Internet Gaming question...

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Ok so now I have AT&T DSL highspeed (it actually is pretty fast too!) so I was wondering does it work well with online games for Half-Life or HL2? I was just wondering it's been a long time since I've played them and didn't wanna sit through all the time setting it up to have it not work again :/ thx

since you havent posted a *bump* I'll asume you've already discovered that yes, you can play. Heck, even a 256 line works.

Well I just posted the question Anyway I was only wondering b/c I play shooters online and if I can't keep up with my enemies then I'm gonna lose and die... ALOT! :/

Problem is you're too vague/non technical, your post doesn't tell me much. Most internet providers should be fine, the real issue with first person shooters like half life is latency (round trip time of packets sent through different routers on the way to the game servers and back).

If you feel so inclined, check the ping times to different sites (even places like yahoo or google) type "cmd" in windows run, and then when the "black screen" comes up known as the command prompt type

ping yahoo.com
ping website.com

and if you want a more detailed ping (seeing how many routers (hops) the packet is being passed through you can use tracert) like this:

tracert google.com

You can also use address, or use a program like pingplotter, the thing you want is small MS or if not small latency, STABLE latency (doesn't fluctuate up and down too much)

http://www.pingplotter.com/

Your internet service provider usually won't matter it's the amount of hops between you and the servers you want to play on. You need to learn a little bit about IP addresses. Google around. Also I'm here to ask questions if need be, just PM me.

Also ask around the STEAM forums to get answers

http://store.steampowered.com/

Visit www.speedtest.net for a visual graph and numbers.

it's working just fine so far only the net cuts off (nothing with the gaming really just kicks me off)