# Do broadband users inflict more strain on gaming servers than 56k users?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-broadband-users-inflict-more-strain-on-gaming-servers-than-56k-users/250340 "2004-06-14T19:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sinful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Sinful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinful)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-broadband-users-inflict-more-strain-on-gaming-servers-than-56k-users/250340/1 "2004-06-14T19:50:00Z")

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It’s happened to a alot of us FPS PC gamers - That one player (most likely a 56k user) on the other team who is harder to kill, warps, and just plain laggy.

I know in some cases the server can be blamed for the lagg. But I normally play in offical server with top notch connections.

So do broadband users inflict more strain on a server than 56k, since more info is being uploaded. I heard somewhere that “56kers” do not lag everyone else… they just “lag” themselves. Is this true?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-broadband-users-inflict-more-strain-on-gaming-servers-than-56k-users/250340/2 "2004-06-14T21:10:46Z")

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The slow guy really isn’t slowing the rest of the people down, at least in the games I play.  
That being said though, if his motion is messed up, your ability to kill him _is_ laggy. It’s nearly a philosophical question as to which of you is lagged… sure, you’re in closer synch to the server, but sometimes that’s not your goal.