Dial-Up Gaming

Are there any good dial-up multiplayer games still alive?

Right now I'm playing Diablo 2.

 

on dial up?

what sort of ping are you getting?

 

lol get Boradband or dsl.
Dsl = 5$ more
Broadband = 10 dollars more

 

I think you must first ask where he lives.
In some places there is no ISP offering DSL and in some places it costs an arm and a leg.

 

From what I understand, WoW is playable on dial-up/

 

its highly unrecomended, i think it usually drops out too often and you ping at about 1000-1500ms.

 

For a while I was playing WoW on dial up, with an intergrated card no less. Yeah it sucks like hell, but it's very doable. I didn't drop at all, and my ping was about 600-700, which is insane when I look at it now but I did it.

 

starcraft :3 hehehe

 

I am stuck with dial up until school starts back in Aug. I've thought about getting a wireless broadband card but I don't know how well it will work with WOW (I had a thread on the forum a few weeks back but never got a straight answer). Therefore I either have to go to my local coffee shop (about 8 min drive) and deal with the terrible smell or play Diablo at home.

So are there any fun dial up multiplayer games or should I try the broadband card?

 

heh, noeffects-man. Funny. Though it's probably NOFX.

 

Satellite DSL Cable

 

i played wow for some time on dial up, and have friends who raided on dialup. It works, but u do need good dialup, i dont know what that is in your area, in ours netzero was a very good connection for a while, and was the only one i tried that i would consider gaming on. actually the other guy i know who plays on dialup will share it with his brother, splitting the connection, both playing at the same time, and will raid like that, they just avoid teamspeak. Wow and guildwars are both very dialup friendly if you can get the patches from someplace else (friend,library,etc.) ive heard city of heroes is a bit more draining (from the friend who splits the dialup for wow)

 

It is my way of showing my respect for Fat Mike and El Hefe.

But back to the topic on hand, is there nobody playing older online games?

 

Much like you, I used to be restricted to dial-up only, but now I am set free. I used to play warcraft 3 frozen throne, world of warcraft, diablo2, starcraft, and sometimes cs 1.6. It all depends on your dial-up, i had Netscape with accelerator and it was really fast for dialup.

 

I live in Canada on a farm in the boonies of Ontario. I have looked into Satellite Internet and DSL, and Satellite is wayy too expensive, and I'm half a KM too far for DSL. My Dial up connects at 26.4 Kb(bits, not bytes) per second. Thats 3 kilobytes. I get an average of 400 ping for diablo, WoW, and Starcraft. Why speed test says 33 Kb is because of compression I guess (see my sig).

Those are without a doubt the only games I can play comfortably at that speed. They run fairly well, though it is impossible to survive on a PvP server in WoW, you lag to sh*t when a level 60 paladin is on your ass . Diablo 2 runs fine, but you can't expect to grab drops quickly, and you can forget about duels. Starcraft just runs great. Most map downloads are small, and it runs smooth with 8 people in game. You can't host 8 player games, but you can definitely join them.

Browsing the internet takes on a whole new experience when your chugging along this slowly. Downloading the latest Virus definitions is a hour long affair (Avira antivirus), and updating drivers usually takes all night to download.

The worst part is websites that have built in video ads, or huge banners for each page on their website etc. The banners in particular take forever to load, and will not show the page until the graphic is downloaded completely. I give great Kudos to NBR for having a skin that has no ads or other frivolous things. It makes loading threads very quick and painless (quick being around 5-10 seconds, to download people's avatars)

To website designers: Phone line is NOT dead! We're still out there! Why do you think so many laptops still have phone line modems in them? When you design your website, don't emulate a 8 year old's myspace page!

/end rant

 

Hear hear.

 

For al Dial-upers, here's a comic about you (from http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/, a very funny comic about gaming and general randomness)

 

I played WoW on satellite internet when I first started, it had between 600-800 ping and I thought it was plenty playable.

I'm not sure what dial-up pings but if it's around that I'm sure you'd be okay.

 

I remember playing the original Halo on dial-up, it was laggy but playable on 56k. With your speed . . . I don't know.

 

like some of the other people said, you can play WoW, blizzard always trys to make their games runnable on everything. I think they did a great job on WoW. my friend currently plays with 56k, you just cant do major raiding where alot of monsters/people are.

 

56k gaming was a big part of my life, because thats all I had. For the longest time since 2001 when I got Medal of Honor Allied Assault I play the hell out of it online. Those were the days when 56k had great ping. When I had 700 to 500 I was really happy, because I mostly get 800 - 900 when I was playing CS. 100 and under was unheard of for me and it was until 2006 when I had high speed internet. Anywho, to answer your question, games like Call of Duty 1, CS 1.6, Mohaa, and a bunch of old games can do 56k. Don't even try FEAR, BF2, COD 2, or any source games for you will get kick out right away...

 

Well I bit the bullet and got a wireless broadband card from Sprint ($60 month). At my house my connection speed is 400-800kbs (Rev A) which is comparable to DSL. So far I've tried multiplayer Fear, Titan Quest, and Diablo 2. My only complaint is that in Fear my ping jumps all over the place so it lags quite a bit (ping 150-800). It usually stays around 300 but once I was actually kicked off a server, I'm assuming because of the lag. Once I try WOW I'll let you know the results but so far it looks as those it should run flawlessly.