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Originally Posted by The Rob
I'm gonna switch from a 1mb down 160k up dsl connection to a cable 4.1mb down and 800kb up connection.

Now, my question is will I be able to host 16 player xbox games or 16 player pc games lag free? (pc games like unreal 2004 let's say)

Will you be able to always host games lag-free? No. It's the Internet. There's a lot of variables outside of the link between you and your ISP.

Does your ISP even guarantee that the connection will always be over that certain speed they quoted you?

What about other players in the game? If a player in your session has a slow cable/dsl connection (and many do!), then it's likely they're going to be skipping around the 3D world in your "lag-free environment."

There are other local factors to consider. If you are on a shared pipe with your neighbors and the kid next door is serving up pirated copies of popular movies on P2P, your connection's going to feel it.

Ultimately, it sounds like you'll have a great network connection and things should go extremely well for you most of the time. However, anyone making guarantees of lag-free gaming is not being entirely truthful.

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