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Originally Posted by Mswezey
Latency makes a huge difference in online gaming, skype, other applications that require that "no lag" experience. Loading webpages doesn't require a 10 ms latency to be the best. Hughesnet for instance?? Avg. around 700-1300ms latency
Yeah I had them for little less than a year and I could download insanely fast with a download manager that makes multiple connections or "threads". Crap, even on college campus they have us capped at 1.5 Mb but with this downloading software i can manage 5 Mb easy.
Now I'm not saying Hughesnet was the most pleasurable experience, but for the time I did have it, it was way better than dail up.
And throwing numbers around isn't gonna help your argument.
I'm sure everyone here would take a 500 Mb/s with 100 ms ping time over
10 Mb/s with a 20 ms ping time in less they are a huge gamer and don't do too much downloading.
And those NICs your talking about is for gaming enthusiasts, that's what they do is improve your ping time, they don't boost you're download speed and trust me, if they did, everyone would have them and ISP companies would be going insane with how overloaded their servers are.
But go head and quote this, do your math magic with your numbers that anyone can pull out of the sky. It's okay, I remember when I first learned to divide and multiply too, sort of exciting isn't it??
Now everyone wants the best connection possible, but you're not going to get it with choose the "right" CPU. Choose the right Internet provider and if you want that "insane" ping time, yeah go get one of those gaming NICs. Otherwise save your money, a you're regular NIC on your motherboard will do just fine.
This debate started over CPUs being related to internet speed. Which they are not. If you want faster page loads go get FireFox and install the addon FasterFox. lol
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You are misunderstanding...ping is not a magical number that comes out of nowhere. Let me give an example, lets say I need 1 gallon of water color water with 5 colors. What would deliver faster a huge pipe traveling a long distance or a smaller pipe traveling shorter distance?
When you loading a webpage with 1000ms you will first load the page then all the images will be multi-threaded.
So as far as if your downloading a 5gb file you win out with faster connection even if its more latency. If you are downloading small files, smaller latency will win out.
what do you think will win downloading a 1kb file a 500mb/sec connection with 1000ms or a 10mb/sec connection with 50ms?
The 10mb/sec connection will have the file even before the 500mb/sec starts to download it.
Gaming gets benefit from lower latency due to the fact that it involves large sending of small packets.
Edit: and for the record Dialup is not only slow but has terrible latency as well