Hi,

We’re looking at moving to the Alicante region next year and are doing our research.  One of the things that’s popped up is the quality of internet gaming, and ping times, back to the UK from the Alicante region.  Both myself and my son play, so it’s something we’re both interested in

Does anyone have any knowledge, or is willing to help do a simple ping test, so we can get a general idea of the quality?  If you are in the Alicante region and game can you let us know what ping times you see and what the broadband quality is like?  We’re not after that much speed (4 of us share a 2MB connection at the moment) but the line quality and ping time are important.

Thanks,

Paul.

Hey Paul

I am on a 1mb ADSL with telefonica (was 3mb before i moved) and get a decent ping. To some UK servers i get about 80 - 100 but can flucuate at times, spanish servers much better as too are german ones I have been on.
Even though the system over here is still well behind UK and alot of Europe it has improved alot lately and Telefonica are upgrading alot of areas to 6mb. There are some companies to watch out for as they block a number of ports which they claim is to stop downloading, fair enough, but friend of mine was not able to play online gaming for 2 weeks after they blocked that.

Dave

Thanks a lot for that Dave, that’s exactly the kind of info I was looking for.  Where we are now I’m lucky to get a 140 ping to a UK server, so anything under 100 will be great.

Is there any kind of gaming fraternity in the Alicante region?  Things like LAN parties or other activities?

PaulJ - 06 January 2009 11:35 AM

Thanks a lot for that Dave, that’s exactly the kind of info I was looking for.  Where we are now I’m lucky to get a 140 ping to a UK server, so anything under 100 will be great.

Is there any kind of gaming fraternity in the Alicante region?  Things like LAN parties or other activities?

Hi Paul,

I have not heard of anything like that over here, not sure how popular it is over here as I knew quite a few people that used to travel over for the UK LAN events when I was in UK.

Dave