Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Alpha test now accepting applications

[Grey_Cain]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

[Jennestia]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

Sadly, NA (and EU too probably) are still lower in average speed compared to some other countries, like Japan -- chances are they just C/P all the info between languages, since iirc the average is about 45Mbps in the US, people have faster plans but a lot have significantly less.

100Mbps is just likely to state you need a good solid connection.

[Skies]

Sadly, NA (and EU too probably) are still lower in average speed compared to some other countries, like Japan -- chances are they just C/P all the info between languages, since iirc the average is about 45Mbps in the US, people have faster plans but a lot have significantly less.

100Mbps is just likely to state you need a good solid connection.

... Oh god
Oh good god, really? Really?
Now I feel awful, the best plans in brazil cap at 10 MBps

[Grey_Cain]

... Oh god
Oh good god, really? Really?
Now I feel awful, the best plans in brazil cap at 10 MBps

Hoo, ouch! That hurts. >_< My condolences.

I can at least get up to 100 Mbps where I am if I switch to cable and pay $150/month.

[Faiyez]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

Don't be ridiculous. The recommended specs are stupid and misleading and can only lead to confusions like what you have. For starters, no online game ever (except cloud games) should take you more than 1.5 Mbps 512k upload of your bandwidth for gameplay.

Provided you are not planning to play the alpha on a dialup connection, your experience in the game will not improve just because you have fiber optics.

[Laraul]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

You don't need this for the game... why are they even asking this?

[Grey_Cain]

You don't need this for the game... why are they even asking this?

I was just joking about how their specs jump from 1.5 Mbps minimum to 100 Mbps recommended.

Really though, I think the recommended stuff is probably what you need to have everything loaded max graphics settings with no slowdown or stuttering (well, even that's probably optimistic since the network connection is the only super-high recommendation).

But a steady 1.5 Mbps connection that maintains a strong data stream can outdo a 100 Mbps connection that drops packages frequently. I used to have the issue that if my roommate was running torrents I wasn't able to stream video because it cut out so much, and the fix was in the settings, not the connection speed.

[indira]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

[Jennestia]

no matter what your speed is SE servers are only going to average out there connection so you will be getting way lower connection to the game. were talking like 10-100kbps

You sure about that number?

[indira]

You sure about that number?

uploading pic.

30Mbps cable connection
one hour of FFXIV running around. green is the in & out yellow are packets
youtube is the spike on the right.