Connection speed question....?

Question

I'm playing Treasure Hunter on QQ-Games and I right-clicked my friend's picture and it says Test Connection Speed, so I did. It says she has a connection speed of 421 milliseconds. Is that good or bad?

The lower it is, the better? or is it the opposite?

Answer 1

if it shows the connection in terms of time then its better when LOWER.

Answer 2

"Your broadband connection is like a pipe" -- The analogy that works for most people is comparing your Internet connection to a pipe. Given a pipe of a certain size, only a certain amount of things can flow through it at once.  

Download speed is how fast information from the Internet can be transmitted to your computer, or, how fast a Web page displays in your Web browser. Another example is downloading a piece of software or a software update (e.g. Windows Updates). In typical residential broadband connections, your download speed is several times faster than your upload speed.

Upload speed is how fast information can travel from your computer to other computers on the Internet. If you've ever uploaded pictures to a Web site then you've successfully tested your upload speed -- which is usually quite a bit slower than your download speed.

To continue the pipe analogy, your pipe to the Internet is shared with your neighbors, so if many of them are busy surfing the Web, they're filling up your shared pipe, potentially leaving you with less room to fill the pipe on your own -- i.e. less bandwidth for you. Cable broadband connections usually have no guaranteed lower limit (they won't promise that your speed won't drop below some threshold).

A DSL broadband connection to the Internet is a pipe of a fixed size directly to the Internet, not shared with anyone else. DSL broadband connections also offer a range of speeds, but the speeds they generally offer are fixed and mostly guaranteed because you're not sharing any bandwidth with your neighbors. As noted above, cable connections are usually potentially faster than DSL connections, but they're also potentially slower at times.

Answer 3

Thats not very good. Lower is better, but for that type of game it really isn't a big deal. Ideal speed would be below 150 ms