Please Help ... Is My Internet Connection Speed Fast Enough?

Hello all. I'm a US service member (USAF) stationed overseas in
Turkey. My cablenet provider costs me upwards of $45/month for 64KB
service; price goes to $90/month for 128K service (I can't justify
doing this). I've been crawling all over the web trying to find the
definition of a "high-speed ISP" according to XBox Live advertising,
but I can't find anything. My question: can I get into XBox Live
with this 64K connection that doesn't appear to run that fast all the
time? Thanks for your time...

Rich
(Please don't reply via e-mail ... dead address)

Rich,

See
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/connect/providers.htm
and
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/connect/providers.htm
and finally give the Xbox Support team a call. The number is on the web
site.

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"Rich" <rseifertweb@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:75639161.0401172338.6f3222c2@posting.google.c om...
> Hello all. I'm a US service member (USAF) stationed overseas in
> Turkey. My cablenet provider costs me upwards of $45/month for 64KB
> service; price goes to $90/month for 128K service (I can't justify
> doing this). I've been crawling all over the web trying to find the
> definition of a "high-speed ISP" according to XBox Live advertising,
> but I can't find anything. My question: can I get into XBox Live
> with this 64K connection that doesn't appear to run that fast all the
> time? Thanks for your time...
>
> Rich
> (Please don't reply via e-mail ... dead address)

I have ISDN running at 64K, and whilst it's easily fast enough to play
Project Gotham Racing, it can't seem to handle shooters such as Ghost
Recon. In short, try to use a free trial offer of some sort (2 months
free with PGR2) to see which games will and won't work at your data
rate.

I have a 96k cable connection and once tried a 64k connection and live works
on both of them. Live does not run perfectly but its ok to me. By the way
I'm in South America (Ecuador) and connections may say they are 96k but they
are a lot slower in reality.

Try the 2 month free trial, see if you provider, modem and game play work
You got nothing to loose.


"Chris Smowton" <smowtonchris@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b8c61fbd.0401181123.7affb4d7@posting.google.c om...
> I have ISDN running at 64K, and whilst it's easily fast enough to play
> Project Gotham Racing, it can't seem to handle shooters such as Ghost
> Recon. In short, try to use a free trial offer of some sort (2 months
> free with PGR2) to see which games will and won't work at your data
> rate.

Gentlemen, thanks for the replies ... Regards, Rich

rseifertweb@earthlink.net (Rich) wrote in message news:<75639161.0401172338.6f3222c2@posting.google. com>...
> Hello all. I'm a US service member (USAF) stationed overseas in
> Turkey. My cablenet provider costs me upwards of $45/month for 64KB
> service; price goes to $90/month for 128K service (I can't justify
> doing this). I've been crawling all over the web trying to find the
> definition of a "high-speed ISP" according to XBox Live advertising,
> but I can't find anything. My question: can I get into XBox Live
> with this 64K connection that doesn't appear to run that fast all the
> time? Thanks for your time...
>
> Rich
> (Please don't reply via e-mail ... dead address)