Nyarlathotep Posted January 11, 2003 Posted January 11, 2003 I can understand that things are confusing. Let me ask you guys a question:How do you explain the fact that most users don't suffer the lag some are experiencing ?
DukeLeto Posted January 11, 2003 Author Posted January 11, 2003 Out of curiousity, is the dial up provider the same as the cable/dsl one ?Yes, but tehy're provided by different people. They're both called Earthlink, but the dial-up was provided by Volaris OnLine, and cable by Time Warner.
slim Posted January 11, 2003 Posted January 11, 2003 I read your info Nyar and I have to sympathsize with Leto's confusion.I don't care if my provider is next to my house, if I'm using a phone line thats 20 years old and can only send or recieve 10kbps when the game wants 17kbps there will be lag/slowerplay/whateveryouwanttocallit. The same doesn't happen with cable, unless theres alot of ppl on the same port at once as you pointed out. When I talk about connection speed I naturally refer to the bottleneck, which in my experience is almost allways the phone line quality. Maybe leto was referring to his phone line but saying his 56K modem??FWHsure it could be that the packages are to big ! but that what he wrote is for games where the packages arnt bigger than 56k modem can handle !
Nyarlathotep Posted January 11, 2003 Posted January 11, 2003 Yes, but tehy're provided by different people. They're both called Earthlink, but the dial-up was provided by Volaris OnLine, and cable by Time Warner.Like said, you can't draw conclusions towards equipment, when you actually changed provider. Apart from that, the different equipment in your providers network (with the same provider concerning dial up and cable/dsl) is huge.
DukeLeto Posted January 11, 2003 Author Posted January 11, 2003 Ok. I think I'm beginning to understand.OK, I close with this: Please, everyone, do what you can to improve latency/lag (turn graphics settings down, etc.), especially in QM!
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