P2P Throttling

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I was wondering if anyone would know if sins network traffic could be seen as P2P files sharing traffic and if this might cause problems with ISPs like Comcast that are know to throttle P2P traffic?

Also, does anyone know how I might give feedback/suggestion to a dev for the game?

Thanks
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Word of advice, if you have another option, ditch comcast. This is coming from someone who knows for certain its a good idea. Well, it somewhat depends on where you are, most places comcast is not the best choice.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You can play MP decently with a 2 kb/s connection, I doubt it uses much bandwidth.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
its not the BW its the latency, comcast is worse down there than rogers is here.

Edit: And you remember the 2 months I spent with 800ms ping right? this dialup has lower latency most of the time than that rogers connection did.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
You can play MP decently with a 2 kb/s connection, I doubt it uses much bandwidth.
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You mean 2mb/s, surely?

Would comcast be an American provider then? Cos if it is, I can offer no help.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
You mean 2mb/s, surely?Would comcast be an American provider then? Cos if it is, I can offer no help.
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Nope. A player just posted a few days ago that he'd successfully played online with a 28.8 dialup connection. He said it was a bit laggy, but pretty playable.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
You mean 2mb/s, surely?Would comcast be an American provider then? Cos if it is, I can offer no help.Nope. A player just posted a few days ago that he'd successfully played online with a 28.8 dialup connection. He said it was a bit laggy, but pretty playable.
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Yeppers, you're talking about me :) Bad lag like I said, but you could play w/ a friend vs AI or low-skill player or something no problem. You can play on a comcast connection, but as I said, the latency can often actually be WORSE than dialup. The bandwidth throttling you shouldn't have to worry about because yeah, a connection that gets 3.0 Kilobytes/S download on a VERY GOOD DAY(2.6 max most of the time) can play it without a real load of noticeable degradation other than the lag of it being dialup. it was a tad laggier than diablo 2 normally is, aka theres a lag spike every 6-7 seconds rather than every 10 seconds. No competitive playing for sure, but AI stomping works just fine.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
I use comcast at home -- no choice -- and (most) of the time I don't have a problem. The one time so far I've had an issue it was with one single player and intermittent, and a new host fixed it (probably a bad hop somewhere).
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I use comcast at home -- no choice -- and (most) of the time I don't have a problem. The one time so far I've had an issue it was with one single player and intermittent, and a new host fixed it (probably a bad hop somewhere).
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as I said previously... its highly dependant on where you are. Some locations have comcast connections that I would KILL to have.... (12ms ping to a server in the UK from NH anyone?) but a lot of the other areas are terrible... used to be total crap all over california but they've done some network upgrading and whatnot... not AS bad now but still not nearly as good as it should be. Getting a decent comcast connection in florida is like winning the jackpot. They STILL haven't buried most of their lines in florida yet.

But yeah, a lot of it is hit or miss... you could literally be 100% fine on your node, but then some guys 10-15 houses down the street thats on a 15 year old node thats on the fritz(and will have to get very very bad before they'll replace it) could be looking at 300+ms latency.