People in the UK on BlueYonder - Please post your experience

Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:31 pm

Just wondering what the general feeling is like when using Kai in the UK on BlueYonder Smile

I have the 750k down and 128k up connection and I have to say its POOR when hosting games Sad

128k rarely gets above 14k in real life Sad

I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading to one of BlueYonders higer packages so I can host better??

SO! If you are in the UK and use BlueYonder .... Please post Cool

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:27 am

I dont know what the deal is with Blueyonder and NTL - They always have crappy upload speeds.

And fyi, a 128k upload's max upload speed IS 15kb/s. (Bit odd, considering any aDSL conenction you get, they usually have 256k upload).

Before you go upgrading your internet connetion, make sure the one your upgrading to has a faster upload than 128k.

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:49 am

Gmc wrote:

I dont know what the deal is with Blueyonder and NTL - They always have crappy upload speeds.

And fyi, a 128k upload's max upload speed IS 15kb/s. (Bit odd, considering any aDSL conenction you get, they usually have 256k upload).

Before you go upgrading your internet connetion, make sure the one your upgrading to has a faster upload than 128k.

Yeh i knew that about the 15k upload, even though ive rarely seen it above 14 some people claim to have seen 22k? But thats as rare as actual 500k downloads Wink

Also, I belive 1mb upgrade has a 256 upload?

Anyway man, what games you got? We could probably have a decent session if your on a similer connection as me Wink

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Posts: 1871

im using Blueyonder, and am very happy with it even with a 128 up i still manage to host some good games, but in games like halo i always tend to join.

i mainly play Topspin, RallySport Challange 2, PGR2, Rainbow Six 3.

with the exception of RS3 I host when there is no other games available.

I used to be on AOL, but imo there service was poor, some days would be great others, you could hardly play.

I will be upgrading to 1500/256 soon, and i am looking forward to the extra up speed.

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:44 am

taz wrote:

im using Blueyonder, and am very happy with it even with a 128 up i still manage to host some good games, but in games like halo i always tend to join.

i mainly play Topspin, RallySport Challange 2, PGR2, Rainbow Six 3.

with the exception of RS3 I host when there is no other games available.

I used to be on AOL, but imo there service was poor, some days would be great others, you could hardly play.

I will be upgrading to 1500/256 soon, and i am looking forward to the extra up speed.

Sounds good man! Post your findings when you upgrade ;P I may join you as you have just described my expereice of Xlink with the blueyonder service to a tee Smile