Internet speed recuired to play City of Villains ?

Ok guys real stupid question.
What speed do you need to play City of Villains or Heroes ?
Lower than 3Mb/s is crazy right ? But between 15Mb/s and 20Mb/s is ok right ?

*head tilts*

You can play the City of Heroe's game on a 56k modem. Truthfully, you can play most MMO's on a 56k modem, but you really need a 128k connection or better.

Second, if you check out http://www.dslreports.com/ you'll find that the average broadband download speed is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.8Mbps: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A...-38Mbps-107992

What you will have trouble researching is the average upload speed, which affects your game just as much as the download speed. Most residential cable and DSL setups are asynchronous, meaning you have a much lower upload speed compared to your download speed. Most Cable providers limit the upload speed on 3meg/4meg accounts to around 512kbps, which is one of the reasons MMO developers really can't press required usage speeds that far.

In my own case, my Internet Service provider's current plan is a 12Mbps download. I can sustain about a 10Mbps download speed, but my average upload is only 1.8Mbps.

Thanks Je Saist (what's in a name )

So if my download is at 20Mbps but my upload is at 2Mbps I can forget it right ?

Heck, you can play CoH/V on a 28.8k dial-up connection. I did so for years. (Not that I'd particularly recommend doing so if you can avoid it.)

I regularly use my iPhones 3g connection to play, It's actually more reliable and less likely to lag out than my friends AT&T Uverse connection. OP You'll be more than fine on your connection.

Now, if you're trying to use satellite where your connection gives you a big fat finger whenever the sky even thinks about raining... that's another story.

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone on dial-up these days. There are just too many things that will push past the download cap for dial-up, even when solo. If you want to be able to do everything in this game, a connection that will reliably give you over about 200 kilobits per second down and 8 kilobits per second up will probably be fine, though upload can go higher when you fiddle with window colors and other UI elements.

There are several things you can disable to reduce the traffic and make the game playable over 56K. The most important is to enable "Hide Buff Numbers" in 3 places near the bottom of the settings. If that's not enough, removing channels such as Damage Received and To Hit Rolls from your chat tabs will reduce the traffic a little bit more. Hiding buffs completely from the settings will reclaim a little more bandwidth.

I can play this game with few problems and my connection is nothing short of disgraceful. I'm paying for a 4Mb connection. The lines themselves can only handle 3Mb and I live right on the edge of my exchange radius. My average download speed is 128kbps, whereas my upload is 350kbps

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