Has anyone tried to play BF2 on dial up?

[XX55XX]

Re: Has anyone tried to play BF2 on dial up?

just get DSL/Cable!!

Well, that would have been the best solution. But my parents do not get why DSL is needed and it's "faster" in what sense. I tend to agree with the this view, dial up is fine for me at the moment. The only problem is online gaming... But even then I don't experience too many problems.

Bah, I'll gamble with this title. Even if I can't play on 90 percent of the servers, I can still play single player with bots and there are still some single player mods... Plus, there might be some nearby servers I can be able to play on...

Argh why did EA drop support for 56K for this game? There are still plenty of us 56K users around...

You don't realize the amount of data that is being recieved by the client, the server handles all alot of the calcuations for game data and sends it back to the client. So basically, alot of lag :P

Of course, as I have said, this can be remedied by strictly only playing on servers within a 300 mile radius.

Also, how much information is transfered to the client per second?

Doing a bit of research, I find results from playing on dial up rather mixed. Some Brit in another forum claimed that he was able to play BF2 on dial up by strictly only connecting to UK servers and states that he gets a ping of 100-150. Another person claimed that he was able to play, although the only servers he was able to connect to were the ones in his country. But, he could only play on two servers alone and sometimes they go empty during the daytime.

Also, there have been people who state that dial up is rather poor, claiming that he got 600 ping and waited for an extremely long to time to respawn and he was able to really kill anybody and was soon ousted from the server. There was another person who states that playing on dial up (although playable, he got banned from several servers for too high a ping.)

Rather mixed. It seems that I can't conclude anything until I try it for myself.

[thinkingbear]

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my parents do not get why DSL is needed and it's "faster" in what sense.

Broadband has far lower latency (usually) than a dial up connection and that's what it is all about. I remember back when broadband was just starting to come out but most players were still on dial up, if you had broadband you got called an LBP Low Ping Bastard and some servers would consider it cheating and kick you. So yeah, ping on dial up can be that much worse than broadband. And its only like $2-$5 more per month than dial up now anyway :)

[XX55XX]

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I am aware that a faster connection gives better latency, but as my parents are not Internet users, they see little use in that extra 7 dollars a month. If they were, they would understand.

Maybe I might ask them to cut cable and make it up through DSL, but I highly dobut that my parents are willing to give up their cable...

[Ali G]

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tell them that ur willing to pay for that extra $7 by getting a job or doing chores or w/e...just say that ur a grown boy now and needs his own little world. they will understand

[Dearmad]

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To the OP, here's your answer: I bothered to try this once for fun. It wasn't.

I am in Seattle and there were a load of nearby servers. Lowest pings I could get were around 100 or so. But the problem is there's simply too much data. It made for an impossisble experience. This game requires at least 3x the bandwidth you can get through a 56k modem.

Sorry to you, but seriously, you have alternatives you can afford, I'm sure. Try cable or even directtv hookups for data thorugh sattelite. Hm... sortya cool that.

Good luck.

[XX55XX]

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tell them that ur willing to pay for that extra $7 by getting a job or doing chores or w/e...just say that ur a grown boy now and needs his own little world. they will understand

I do a lot of chores and community service, but still they refuse. If I gave them my reasons, they write them off. Plus, they explain that I'm able to complete my homework, view video clips over BBC news, among other things, so why would I need a faster connection?

That will long to resolve. For now, I'm thinking of workarounds to play BF2 on my dial up. I've looked into a ton of archives on this site, and some state that they play on incredibly poor quality broadband which transfer information at roughly 30 kilobytes per second. A modem can transfer 5.5 kilobytes per second. Why can't playing on dial up be achieved?

[zipp0r]

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YES THEY DO impact the server performance. High Pingers LAgg up everyone else.

no they dont, BUT..... they do stutter about making them harder to hit and they can kill you after u go round a corner, even a 100 pinger is like that to sum1 with a 20ping. they have a lame reaction time tho if the ping is high.

[Ali G]

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Plus, they explain that I'm able to complete my homework, view video clips over BBC news, among other things, so why would I need a faster connection?

So you can play BF2, duh

[« R²» HKS]

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Not possible. You will be kicked by PB for packet loss. I have played when I was capped back to 64k and that's what happens, you get kicked by PB for packet loss after a minute or 2.

[stilla-killa]

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my friend has dial up b/c he lives in the country and has tried to play bf2. he can connect to BFHQ but not to a server

[-=TS=-stuntridah]

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I do a lot of chores and community service, but still they refuse. If I gave them my reasons, they write them off. Plus, they explain that I'm able to complete my homework, view video clips over BBC news, among other things, so why would I need a faster connection?

That will long to resolve. For now, I'm thinking of workarounds to play BF2 on my dial up. I've looked into a ton of archives on this site, and some state that they play on incredibly poor quality broadband which transfer information at roughly 30 kilobytes per second. A modem can transfer 5.5 kilobytes per second. Why can't playing on dial up be achieved?

Get a job and get broadband. If I do a bandwith sped test it is usually over 6 MBP/s

[sassback]

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sorta irrelevant but what type of ping can one expect with 300kbps DSL?

[imported_Boots]

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my frat brother would love to play bf2 but he cant because he lives in rural pa (operation harvest) and they dont offer any fast interweb there.

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Has anyone tried to play BF2 on dial up?

I realize that this isn't the answer you want, but you can't play bf2 on dial up.

[Revoluti0n]

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YES THEY DO impact the server performance. High Pingers LAgg up everyone else.

Give me a link that proves it.