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Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Gloves on January 27, 2003, 12:04:25 PM

I'm getting pings from 300 to 400 thingamabobs per unit of measure.  I'm just curious if this is good or not.  Works okay for me, but was wondering where performance becomes an issue.

Gloves

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Skuzzy on January 27, 2003, 01:51:59 PM

Above 300, things may get problematic, especially when close to another plane.

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Gloves on January 27, 2003, 02:02:40 PM

Is there anyway I can improve on this?
 
Thanks for the response Skuzzy.

Gloves

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Skuzzy on January 27, 2003, 02:10:27 PM

What kind of Internet connection do you have?

If it is a modem connection;
What kind of modem?

External modems will generally give better results than internal modems.

You might want to post a traceroute to the Internet forum to make sure the bottlenecks are located in a place that can be fixed.

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Gloves on January 27, 2003, 02:51:41 PM

I have a 56k Internal modem, but usually connect at 49k.  Would I use Ping Plotter for the traceroute?
 
Thanks,
Glove

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Skuzzy on January 27, 2003, 03:32:12 PM

Yep gloves.

Gloves,..is that a software based modem (brand, model...)?

You need to limit the speed to 33.6K, so you can get more upstream bandwidth from your computer.

Yes, Pingplot is a good tool to use for traces.  216.91.187.37 is the Main Arena IP Address.

Title: Getting pings from 300 - 400. Is this adequate for gameplay?
Post by: Gloves on January 27, 2003, 03:54:03 PM

Skuzzy,

It's a US Robotics.  Don't know much more than that.  It came with my system from Dell about 3-4 years ago.  How can I tell if it's hardware or software based?
 
Thanks,
Glove