So for all of you who are still using your 300-baud modems, clinging onto dreams of becoming an uber hacker like Matthew Broderick in WarGames, you might want to consider getting a broadband connection if you'd like to play Diablo 3 when it comes out."For online games it's not usually the bandwidth (your 1800kb/s) but the latency that's a factor. Latency is the time it takes for data to leave your machine, hit the game server, and return back. In general games aren't sending enough data where it would actually bottleneck because of your bandwidth, there are exceptions but I think you should be ok."
Greetings, Professor Falken.
Hello, Joshua.
Shall we play a game?
Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of Diablo 3?
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
Fine.
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Posted Feb 18, 2009but ya. thats the kind of connections we have up here. thank god by the time this game comes out ill be in college down in a city area with better connection. yay!!
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Posted Feb 20, 2009His statement did not mean we're gonna need broadband for Diablo 3; it means the opposite--that dial-up connections should work just fine so long as they are stable.
In a thread that has already devolved into a chance for each forum member to brag about his connection speed, I felt it important to highlight that fact again.