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Old Man Mike
post 03/03/07 3:50pm
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Today's congested networks and poor routing have started to dampen competitive gaming because of the high ping/latency. Consider what is possible based on the simple physics of light travel:

Light travels aprox 8ms/1000 miles in fiberoptic cable (Internet's backbone medium)

Round trip distance from Chicago to Dallas = 1600 miles
Minimum possible ping = 15 ms.

Round trip distance from Chicago to UK = 8000 miles
Minimum possible ping = 64 ms.

Even adding 10 to 15 ms to get out of the local client & server area, this would be quite an improvement.

To get much closer to these numbers, a new service is being started:

http://www.gamerail.com/index.php?family=M...plePage,details

Could be interesting.


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post 03/03/07 5:03pm
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I wish my ping was 64...its always dounble that ,and a bit more. cussing.gif


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post 03/04/07 4:21pm
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QUOTE(Cross of Iron @ 03/03/07 10:03pm) *

I wish my ping was 64...its always dounble that ,and a bit more. cussing.gif


Me too! sad.gif cussing.gif
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post 03/04/07 6:00pm
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Did anyone sign up for the beta version of this yet?? Looks very interesting. I wonder how it will affect you if you have a router?

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post 03/04/07 6:46pm
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I signed up on the website, 6pak. Though, I think by signing up you just get put in a lottery for people who may be used to beta test.

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