Best ISP for playing in Garena

[shontrix]

What is the best ISP to play/host in Garena, Iam using GP and I lag like sh1t.. my ping is IMBA 711!! ... Some say its impossible to play a lagless game with GP due due to low latency... is it true??

[CvP]

any ISP that can give you stable net i.e. speed remains more than some level constantly,
doesn't disconnects frequently, has good routing to the Internet Exchange.

currently, Smile, BracNet, BDCOM (and a few others) are among the best.
but that doesn't mean they are the best possible.

for example, smile has a tendency of frequent disconnect while bracNet
players get dropped from game a lot..apparently for no reason.
and BDCOM some times makes it impossible to play with people
who are not using BDCOM.


fortunately for me, the local ISP in my area fulfills all the criteria
i even remain connected for days i.e. no disconnects.
and the pings are super low all the time (even at peak hours).

[Codex]

Man,Gp gets dissed while dling Normal files.I get dissed a lot of times while dling big files(I.e:500mB).So it's perrrfectly clear that gp will suck on online gaming.But my dl speeds are super Usually 35kBps or a bit lower.

[Noob™]

gpinternet? wireless internet is not yet as fast here. there is always >500ms ping.

[TE. JOHN]

Gp!! It sucks for online gaming. I have gp, download speed is 12-20 but its not constant speed. So gp? Its quite impossible to play a lagfree garena game.

[Codex]

My gp speed is pretey constant but that ridiculously high ping is the prob.And Gp is not what Wireless net is.That's Wlan or Wifi.They have serous speed on em in ither countries.

[GiDDY_SOUL]

Smile
Excellent but few dissconnects (you have to Dial again)

Brac
Excellent but few dissconnects (many users r marked X in garena if u r a user of Brac & you have to tunnel to get to them)

When You tunnel some1. Suppose you are A and want to connect to B.
It will search the best possible route to B some1 from the room (thats the reason why you get sth like found 3 tunnels with 3 different pings) it will connect to B through some1 elses PC & if this PC dissconnects or used heavy internet You will dissconnect or experience LAG!

CvP said that Brac users get dissconets for no reason, that not true. its becuz of the tunnel i guess.

My 2 paisa (bangla version of My 2 cents)
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong

[blade63]

hey giddy,how much do u lag in garena anyway in all games???heard u have bracnet,but the dl speed is so bad that i dont think u and most brac users can play with low ping......

[<nfs>j0j0]

Smile is the best still for playing in garena. But in recent times we cant even play in singapore or malaysia while we could host there just 2 months ago.
And dont believe giddy, at least not his new signature, he's a blufffaster

[rzv_devilz]

smile is the best isp for garena.my download speed 25-30.i always play a lagfree game.

[GiDDY_SOUL]

hey giddy,how much do u lag in garena anyway in all games???heard u have bracnet,but the dl speed is so bad that i dont think u and most brac users can play with low ping......

Ya.. for the last 2 months I am getting like very bad speed, but the ping is low (Lower ping is better)
You need 4-6 KBps bandwidth to play Dota smooth(Jojo's host i get "0"-green Ping, smile user, )
You need 16-20 KBps to host Dota 5v5 Dota.

I get 9KBps @ 600tk (Brac net through Local ISP)
My frnd gets 16KBps @ 1000tk

So ya.. the speed is slow.. & they often block torrent!


Overall Smile is better. You have to get used to those disconnects and Dial again.


@jojo - LOLz

[Codex]

Even noW?Mu dl got decreased from 35 to 25

[CvP]

Smile
When You tunnel some1. Suppose you are A and want to connect to B.
It will search the best possible route to B some1 from the room (thats the reason why you get sth like found 3 tunnels with 3 different pings) it will connect to B through some1 elses PC & if this PC dissconnects or used heavy internet You will dissconnect or experience LAG!

CvP said that Brac users get dissconets for no reason, that not true. its becuz of the tunnel i guess.

My 2 paisa (bangla version of My 2 cents)
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong

it is NOT sm1's PC. it is routers.
if you are getting X, that means there's no direct path configured between you and the target.
tunnel = find some indirect path.


by "disc'd for no reason" i meant that their net stays ok (from their end), host's net is ok (as well as other players) but they (brac users) just suddenly gets dropped.

this only means that the router(s) gets overloaded/restarted frequently.

Man,Gp gets dissed while dling Normal files.I get dissed a lot of times while dling big files(I.e:500mB).So it's perrrfectly clear that gp will suck on online gaming.But my dl speeds are super Usually 35kBps or a bit lower.

gpinternet? wireless internet is not yet as fast here. there is always >500ms ping.

here's a universal truth: GPRS/EDGE is never meant for online gaming (except pool/chess).
they are not designed in that way. by design, GPRS/EDGE (and even 3G iirc) has a minimum ping
of ~250ms. for a decent game, you need <60ms ping.

it doesn't matter if it is USA or Bangladesh.

however, wireless/radiolink internet can be used depending on the service quality provided by the ISP.

[GiDDY_SOUL]

BTW i have a question CvP.

Garena isnt supposed to consume about 3-4 KBps of bandwidth when its Idle r8?
Sometimes garena uses a constant bandwidth of 3-4 KBps when i am not playing for no reason! Like today.. It was there for more than an hour. It used to go for a few sec or minutes and then starts consuming Bandwidth again :S

Wat could b it?

[CvP]

it does.

for the ads, for the chat, room people count update, your level update, room join/leave updates etc etc.

[GiDDY_SOUL]

it does.

for the ads, for the chat, room people count update, your level update, room join/leave updates etc etc.

Even for those it shouldnt take more than 1 hour!! For those updates,etc Garena consumes just 0.5KBps but not 5KBps constant! Somethings Fishy :S

[shontrix]

here's a universal truth: GPRS/EDGE is never meant for online gaming (except pool/chess).
they are not designed in that way. by design, GPRS/EDGE (and even 3G iirc) has a minimum ping
of ~250ms. for a decent game, you need <60ms ping.

it doesn't matter if it is USA or Bangladesh.

however, wireless/radiolink internet can be used depending on the service quality provided by the ISP.

Thanks for the info :'(

[SinEater]

Wireless/Radio is never good for gaming. Because it is dependent on weather and interference....

[Pyro.Dynamics-]

Smile
Excellent but few dissconnects (you have to Dial again)

Brac
Excellent but few dissconnects (many users r marked X in garena if u r a user of Brac & you have to tunnel to get to them)

When You tunnel some1. Suppose you are A and want to connect to B.
It will search the best possible route to B some1 from the room (thats the reason why you get sth like found 3 tunnels with 3 different pings) it will connect to B through some1 elses PC & if this PC dissconnects or used heavy internet You will dissconnect or experience LAG!

CvP said that Brac users get dissconets for no reason, that not true. its becuz of the tunnel i guess.

My 2 paisa (bangla version of My 2 cents)
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong

2 cents is more than 120 paisa!

[GiDDY_SOUL]

haha .. nice catch there pyro!

Just consider the value of my post to b a lot lower.. it shouldnt be hard to imagine