High Speed Internet

Right now we have at the house a dsl connection with 2.55 up and .44 down with a ping of 230.  I know, they're abysmal.  When I play online both pc and ps3, every 3 minutes or so the game lags up so horribly it freezes/jumps around without my control.  lasts for about 15-20 seconds.
 
I remember hearing the guys saying they work with a 16 up connection at the Bomb shelter.  Do you think an upgrade to 9 up and 2-3 down would help out with my connection?  I know a hardline always helps out, thats how the ps3 is hooked up, and still get those problems.  We're going through at&t, with one computer hardlined in, ps3 hardlined in, and two wireless pc connections...

No. Down/UpSpeed isn't your problem, it's the latency.

Are you sure you don't mean 2.55 down and .44 mb/s up? Post a speedtest.net test result. Unless you are at a university, your upstream is never going to be as good as your downstream. 3 megs upstream would be more then enough for gaming. 
 
Sorry if I am not answering correctly, your post confuzzles me.
 
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URL fail, if CandleJack sucks at HTML, I am a certified retard.

I'm on a 20MB fibre optic cable at my halls of residence, (which cost me a bomb by the way), and still get some bad latency at times.
It's just something I got used to. Is it annoying? Yes. Is it worth spending money to upgrade a relatively good connection? Up to you.
 
EDIT: This was taken when most people are already out drinking.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/622621711.png
 
And sorry, I suck at HTML.

Increasing your connection speed will always improve ping, so yes. But ping has a lot to do with your geographical location as well, along with the internet traffic congestion in your local area. If you live in a far off rural area you'll get higher ping, but you'll also get higher ping if you live in a highly crowded area sharing the same service, so those are some things to be taken into consideration.  
 
There are some more indie providers that offer high speeds and a huge download cap, but it can take some time to seek them out (also parents are usually distrustful of such services), but if you can find an established one then you can get really great deals on your connection. 

Are you using a wireless modem and vista by chance?

I only have a 1 mb connect and i never suffer any real lag, unless every one on the game does too.

" Are you sure you don't mean 2.55 down and .44 mb/s up? Post a speedtest.net test result. Unless you are at a university, your upstream is never going to be as good as your downstream. 3 megs upstream would be more then enough for gaming.   Sorry if I am not answering correctly, your post confuzzles me. "

 http://www.speedtest.net/result/622623816.png
 
There's the link for the results.  Ping varies from the 230 that I said before, to the 85ish that I just got.  
 
@Rallier: One computer has Vista, and it's a laptop.  No gaming for that one though, thats just a browser/excel/word machine, so it does its job.

try doing a ping test 
http://www.pingtest.net/
 
Same idea as speedtest but just tests your ping
  
http://www.pingtest.net/result/3342746.png

Oh, and try calling your provider. They might be able to figure something out for you, if you're losing a lot of packets.
 
Try going into command prompt and type: Ping  69.147.76.15
 
this will tell you your latency for communicating with Yahoo (should be fast).
 
It will also give you stats on packet loss. After that, if it seems poor, you can try performing a traceroute to see where your packets are going to see why it's taking a long time.

@Rallier: One computer has Vista, and it's a laptop.  No gaming for that one though, thats just a browser/excel/word machine, so it does its job. "

My connection is only 2.5 mb/s, but my ping is less than 30 ms, so I'm ok for gaming.

My ping is 0, so I'm pretty set there.

hahaha, sorry to bring up the thread again, but I'm here at school went to check the speed, and got this result.  Prolly the only time I'm ever going to see something like this....
 

" My ping is 0, so I'm pretty set there. "

Matthew, that bandwidth is abysmal in most countries in the world. Given time, the US will have good infrastructure like most smaller countries (America is pretty huge you know), and ya'll yankees will be seeing 100 mbit connections for 20 bucks a month like some of us europeans. 
 
I'd say <5 years. For now, don't use wifi, it can be pretty messed up some times. And I don't really have any conclusive facts on this, but upload speed does matter for latency when gaming. Say I'm uploading alot, my ping will be in the 300-400 range and the game is unplayable. Comparing to when I'm not using it, where I have about 20-50 ping, there's a substantial difference. If you can get an affordable upgrade, go for that.

" Matthew, that bandwidth is abysmal in most countries in the world. Given time, the US will have good infrastructure like most smaller countries (America is pretty huge you know), and ya'll yankees will be seeing 100 mbit connections for 20 bucks a month like some of us europeans.  I'd say <5 years. For now, don't use wifi, it can be pretty messed up some times. And I don't really have any conclusive facts on this, but upload speed does matter for latency when gaming. Say I'm uploading alot, my ping will be in the 300-400 range and the game is unplayable. Comparing to when I'm not using it, where I have about 20-50 ping, there's a substantial difference. If you can get an affordable upgrade, go for that. "

By uploading, do you mean torrenting? Because due to the way torrenting works (something to do with 'Packets' and 'Swarms' and other fancy terms) it totally chokes the internet and obliterates any good pings you may have had. I hear the new version of uTorrent is set to fix this, but we'll have to wait and see.  If you are torrenting, I should hope it's totally legal! "  

" @ahriman22 said:

" My ping is 0, so I'm pretty set there. "

So you're saying you host the internet?  Lucky. "

" ...I remember hearing the guys saying they work with a 16 up connection at the Bomb shelter. "

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