I have a download speed of 1.5 mbps a upload speed of 256 kbps and a ping of 850-1500?

I want to play battlefield play4free, bad company 2, and call of duty games multiplayer on my pc if i get a server will that stop all the lag.I have a download speed of 1.5 mbps a upload speed of 256 kbps and a ping of 850-1500?
That's a pretty complex topic. The crucial issue is the path from you to the other players. Lag comes from two separate and unrelated issues - bandwidth and latency. If the connection were plumbing, bandwidth would be the diameter of the pipes and latency would be the length of the pipes. The maximum flow is determined by the smallest pipe in the path while the response to the turning the faucet on is in the length of the pipes. Those correspond to the speed (not just at your connection but throughout the path) and the ping time, respectively.



In your case the problem is in the latency. The ping time of as much as a second and a half round trip is what is killing you (he he). That problem exists somewhere out in the network. Where? Try "tracert" instead of ping... it will tell you the entire path to the destination and the latency on each leg. (The tracert numbers don't add up to the ping numbers for reasons I don't completely understand and nobody seems able to explain well.) For example, when I do tracert from my computer to yahoo.com I get:

Tracing route to yahoo.com [98.137.149.56] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms %26lt;1 ms %26lt;1 ms 192.168.1.1 (my router)

2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.241.192.1 (my ISP's router)

3 * * * Request timed out. (unpingable device in my ISP, probably)

4 30 ms 29 ms 31 ms 24.121.124.110

5 29 ms 29 ms 30 ms 173-219-243-28-link.sta.suddenlink.net [173.219.243.28]

6 29 ms 30 ms 29 ms 173-219-243-36-link.sta.suddenlink.net [173.219.243.36]

7 30 ms 29 ms 34 ms sjoeosr03-10gex2-1.pac.sta.suddenlink.ne鈥?[66.76.175.38]

8 32 ms 30 ms 30 ms 66-76-175-138-Yahoo.pac.sta.suddenlink.n鈥?[66.76.175.138]

9 30 ms 31 ms 31 ms ae-1-d160.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.61]

10 33 ms 33 ms 30 ms et-18-25.fab4-1-gdc.sp2.yahoo.com [67.195.128.79]

11 30 ms 31 ms 31 ms te-9-3.bas2-1-prd.sp2.yahoo.com [67.195.130.110]

12 29 ms 31 ms 31 ms ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com [98.137.149.56]

Trace complete.



My pings vary from 31 to 128 ms, with the variation showing up (when I run tracert several times) in hop 6. Any path that includes that overloaded link will have high latency. Unfortunately, there is little you and I can do to improve that. You can try a different ISP but once you get beyond hop 3 or 4 all the ISPs in your area are going to be using the same pipe.



Bottom line: you are going to die quickly and often pretty much no matter what you do. You can take pride in providing entertainment to your fellow players and you qualify for the "good sport" award.I have a download speed of 1.5 mbps a upload speed of 256 kbps and a ping of 850-1500?
you have connection good enough for online gaming. find a server that is near to you, join and check your ping. if you aren't having a decent in-game ping, it is surely due bad routing, usualy although you get a bad ping at start due to bad routing, your router finds the best route eventually. if it doesn't happen call your isp and explain the bad routing issue.I have a download speed of 1.5 mbps a upload speed of 256 kbps and a ping of 850-1500?
Nah , that ain't good.I get around 11 Mbps and at least 5 most of the time.your upload speed is weak too but it shouldn't effect your game play as much as download speed.

Switch to a different ISP , cuz otherwise i don't know what else you can do... your games will lag.