WOW players please come inside

[junior]

so im going to start playing wow, and tried to get sbc but my mom is tripping since ill have to change the house phone number.
so looks like i cant get broadband or dsl, at least till i convince them.
so i guess im going to try with dial up, just wanted to know if anyone has tried it with dial-up and is it even worth a try

ill be using people pc

[Lason]

good luck, I got 3 meg dsl and even mine starts lagging a bit when I go into highly populated places.

[Roliath]

[QUOTE=junior]so im going to start playing wow, and tried to get sbc but my mom is tripping since ill have to change the house phone number.
so looks like i cant get broadband or dsl, at least till i convince them.
so i guess im going to try with dial up, just wanted to know if anyone has tried it with dial-up and is it even worth a try

ill be using people pc[/QUOTE]
Why can't you just go with comcast?
I have comcast and I don't even have a house phone.

[Richie064]

or go with cable ftw!

ahh so close to 60 ! lvl 54 night elf rogue on archimonde RAWR! someone come play with me in western plaguelands!?!?

[DarkWolf]

I played for a good 4-5 months with dial-up, both on WoW and FFXI. There was lag, but it wasn't too terrible. Never had any problems with parties. Crowded cities were pretty bad though.

[junior]

cable is $60 a month since i have no cable

ill try dial-up i guess,

hey when i get on, can someone help me level up!?

IM GOING TO BE IN THE ALLIANCE AS A WARRIOR

[jakesford]

damn we got charter cable internet for $29 a month without having cable tv...

[Neiladin]

[QUOTE=Lason]good luck, I got 3 meg dsl and even mine starts lagging a bit when I go into highly populated places.[/QUOTE]
thats your computer lagging, not your connection.

[jakesford]

[QUOTE=Neiladin]thats your computer lagging, not your connection.[/QUOTE]

yeah wow = 1 gig of ram at the minimum

[Neiladin]

[QUOTE=jakesford]yeah wow = 1 gig of ram at the minimum[/QUOTE]
ive got one gig and every time i walk into orgrimar, specially the auction house, i notcie a slight jerkyness, but other than that its perfect.

[Hunt4m3x]

Hrm. When I had comcast, I have low 45~ pings with packetloss. Then I get banned from comcast for downloading way too much (500 gigs in 2~ weeks) When we got dsl, Id play battlefield with 30~ ping with no packetloss. Plus everything surfed ALOT faster, NO down at all either. Plus the bill was cut in half but so was the download speed but I can live with that.

[Lason]

[QUOTE=Neiladin]thats your computer lagging, not your connection.[/QUOTE]

doubt it is my computer, Im currently running 1.5 gigs of Mushkin ram and a Radeon X800 pro 256mb card. I was talking about this to one of my buddies up here who plays WoW and he said he tried dialup and it was decent but he couldnt go into any highly populated place without it booting him.

[DarkWolf]

Yeah, whenever I'd hearth back to Org, I'd get booted while on dialup.

The high pop lag is definitely not based on the computer (unless you've got a way low-end computer). I get some chop in Orgrimmar while people are being downloaded from the server, whether I play on my 1.6GHz/1.2Gig ram/GeForce 6800 laptop, or my 3GHz/1Gig ram/Radeon 9600XT desktop. Even turning all graphics down as far as I can, and lowering resolution.

I typically play on both systems with graphics up all the way (except for full screen glow), and 1280x1024 (desktop) or 1280x800 (laptop), and it stays pretty solid at 50 - 60 fps, regardless of location. Occasionally I'll bump up to 1600x1200/1920x1200 for shits and giggles, and it's pretty consistent at 30 - 40 fps regardless of location.

[junior]

so i finally started playing last night, and no lag at all, did freaking great, i was amazed, although i did have to go to a buddies house to get all my patch updates and played on his comp(broadband) and went home and figured it would be horrible and to my surprise it wasnt bad at all :cool:


<-- level 7 :o

[Richie064]

on what server?? i got a lvl 12 orc on mannoroth and on archimonde i have a 14 gnome mage and a 54 nightelf rogue.

[Stang2be]

I started the 10 day trial and I've got a lvl 9 undead priest on shadow something server.

[junior]

i dont remember the realm
but my name is poni and part of the blood moon knights guild

<--lvl 10