On 3/6/11 7:09 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
Justin and all ~
My son has been playing with three of his friends online with one of
the friends setting
up his PC as a server. We're on the edge of my knowledge base here,
have never set
up a Mac as a server. But maybe the gameplay lags have to do not only
with our
setup but with the friend's setup, connection speed, etc. as well?
We'll run all this stuff and then perhaps up the RAM. Looks dead
easy to do and the RAM seems cheap for the moment - Crucial
has sticks for $35.
I did google connection speeds and got a couple results - seems generally
the download is 5mbps and the upload is 1mbps. We can't afford the
next package up, in fact I'm going to have to downgrade something as
the bills are too much for the income ...
Game play lags can be any one of these which you mentioned, as well as a
combination of any or all of them. Ran a Quake server in my classroom
for a couple of years on a closed 100Mbps network with a managed HP Pro
Curve switch and 4 machines and we still had occasional lags. If you
find a way to eliminate them completely let me know. Now, if your son
and his friends are not in the same location and on the same switch,
then you have all the networks in between to add into the equation.
Good luck.
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