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[Teebee]

Putting on my IT manager hat i'm still not convinced, let me give you examples. I'm on 10mb cable, connected to my router are:

My PC: Running Opera browser with always in excess of 30 tabs open using 600mb RAM, Warcraft playing on full settings.
Wife's PC: Running Facebook in 1 IE8 window
Daughters PC: Running Facebook in 1 IE8 window, plus youtube music vids
Xbox360 playing online games
2 * Iphones connected but not necessarily in use.

Now this isn't all the time but it is frequent enough, and none of us have link problems. The only time Warcraft became unplayable for me was when my daughter loaded Limewire, I killed that sharpish.

Personally I would look elsewhere as any regular broadband should be able to support your usage.

[TheBoy]

Nope, the console + game combo must be poor.

Remember, when my consoles go online, they have to fight all the traffic of OOF, plus other hosted services, plus syncs to internet, VPN to my brothers, plus whatever else the 21 VMs on the OOF server happen to be doing at any point (christ knows!).  Yet its utterly unheard of for my consoles to drop out.  And I'd put my right bollock that you have a faster connection speed

Mind you, hasn't improved my CoD abilities

[TheBoy]

Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.

I think your issue is elsewhere.

[Martin_1962]

Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.

I think your issue is elsewhere.

Homehub router?

[Martin_1962]

Nope, the console + game combo must be poor.

Remember, when my consoles go online, they have to fight all the traffic of OOF, plus other hosted services, plus syncs to internet, VPN to my brothers, plus whatever else the 21 VMs on the OOF server happen to be doing at any point (christ knows!).  Yet its utterly unheard of for my consoles to drop out.  And I'd put my right bollock that you have a faster connection speed

Mind you, hasn't improved my CoD abilities

After the equivalent of 10 days play I am actually now not bad at Uncharted 2 online

[TheBoy]

Those gay Facebook games are designed for low bandwidth.

I think your issue is elsewhere.

Homehub router?

Nope.  The game/console/gaming service should be able to cope with varying latency, seeing as virtually all users we be on ADSL or cable.

[Teebee]

Are you connecting to the hub via wi-fi? If so can you try a direct connection with a Cat5 cable, my pos Zyxel router had issues with the xbox wi-fi that ended up with me just disabling n and only leaving b/g active.