 GameRail, Say goodbye to High Ping/Latency |
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| Old Man Mike |
 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. Old Man Mike |
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| Cross of Iron |
03/03/07 5:03pm
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 Major General Group: {MOB} Posts: 2515 Joined: January 5th 2006 From: Windsor Canada Member No.: 1518 |
I wish my ping was 64...its always dounble that ,and a bit more.
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| Tarkus |
03/04/07 4:21pm
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Sergeant Major  Group: {MOB} Regs Posts: 101 Joined: July 29th 2005 From: United Kingdom Member No.: 1275 |
QUOTE(Cross of Iron @ 03/03/07 10:03pm)  I wish my ping was 64...its always dounble that ,and a bit more. Me too!  |
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| T/A6Pak |
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?
T/A6Pak --------------------  Signature designed by Old Man Mike Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.  |
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| Rush |
03/04/07 6:46pm
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 Major Group: {MOB} Posts: 477 Joined: March 22nd 2006 Member No.: 1654 Xfire: savethebird |
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.
This post has been edited by Rush: 03/04/07 6:47pm --------------------  courtesy of harrycaray |
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