My Proposed New Internet Connection in April 2023

[Arbriel.4397]

Hi all,

 

I just thought I'd start a discussion about how and if any impact my new proposed internet connection from April will have on GW2?

 

In a nutshell this is what it will be:

 

10Gbps XGS-PON access technology will be deployed as standard from April 2023 in partnership with market-leading vendors Calix and Nokia.

The deployment programme enables the introduction of symmetrical broadband services of up to 10Gbps for homes and businesses.

 

You can find out more here:

https://cityfibre.com/news/cityfibre-to-upgrade-all-networks-to-10gbps-xgs-pon-technology

Edited November 30, 2022 by Arbriel.4397
Clarity

[Linken.6345]

It probabely wont change much since it still the full way your connection take to and from Anet server cluster that count.

[costepj.5120]

What speed have you got now? I just upgraded from 200Mbps to 1Gbps and it had zero effect on my GW2 gaming. Above a certain threshold, the network is not a limiting factor. All that extra bandwidth is great for streaming services, but irrelevant for GW2.

[Arbriel.4397]

Yes I agree it won't change much with GW2 itself as that's on Anet/NCSoft.

My current connection is asymmetrical 940Mbps down and 50Mbps up and a different, separate ISP from the one in my OP.

Anet/NCSoft's data centre for GW2 in Europe/GB, among other titles I would assume, iirc is in Hannover, Germany.

Yes, the new connection being full fibre, my current is part fibre/copper, is just over 10x faster on the download side than my current connection and if I am correct 200 x faster than the upload side.

Thanks for your replies.