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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die

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Realyn

Member
And where did you get this gem of wisdom?

Don't know, by using my brain or actually having a buisness s-dsl connection with real fastpath. But I guess you aren't looking for a technical answer with your "gem of wisdom"

Ping is not up/down speed dependent...
No it is not. But having a 120mb connection results in more lost packages and so on.
 

Yager

Banned
Is it ok to play now ? Don't want my console get banned ....

If it's a legitimate copy, you won't get banned. Don't worry, I've been playing it since friday , and besides the "random bans error" (which they fixed pretty soon), it's OK to play it before the release date.
 
FUCKKKKK just realised something, i ordered my halo 4 before i became an amazon prime member, and so selected first class delivery. any idea if that has now been changed to next day or will it still be the delivery type i selected when i ordered it?
 
And where did you get this gem of wisdom?

It's true. A lot of people don't understand how this stuff works. It's all about your ping, not your bandwidth. Playing any game online does not require a ton of bandwidth. It requires a low ping and minimal bandwidth.

So playing on a 2mb connection with a 30ms ping is better than playing on a 50mb connection with a 60ms ping.
 

MrBig

Member
Took the xbl trial, thanks elzar

Don't know, by using my brain or actually having a buisness s-dsl connection with real fastpath. But I guess you aren't looking for a technical answer with your "gem of wisdom"


No it is not. But having a 120mb connection results in more lost packages and so on.

That is a problem with your provider and isn't really relevant.
 

DMeisterJ

Banned
FUCKKKKK just realised something, i ordered my halo 4 before i became an amazon prime member, and so selected first class delivery. any idea if that has now been changed to next day or will it still be the delivery type i selected when i ordered it?

Check your delivery estimate.

And I'm pretty sure you can still change your delivery type and still get it tomorrow since Amazon just uses next-day shipping on Monday for release date delivery.
 
Check your delivery estimate.

And I'm pretty sure you can still change your delivery type and still get it tomorrow since Amazon just uses next-day shipping on Monday for release date delivery.

it's estimated for tomorrow, so i might still be lucky! here's hoping :) brighton post is pretty awful in my opinion, so i'll probably be wednesday though, boo!

thanks for the info. though!
 

Raide

Member
Was tempted to get the Amazon version and Prime it but they have no price and its just an Update link to e-mail when its available. Bleh.
 

MrBig

Member
Microsoft emailed me saying the copy I ordered from them shipped today. Thought that was kind of weird. Hoping it gets here sooner than I expected.

UPS Ground. :/

Oh gosh this has me worried, but

UPS Next Day Air Saver®

Hopefully I'll have it in my hands tomorrow :)
after I wait in agony for my UPS driver to get to my part of his route at 6pm

Allright, if you say so. So a 1mb connection allways has the same/less packet loss than a 100mb one. Good to know.

ehhh, it's not going to matter anyway. He's not playing anything on a .01mbs connection.
 

Yager

Banned
Here are a couple of codes, one for the 14 days XBL Gold trial and the other for the Female Avatar Armor. I'm posting the Live one for people that don't have gold, so please be nice.

Live:
Code:
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Fem. Avatar Armor:
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F!ReW!Re

Member
Don't know, by using my brain or actually having a buisness s-dsl connection with real fastpath. But I guess you aren't looking for a technical answer with your "gem of wisdom"

No it is not. But having a 120mb connection results in more lost packages and so on.

Please don't try to insult me with a reaction that makes zero sense.


It's true. A lot of people don't understand how this stuff works. It's all about your ping, not your bandwidth. Playing any game online does not require a ton of bandwidth. It requires a low ping and minimal bandwidth.

So playing on a 2mb connection with a 30ms ping is better than playing on a 50mb connection with a 60ms ping.

DingDingDing, we have a winner.

It has nothing to do with bandwidth, it's all about the response time or ping. Trying to connect to a US server from a European host doesn't change if you have 120 Mbit connection or a 2Mbit connection (Taking in consideration that we're talking about the same type of connection, you will get different response times if you have an VDSL connection or SDSL connection or a fiberoptic connection (but this is al dependent on how your ISP handles the traffic/how the ISP network is setup/configured)) . It's all about the time it takes to send a packet from the host and getting a response from the server. This has nothing to do with bandwidth.

And before we get people in here starting to talk about how the TYPE of connection can affect your ping/response time. I'll say yes, the actual connection type does have an affect on latency.
 

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Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew
Just got back from the Midnight launch. My body is full of free Pizza, Doritos and V energy drink. Now for an hour of AWESOME before bed then work :(
 
So glad I went with Amazon. I have an exam today and an important lecture tomorrow, so good thing I'll be able to get everything out of the way before the game is here.

So if I didn't like Halo 3 at all, will I enjoy Halo 4?

Probably not. The game may have lots of new additions but it's being described as classic Halo. If you derived no pleasure from Halo 3, then you probably don't like classic Halo.
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Just got back from the Midnight launch. My body is full of free Pizza, Doritos and V energy drink. Now for an hour of AWESOME before bed then work :(

Aussie or kiwi?

New Waypoint console is up. Some features are rolling out through the day, but you can play around with it right now.
 

Lakitu

st5fu
Yes! Postman came with a beautiful little package that includes Halo 4. I hope the rest of UK-GAF receive the rest of their games today from Shopto. I have a few errands but after that I'm gonna install :)
 
Yes! Postman came with a beautiful little package that includes Halo 4. I hope the rest of UK-GAF receive the rest of their games today from Shopto. I have a few errands but after that I'm gonna install :)

Mine just came as well, I don't know why I ever doubted shopto.
Now I have to wait 3 hours before I can play.
 
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