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

[Starlord]

Local Area Connection Status: 100 Mbps ( Check) ( Yeah I just checked lol)
Cable type ( Fiber Optic) X >.<

[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.

[mysterytaru]

To anyone who put anything other that "I want to make A Realm Reborn better" as their reason: this Alpha probably isn't for you.

[Fear]

Go my Nvidia Geforce GTX 660ti! Go! Show these gamers what a powerhouse you are on my 3rd gen intel core i7 2600k and Direct X 11 Capabilities!!

Sorry to burst your bubble but the i7 2600k is 2nd gen Intel not 3rd, Ivy bridge is 3rd gen, Sandy bridge is 2nd gen.

On that note though my OC'd 7950HD and i5 2500k are ready.

[Delsus]

For the 100Mbps fiber recommend requirement that's really to cover themselves if they say recommend 25Mbps ADSL people with 100Mbps fiber would complain at every disconnect, also there should be 0 server lag (except what you would expect over the internet) any broadband connection should be fine.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

[Fear]

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

Even 2 Mbps is overkill, the game only sends/recieves like 5-20 bytes a second so dialup is capable tbh