15-03-13, 12:08 AM
Haha
I remember when the updates would be released at like 1am and we'd manage to get a good connection and stay up til somethkng like 4 o clock waiting on the 85meg download finishing.
My mate had a connection with ntl who gave you 56k free with the fone line but only for the first 2 hours so the timer wad always on to get ready to cut it in time.
To teat the download speed and ping of the connection, we'd start downoading a tune on napster. If it was any less than 3.5-4 kbps, we'd disconnect and dial up again to get a better speed. In game we would be happy with a ping of around 200. Any more tjan that it would start lagging out. Totally hilarious. Thankfully broadband started doin the rounds a wee while after that. Pimgs of 20 40 and 60 were always decent. We actually felt the difference hitting american servers where it would rise up to 80. EIGHTY!!!!!!!!!
The cheek
I remember when the updates would be released at like 1am and we'd manage to get a good connection and stay up til somethkng like 4 o clock waiting on the 85meg download finishing.
My mate had a connection with ntl who gave you 56k free with the fone line but only for the first 2 hours so the timer wad always on to get ready to cut it in time.
To teat the download speed and ping of the connection, we'd start downoading a tune on napster. If it was any less than 3.5-4 kbps, we'd disconnect and dial up again to get a better speed. In game we would be happy with a ping of around 200. Any more tjan that it would start lagging out. Totally hilarious. Thankfully broadband started doin the rounds a wee while after that. Pimgs of 20 40 and 60 were always decent. We actually felt the difference hitting american servers where it would rise up to 80. EIGHTY!!!!!!!!!
The cheek
Smell ones mother. Yaas!