dial upFollow

i did 5 yrs ago lost conection died a lot gave up playing for 2 yrs till i got cable

too much of a risk to play eq a loose connection other first person shooters are ok but not a game that takes hours to lvl and you loose exp if u die

I played EQ on a dial-up for years. Played a bard using a 56k connection and, aside from zone times, had no problems with it that broadband would have fixed. Heck, I spent a period playing at 28k and had hella-long zone times but no issues playing once I was in the zone.

Patching, of course, is something to do while watching television.

i have played most of my eq career on dialup. I used national companies like AOL and Earthlink and had the same problem of disconnects ever 4 hours or so. I expected them, so i knew not to be fighting at that time or if i was in group to tell others in group that i would be disconnected and would be back.

But other than that. I never had much of a problem. Sure load zone times were slow, and a whole sh** load of lag in POK, but logging into characters was longer. Now that I am on cable, zoning is like walking into one room from another and no lag at all.

I had good luck with dialup on EQ. The max i would connect was 28.8. I had sound turned off, no spell lights 800 X 600 spell particles off. I used the local phone company isp bellsouth very stable. Make sure you turn off all the advanced display stuff now.

The problems from dialup are killer updates and your spouse ready to kill you to use the phone.

Make sure you have enough memory good cpu and video card.

good luck

I started in Dec '99 using dial-up, and in '01 got cable service that eventually expanded to provide in excess of 7Mb bandwidth. Over a year ago I moved...to the country...with zero broadband. I average 24k, and a very good & rare day I can get 32k. I quit eq.

During a recent business trip (and after many, many conversations with friends still gaming) I dusted off my account. When i got home I tried it out, and have gamed about 10 sessions in just over two weeks.

Downloading patches is murder. I would pay double subscription fee to have Sony mail me DVD's of the patch files instead of 7hr patches. The delay from clicking the EQ icon until you can hit "play" is about 4 minutes. Zoning takes 30-45 seconds. But - the game runs great & smooth. I run full effects, everything maxed, all models on & 1248x1024 graphics and aside from loading/zoning there is only barely discernable lag compared to broadband.

Today in fact I played about 5 hours and my connection to bellsouth ISP was 22k.