Party Hosting

Here is the results of my speedtest on www.speedtest.com tested from my PS3:



Ping: The lower, the better
Download: General gameplay
Upload: How fast you upload information(vital for hosting)

Low Ping + High upload=Good host!

It's not the best, but most people in the games I host get 3 and 4 bars.

Test on your home PC and/or PS3 and post your results here

i'll have a go at this tonight. i'm switching my connection to a wired one this weekend so it should be good to see the results. i can remember that my upload was VERY sh*t at 171kb/s

A networking cable gives you a more stable connection. When you use wireless, it's a bit sketchy. Keep an eye out for the latency(ping) too. <50 will mean your shots will register before most. If you have a ping of over 100, I suggest sticking to explosives or using an assault rifle at a distance!

My upload isn't the best, but most people get 3 or 4 bars. I think I hosted a ground war okay, but don't hold me to that.

I should never ever host then because my wireless is below the required needed for online play don't know how it still works

This is my latest test:

don't count me in. i have a wireless connection but i can be the host in last resort cuz my modem is less than 1 meter away from the ps3 XD

i wired my PS3 last night instead of having wireless and i think it made such a difference!! the game felt alot smother and quicker in some kind of way, i was doing crap in groundwar because i just wasn't used to having the quicker reactions

Glad to hear it! Test your speed again. Use your PC to do it. Sometimes the upload doesn't run when you test from the PS3.

LocoChaz006 wrote:

Glad to hear it! Test your speed again. Use your PC to do it. Sometimes the upload doesn't run when you test from the PS3.

ok

i'll give it a go when i get home tonight

Swamps, could you do the test? It's just to see if you'd be a better game host than me.

this was done not long ago but im running 2 pc's and 2 ps3's of my wireless but am hoping to hardwire my connection (involves a bit of hassle and moving either the modem or just the router)within the next 2 weeks so that should make it a lot stronger
*edit i will point out that us in the uk never get a good upload speed all down to our service providers there a bit stingy so hostings always a problem unless the game lobby is full of uk players...

That's a better connection than mine. When you get hard wired, you'll host the parties, so everyone gets a decent ping.

LocoChaz006 wrote:

That's a better connection than mine. When you get hard wired, you'll host the parties, so everyone gets a decent ping.

no prob's i really wanna get it done as soon as i can but i gotta wait on the stuff to be delivered which is hopefully in the next week or so

well i finally got it all set up and now im hardwired to the ps3 i tried to do a speedtest on the ps3 from speedtest.net but it wouldn't do the upload test not sure why i tried 5 or 6 times and i've tested it before when it was a wireless connection....

i know my connection's better on there from what it did do as the ping was holding around the 25-30 mark as it normall goes to about 50 and my download speed was peaking at 24mb so i can only guess that my upload should be somewhere around the 1mb mark..

as from the other night aswell it wasn't to bad i know we were only doing a TT but i'd still like to see what its like with a full 12 people and me hosting....

well im satisfied with my connection now hosted 2 full domination games on friday daytime just to test it and it was fine plus was a host for a fair few s&d games on sat and that was just as good not 100% sure if anyone who was in the game's had any problems with lag but i was checking the bars on the score screen and everyone was getting either 3 or 4 bars

Yeah, your connection is better than mine, so when we're all on you should host.