Distance from main frame

[W7LPNRICK]

Does my/our physical distance from the main frame of HTC heavily effect performance....ie: if HTC had a game center in Nevada and One in West Virginia only as an example, would this improve game performance for those who would now be closer to a game Main Frame, or simply cut the number of players in half & screw everything up for everyone. Seems to me, as a lay person, that the lag time between east & west coast is quite great? This question has nothing to do with me recent computer hacker attack/Trojan Virus, although my PC is a bit screwed up right now. 

[LLogann]

Read this:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,68316.0.html

[OOZ662]

Your connection is quite literally electrons flowing through copper wire. Sometimes photons running through a glass filament. So, naturally, that would take some time longer to go longer distances. Add in that, the further you are, the more likely you'll have to pass through more routers and switching centers, each adding their own processing time into it. If you're accross an ocean, you're either running through something like the TransAtlantic Cable or up to a satellite and back, further delaying things.

So, yes.

[Bizman]

The distance between Boise and Grapevine adds to some 20 milliseconds to your latency. Think about us here at the other side of the Atlantic, adding 1 millisecond for every 100 km/62 miles. IMHO you should consider your connections as platinum. If you have problems with your connections, it's not because of the distance. 

[mensa180]

Your connection is quite literally electrons flowing through copper wire. Sometimes photons running through a glass filament. So, naturally, that would take some time longer to go longer distances. Add in that, the further you are, the more likely you'll have to pass through more routers and switching centers, each adding their own processing time into it. If you're accross an ocean, you're either running through something like the TransAtlantic Cable or up to a satellite and back, further delaying things.

So, yes.

Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.

[Vulcan]

Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.

[LLogann]

And the speed of light has to do with this conversation how?    I'm so confused.

Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.

And just a quick note...... Light speed has a speed limit.  It does not teleport instantaneously.  And, I'll go you one even further..... In the vacuum of space, light reaches it's top speed.

[OOZ662]

Yeah but light doesn't have a speed limit, so it gets there instantly, this is also why nothing can go faster than light.

Um...ever heard of E=MC^2? C=Speed of Light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 meters-per-second. So light does have a "speed limit," it's just a rather high one that, according to current widely accepted rules of physics, nothing can exceed. As a side note, I believe physicists have succeeded in bringing light to a stop.

And the speed of light has to do with this conversation how?     I'm so confused.

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Sometimes photons running through a glass filament.

[Bear76]

Um...ever heard of E=MC^2? C=Speed of Light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 meters-per-second. So light does have a "speed limit," it's just a rather high one that, according to current widely accepted rules of physics, nothing can exceed.
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The OH school system works

[Vulcan]

How can photon's run if they don't have legs?

[mensa180]

LOL, nice try guys.  Try getting a flashlight and pointing it at the wall next to you, just TRY to measure how fast it takes light to get there... You can't, it's instant.

[fudgums]

LOL, nice try guys.  Try getting a flashlight and pointing it at the wall next to you, just TRY to measure how fast it takes light to get there... You can't, it's instant.

hold on,let me grab a ruler.

[Vulcan]

LOL, nice try guys.  Try getting a flashlight and pointing it at the wall next to you, just TRY to measure how fast it takes light to get there... You can't, it's instant.

I think I can do this, ma said I was good at fysiks and running at skool.

[OOZ662]

The OH school system works

I wouldn't know.

[LLogann]

Again..... You're wrong.  And not just by a little, by leaps and bounds.  Let me ask you this boy......  Is light, a wave, or is it matter?

LOL, nice try guys.  Try getting a flashlight and pointing it at the wall next to you, just TRY to measure how fast it takes light to get there... You can't, it's instant.