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Title: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 25, 2022, 12:25:10 PM
Just did a speed test

16.2

Mbps download

1.39

Mbps upload

That's about as good as it gets out here in the sticks.  Can I expect spotty game play or should that be sufficient?

Ya ya I know there are other factors that enter into it I just want to know if the game SHOULD play smoothly on that?
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 25, 2022, 12:55:55 PM
It's your ping time that matters. Under 300 is still good I believe.

You can open a command prompt in administrative tools and ping hitechcreations.com .
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 25, 2022, 05:55:12 PM
Pinging hitechcreations.com [199.101.50.180] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 199.101.50.180: bytes=32 time=1083ms TTL=242
Reply from 199.101.50.180: bytes=32 time=580ms TTL=242
Reply from 199.101.50.180: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=242
Reply from 199.101.50.180: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=242

UGH   :bhead

or wait.. is that okay?
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 25, 2022, 07:27:48 PM
You can get pingplotter. It's a free program download that will give you more detail. If you average 80ms that's great.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: The Fugitive on May 25, 2022, 08:01:48 PM
What your looking for is a consistent ping under 200. When you get pingplotter set it up to ping HTC, and let it run a while a couple minutes at least to get a good sample. The averages will settle and you'll be able to get a good read.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 25, 2022, 08:55:57 PM
thanks gents.  Toddling off to bed in 4 mins but I'll check pingplotter out.  I'm seriously considering running a dedicated line just to my rig when I get it.  My entire focus is getting back into the unfriendly skies :)
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: fuzeman on May 26, 2022, 08:25:28 AM
Why ping hitechcreation.com??

Axis vs Allies, Melee, Special Events 1, Training, World War I: 71.252.137.153
Lobby, Special Events 2: 71.252.137.154
Custom Arenas: 71.252.137.155
Dueling, Missions: 71.252.137.158

if those are up to date. Stability over speed every day of the week.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 26, 2022, 09:06:24 AM
Been running it on hitechcreations since about 6 am so far.  running an avg of 72.9

That said I also use THIS system for work so I always have Chrome (ick but that's what work demands) etc running in the background so after i get off work today I'm shutting everything down, firing up AH, and doing a pingplot on all the addresses you mentioned and see where I'm at.  I'm in process of getting a gaming rig by, hopefully, end of Sept plus all my gear so I'm doing my up front homework now.  I'm honestly thinking about just getting a dedicated isp strictly for gaming that has NOTHING else on it. 
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Drano on May 26, 2022, 09:59:42 AM
I think the same rules apply today that applied back in the day when we all played on dial up. It's more about the quality and consistency of your connection than the speed. If you bring up your netstat on the clipboard and you're seeing a lot of spikey erratic behavior in varience that will translate to spikey erratic stuff happening in the game. That's what you see and how others see you.

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Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 26, 2022, 01:34:30 PM
Been running it on hitechcreations since about 6 am so far.  running an avg of 72.9
...

If you want to test the arenas you only need to do one. 71.252.137.153   I doubt you'll see a different result.

If you're sharing a connection with family, that may cause issues if they stream movies or DL large files.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 26, 2022, 05:10:34 PM
ya so I noticed.  I was running a nice slightly below average of 80 all day.  When the rents woke up and got on their computers the numbers were.. well you don't want to know what the numbers were.  The good news is they'll be asleep again in an hour. 

And yes I moved in with them because they didn't want to have to worry about assisted living so I'm here to do the heavy lifting, grocery shopping, taking them to the doc when they need it, cooking meals, and so on.  I figured they did so much for me over the years a few years of little to no privacy was a small sacrifice to make. 

Edit now that's odd.  When I ping hitechcreations.com now that the rents are in bed I'm getting a pretty good average of 65 to 68 but when I try it on the addresses you guys provided I'm getting 100% pl
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 26, 2022, 07:04:31 PM
The arena IP is where you'll be flying. Pingplotter can give you details or you can run "tracert 71.252.137.153" from a command prompt. You also want a wired connection to the router, not wireless.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 26, 2022, 08:01:09 PM
she be wired and all I got was request timed out.  Now this is getting baffling. 

I'm wondering if ESET isn't blocking the arenas.  I'll check that tomorrow. 

Thanks for all the help guys  :salute
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Eagler on May 27, 2022, 06:15:09 AM
I use NOD32 and have no issues

Eagler
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 27, 2022, 06:10:09 PM
Same.  I'm a bit baffled and today work was a brain diddlyer so I'm just going to chill and see if I can figure this out tomorrow but I do appreciate all the help. 
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: AKDogg on May 28, 2022, 02:37:59 PM
Why ping hitechcreation.com??

Axis vs Allies, Melee, Special Events 1, Training, World War I: 71.252.137.153
Lobby, Special Events 2: 71.252.137.154
Custom Arenas: 71.252.137.155
Dueling, Missions: 71.252.137.158

if those are up to date. Stability over speed every day of the week.

The IP addresses have changed.

Melee is now 47.190.53.220
Didn't look to see what the other IP address's are yet.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 28, 2022, 02:56:45 PM
Good catch. I didn't check the current IPs. That will likely fix it.  :aok
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 29, 2022, 07:57:36 AM
The IP addresses have changed.

Melee is now 47.190.53.220
Didn't look to see what the other IP address's are yet.

Ya that one is working.  I'm going to let it run for a bit and see where we're at

Edit: VERY interesting.  I was running avg around 21 to 24, Min 18 to 19.  But then the rents got up and turned on their machines.  For about 20 minutes it jumped up to avg over 400 then dropped back down.  Thoughts?

PS anybody got the ip's for the other arenas?
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: FLS on May 29, 2022, 11:43:52 AM
Sounds like you're all set.

The arenas are all at the same physical location so the pings should be similar.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on May 29, 2022, 03:51:36 PM
 :aok :aok
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: AKDogg on May 30, 2022, 01:48:20 PM
Well, there are only 2 IP address's.

47.190.53.219  H2H,SEA II, Steal the sheep, WWI, Match play and Short Missions.

47.190.53.220  Melee, AVA, SEA I, WWI: Western Front and Training Arena
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: fuzeman on June 01, 2022, 08:24:24 AM
Well, there are only 2 IP address's.

47.190.53.219  H2H,SEA II, Steal the sheep, WWI, Match play and Short Missions.

47.190.53.220  Melee, AVA, SEA I, WWI: Western Front and Training Arena

Sure would be nice if they were listed in the area where we generally look for them.
Good thing I added ‘if they are up to date’ .
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: AKDogg on June 01, 2022, 11:00:31 AM
When you start up the game and just highlight the arena, click on ping details.  It shows the ip address for that arena.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: nopoop on June 02, 2022, 12:13:11 PM
I was surprised that running wifi I get a solid 60.
Title: Re: Been a long time guys and I've forgotten a few things
Post by: Dichotomy on June 03, 2022, 04:54:59 AM
I got concerned when INK visited a while back so I dusted off my twisty and he flew for a bit after I crashed.  Said he had some warping issues so i wanted to be absolutely sure my isp was solid for gameplay

Thanks gentlemen :)