I am on a cable connection (measured speed: equivalent to a DS-2 connection), and MP has significantly improved for me. Â I used to average pings of about 180-400 ms, and I now average between 35-180 ms (this is using Sockets). Â I have seen a definite decrease in lag and latency problems, faster loading time on the server in all areas (team selection, briefing, game start, etc.) and this is especially noticeable when I am piloting/driving a vehicle. Â It all has run great for me. Â I miss the built-in voice comms though.
The only bad thing I have really noticed, is that the servers seem to crash quite often.
Yes, I voted above.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a 933MHz Pentium III with 384MB RAM and a 64MB GeForce3 Ti200...internet connection is cable routed through a NAT server and into my 200mbit in-home network.
I have no problems connecting. Â I haven't tried hosting a game to the outside of my internal network...but if I did, the OFP server program would be installed on my internet/web server anyways, which is outside the NAT server.