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Originally Posted by Jufo
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? |
Err, no
It doesn't matter what you PAY for, their area capacity has to be able to cope, otherwise you are paying more for the same service.
MY internet connection has been steadily upgraded from 2 Mbit, through 4 Mbit, and is now 10Mbit (no price rise, just marketing malarkey from Virgin Media).
Does it make any difference, on the whole, NO!!!!
MPV tourneys run no faster at 10Mbit than they did at 2Mbit last year. Web browsing is no faster, the ONLY difference is during SOME downloads from big corporate portals, such as the BBC and Channel 4, who run TV "catch up" services.
The MAXIMUM speed you will EVER get is around 4 seconds per spin, under 100% ideal conditions, which with Microgaming means "probably never"
The MPV software is rigged to abort PCs that run VERY fast through FAST internet connections, and when this "rigging" is activated, you find 5 second delays automatically inserted into each spin before the server will send the result. This is only really noticable with a fast PC during a long sequence of naked spins (so easy to spot if affected
).