Jetstart will not noticeably increase your ping during game play, and may
even decrease it in some cases.
1. The games realm is still uncapped, so you get jetstream speeds on it.
2. Games typically use < 24k bandwidth. Latency only increases once
you start nearing your circuit capacity. Almost all the gamers I am
aware of, and that is quite a few, switched to Jetstart from Jetstream
and have never looked back.
3. You get access to more servers. If you connect to an ISP that has
its own game servers, they will be faster to reach on Jetstart then
over Jetstream in a lot of cases, because of the routing.
The only time you will miss performance are on big downloads from fast
sights, and for watching live video streams and similar. (Audio streams
should not be affected, as they are normally quite small).
Cheers,
David Gottschalk
Web InterNet Ltd
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Brislen wrote:
>
> So can I ask about this from the other end of the spectrum...
>
>
> how much better than JetStart is JetStream?
>
>
> I'm asking because I worked from home (WFH) for a couple of days last month
> and almost doubled my bill....
>
> I like to game online and really like the JetStream ping (mmmm, ping) -
> will JetStart make me into a living target again?
>
> I watch the odd movie trailer but most of my work is text/email/surfing
> based... not a lot of huge file transfers and the like.
>
> Is it worth my while dropping down to a capped-price service or will I miss
> that V6 performance?
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
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