What kind of internet is recommened to play this game?
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Hey there!
I want to comment here that oos with Path of Exile doesn't happen solely due to network speed. I'm working on a video that covers how to test your system to know exactly where the issue comes from. I'm making this video based upon community feedback. I hope you'll find it useful to increase your enjoyment while playing path of exile! Best, Hellcat5 http://www.youtube.com/richardbmiller2 YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/richardbmiller2
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" Just go read the manifesto on desync, it covers it prety well even if people don't seem to want to understand it. Ancestral Bond. It's a thing that does stuff. -Vipermagi
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" This is price I have to pay when living 7 miles from blizzard and getting 20 pings. Im a little further from when I played D3 but its still like an offline game. ppl used to tell me I was playing a different game than they were....Distance seems key. Git R Dun!
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ram is more important
this laptop (asus) a 2007 version has only 4gb and freqeuntly has crashes my 2011 samsung had 6gb worked like a charm somehow the asus outlived the samsung by far my new one will have 8gb thats for sure my internet is slow compared to others here 2down/128 or something up and i have 10+ chars in high 80s hc https://poe-ssf.herokuapp.com/. Join the fun.
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I've placed top 5 in races in the past on 56k internet. POE is one of the best games to play when you've maxed out your monthly limit because it doesn't even bother to check with the server except for a bare minimum so the bandwidth is very low.
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" yep, there is little data being exchanged so MBit/second isn't really important, latency (ping to the next ggg server is). analog modems had horrible speed but (at least in the beginning) better latency than dsl modems. age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill!
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" If you consider PoE in a vaccume you could reasonably expect to be able to play on a 56K connection as the average aggregate network usage is around 2KB/s (assuming solo play). If you're experiencing significant latency issues one obvious cause would be other software -- on either your, or someone else's-- computer utilizing the network while you play. "The problem is there ARE secure netcodes" -- Pewzor
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when we had .512-1.5 down, 256 up, the game was fine if home alone but I could tell from the way the monsters moved when someone else in the house was loading a webpage.
At 8 down, .5(ish) up, play was fine, others loading webpages was fine, watching a stream could make it a little desyncy, but suddenly if another computer ran apple update, it would make poe completely unplayable for several minutes. Now at a new place we have 20 down, 2 up, and nothing done on our end, apple update, watching youtube/stream/net tv stuff, etc, affects poe performance at all. Note the actual base ping and the usual game performance above has not changed at all. The only thing the extra speed did, was protect me from housemates downloads. And the only way to improve that base ping is to be closer to the server, or possibly a minor change by using an isp that uses a better route to the server. That said, from playing on different servers and connections on PoE, the difference between 20 ping and 100 ping is fairly minor unless you're playing a very desyncy build. 100-200 though is a pretty noticeable difference in sync, so it's somewhere in the hundreds that it seems to reach a critical point that hurts the AI. |
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" if you have access to your router you can login and setup the "quality of service" settings to prefer poe's data over web-traffic and filesharing. it's not really the bandwith which is limiting, it's that the router is busy handling other traffic and increasing your latency.
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it's easy to get the ports poe uses, just download and start tcpview from microsoft. other users in your lan won't notice a thing as you don't block the internet access by transfering some Bytes/second. age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill! Last edited by vio#1992 on Mar 10, 2015, 7:14:52 AM
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