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Originally Posted by winbig
Are you and your dad in the same neighborhood and using the same provider by chance?
The thing is, you may not notice an increase in speed for these tournaments if you guys live in different neighborhoods. Hopefully this works for you, but it's quite possible that there aren't as many people using the same Cable provider in your dad's neighborhood.
What happens with Cable connections is that when there are a lot of people in the same neighborhood using the same provider, things tend to get slow. Unlike DSL, Cable users share the bandwidth allocated to that specific area. At least with DSL, you only have to worry about distance and line noise.
If you REALLY wanted to be safe and have guaranteed speed, I would strongly suggest looking into a pure fiber connection. Those are lines dedicated to you, as well. I know here in the States on the east coast, Verizon offers Fiber connections (FIOS), and it's relatively inexpensive. It's around $50/month, for like 5mb/2mb, which is MORE than enough, because unlike Cable and DSL, Fiber connections are NOT Asynchronous. This basically means that if you're downloading at max bandwidth it will NOT affect your upload speed at all and vise versa.
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Oh I see... I live in different area than my dad and I think the Internet traffic is much higher here (student campus). Oh well, if this doesn't work I will downgrade my connection back to where it was. And of course these tournaments are not the only use I have for faster connection
EDIT: But certainly if I pay for 10Mbit connection it has to be faster than 2Mbit right? How is the bandwith shared between me and other households who use basic 2Mbit connection?