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Originally Posted by gTen
You are not 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
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Never said ping was a magical number, but okay. lol
I agree with you 100% on what you just said.
But who is going to be downloading a bunch of 1kb files? Not me.
But if I had a choice I'd choose both, the 10 Mb for my 360 and the 500 Mb for my network.