what does bandwidth have to do with ping? Do you even know what is what and what is not what?

Here's an example.

Flight from New York to Los Angeles. Will the travel time magically halve if they double the number of flights????

placetoguru

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2011

[GooN]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by I Echo Dshot View Post
.........If your ping is above 500 (aka you're in Australia), PvPing anything but mindless midline might be difficult.
LOL u really think that echo???? i'm sure me and a few other aussies have proven u wrong on many occasions. although i will accept the fact that playin mes is just impossible. but still, to everyone else as long as your ping is below 600 your golden for all but prot, ranger and mez. and for all u americans who qq when your ping hits 200. why dont u come down under were the real pros are and watch us rape in GVG with 500+pings. also q-stepping and relic running is totally fine with a 600 or less ping.

nacho3232

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2009

Quote:
Originally Posted by Artisan Archer View Post



Home connection. Glasfiber.


Still, I never get a 3ms ping in guild wars specially in matches it's around 50-150ms
you should be our new server for USA, I get horrible ping out of the severs out of Texas

Nalia

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

USA

Psychic Distraction [PD]

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My internet speed is
Download speed is 1.90 kbps
Upload speed is 0.80 kbps...
I check the speed here http://www.ip-details.com/
1.9kb/s ?

m8 you know an old school dialup modem is 56k at least, isdn is 128k, i think youre either typing it wrong or you really need to fix something... 14.4k modems came out in like late 80's iirc, if that download is accurate youre behind on technology by about 25 years

aelesia

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

Games usually don't require much bandwith actually. 1mb/s (DL) + 0.1mb/s (UL) is usually enough bandwith for most games. The real problem is latency.

I don't know why but my ping to Guild Wars servers is utter crap. My ping to most California based game servers (not ArenaNet) is usually about 200 - 250ms. On the other hand my ping to Guild War servers is usually about 350 - 500ms. On days where there are lots of people online such as Wintersday, my ping will average about 1000 - 2000ms.

I really hope ArenaNet will address these issues for GW2.