BF3 and Bandwith.

[Devilguns]

Does anyone know how much bandwidth BF3 uses? When I originally installed the game it defaulted my graphic settings to High. The game looked great but was hitching and rubberbanding. I was getting freezes. I knocked the settings down to medium, it helped a little, but I was still getting freezes and some hitching.

I had a basic cable connection, 1up, 10 down. My cable company was offering a discount on their better service so I opted for it.



Now it runs silky smooth, I was even able to up the graphics back to high. Is this a coincidence? Or is BF3 using more bandwidth?

[Schultzy]

You just came here to brag about your speed, didn't you?

[Devilguns]

You just came here to brag about your speed, didn't you?

Lol, no. I think it has something to do with the up load speed.

[Nilesjones]

If it has something to do with the upload speed let me know because I want a ping like yours man haha

At the moment I'm running 2.66 down and .34 upload speed according to speed.net

Also my ping for Cain's lair is 66

If I could get down to 12ms I would be extremely happy haha

But yeah, definitely let me know if you come across any information on that.

[Donziboy2]

Sounds more like hardware or drivers.....

[K PhaNTOM]

You have no idea how tiny the amount of packets needed to play online. I know for a fact that Call of Duty 4's max packet withdraw was about 100Kbs. That's nothing. Even if you multiply that by 3 it's still nothing. Though I doubt it needs more than 150Kbs to run. I used to download at 170KBs and upload at 30KBs and still ran the beta pretty damn well.

Also, Shultzy

[juneau]

Maybe you were moved to a newer section of your ISPs network when you were upgraded that is less oversubscribed?

That can/does happen a lot with my ISP.

[{CLR} Cobalt]

I hate you people.

[Schultzy]

lol, my net is 30/30.. For what I pay for it, I've got it at a steal.

As for lagging... It was most likely just a massive packet loss issue you had.

[Devilguns]

Turns out the problem I was having is related to a CDMA appliance I have installed in my home network for our cell phones. It caused big time packet loss.