Battlefield 4 on a 2mb line?

[Yusuf.B]

Hi guys. I'm interested in a new first person shooter multiplayer game for pc. From what i've reviewed Battlefield 4 looks great. I was just wondering if my Afrihost 2mb line would be good enough for playing the game. Would I experience any lag issues at all or will it run fine? Also know of any retailer I can get the game for a decent price? Thanks.

 

[DARKSEID]

2mb afrihost is 100. i have the same and game on it. Also check out CS GO.

 

[Oj0]

I don't know about that. Mweb 2 Mb/s premium uncapped, 23ms ping average. Afrihost capped unshaped 2 Mb/s, 120ms ping average with spikes into the 600 range

 

[DARKSEID]

I don't know about that. Mweb 2 Mb/s premium uncapped, 23ms ping average. Afrihost capped unshaped 2 Mb/s, 120ms ping average with spikes into the 600 range

I'm on a capped account,with my line at telkom,never had a problem ingame

 

[Esea]

Battlefield 4 (pc Dvd-rom) | Buy Online in South Africa | takealot.com

 

[s0rr0w]

Should be fine, both myself and a friend plays BF4 on 2meg lines. He's using uncapped Telkom, I'm on a capped Openweb account.

 

[Jimmy-Z]

I don't know about that. Mweb 2 Mb/s premium uncapped, 23ms ping average. Afrihost capped unshaped 2 Mb/s, 120ms ping average with spikes into the 600 range

I have the exact same problem with Afrihost. Last night I couldn't even stream youtube & I'm on a 10mb line.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Speed is not that important, but latency is. 2Mb/s will be fine to play all good games online.

But in my experience with AH, don't count on it.

 

[Deku]

I know allot of my friends on afrihost actually moved away from them because there ping would spike and even on there site at one point like a month ago they had a notice of having issues.I play Counter strike with a 4 Mbps line (webafrica and i get 15 ping) where my friends get around 40-120 with there isp's

 

[AceSwiftShooter]

Its all about the latency. I used to play on 1Mb no prob. Go with an ISP that offers good latency.

 

[J37]

When I first moved into my new place (four ways), I tested a friends capped Afrihost account (I have a Telkom line) my latency was 23, I switched over to my Mweb uncapped 4mb premium account and my latency went down to 9... No downloads running. In terms of gaming and latency from my personal experience and from what my friends have said Afrihost is definitely not the way to go.

 

[Dilli]

I have played a lot of Battlefield 3 on a telkom 2mb uncapped line (often with my brother playing to over the same line) - didn't have any problem.

I bought some prepaid afrihost and openweb data to try when gaming on foreign servers, they seemed to work just as well - for the most part it changed from week to week which one was better. That said I did notice that sometimes the best had the highest pings because it had the lowest jitter; telkom ping was maybe a third lower but would peak to double on occasion, this does seem to be resolved though.

 

[speedz]

What is the size of patches for this game now?

Sent from my phone

 

[Yusuf.B]

Thanks for the replies guys. Hopefully I won't experience any issues running BF4 on multiplayer with Afrihost. If I do, will most prob give Mweb a try.

 

[Yusuf.B]

Battlefield 4 (pc Dvd-rom) | Buy Online in South Africa | takealot.com

Lol. Placed my order with them before I read the post. Thanks

 

[Esea]

Lol. Placed my order with them before I read the post. Thanks

Platoons - Battlelog / Battlefield 4

 

[Yusuf.B]

Platoons - Battlelog / Battlefield 4

Awesome. Will need some practice on pc until I get to you guys skill lvl.

 

[SILTECH786]

Once i get uncapped and my 980 ti , I would like to play BF4 and cs go aswell but will need lots of practice haha

 

[Yusuf.B]

Guys. How is this result? Afrihost 2mb line capped . Wireless connection to router.

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Will this result be satisfactory for Battlefield 4 or would I need something faster, better ping?

 

[nan0s0ldier]

Guys. How is this result? Afrihost 2mb line capped . Wireless connection to router.

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Will this result be satisfactory for Battlefield 4 or would I need something faster, better ping?

that ping is really high for a server that you live near... Try use a lan cable and kick everyone off the network and do the test again...

 

[Yusuf.B]

Unfortunately I have a faulty phone line connection in the room where my pc is located so I won't be able to use a lan cable. The modem is situated in another room.

 

[Cranky]

The best isp for gaming on a local server is telkom. And this is by a very very long way. Its so much so that if you are not on a telkom account you can feel it one or 2 rounds in. Before you guys go mental on the telkom hate wagon. Get a free trial account. Run it for an evening and thank me later. Almost every single fps player i know has some otehr form of cheap cap for downloads and a telkom capped account for when they play league games.

2mb is fine. We have had 4 okes playing Bf4 on a 2mb line.


And get a ethernet over power plug and use that or get a normal Rj11 line extension 15m cord and use that to get it to your room. You dont really want to play any game on wifi unless you have to.

 

[Zaggermeister]

Hey man, just wanted to say that your line speed doesn't have any effect on your ping. I'm with Telkom and I get an average ping of 35 from Rustenburg to Cape Town servers. Just make sure you're with the right ISP.

 

[Snipe]

My son and I play online together on a wifi connection, no lag. 4Mb MWeb line, standard Telkom issue Netgear router, each of us on a 150Mb TP-Link USB dongle (Team Fortess 2, Counterstrike mainly)

It used to be that even if only one was playing we would get lag most days.

This helped:
- Set 2 PCs to highest priority in QOS on router
- In power management, set wireless adapters to "Maximum performance" (big difference)
- Ran a utility called SG TCP optimiser from speedguide.net. It auto configs your Windows network settings based on line speed (I think).
- In advanced wifi adapter settings, changed one of the params from "Performance" to "Wifi". Still don't know exactly what it sets, but made a HUGE difference (basically solved the lag issue).

Long story short, it's not just the ISP, tweaking your side can make the difference between "happy" and "crap".

BTW...was originally with Telkom, moved to MWeb because of crap Telkom service. That was my experience...

 

[Yusuf.B]

Thanks for the tips guys. Have been playing bf4 for over a week now, I seem to get a lot of lag with my Afrihost 2mb line during the day but it goes down at night. It goes from 220/160 during the day to 45/60 during the evening. Seems like ping is dependant on peak/off-peak times with Afrihost. Might just change over to Mweb coz lag makes it unplayable at times. Also going to fix my phone connection line soon so I can connect the modem directly to the pc.