At 8:09 PM -0500 3/6/2011, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
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?
Exactly. Each "component" in the path contributes to the problem.
I think you have the first component covered - adding some memory to
your computer.
Next up is to take a look at your network connectivity:
About how far is it, geographically, to the home of the friend with the server?
Run this speed test and tell us the result. Have the friends do the
same. This will tell us if you'all have enough basic bandwidth
available to support things.
<http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/>
Run a traceroute and ping test to the server. This will tell us if
the network between you is able to handle your traffic in a timely
fashion (latency). Caveat: To protect themselves from script-kiddies
et al, running denial of service attacks (ping floods), a lot of ISPs
don't allow pings to pass between customers. So these test commands
might not work!
To do this, you'll need to know the public IP address of the server.
Your son probably knows this info already!. In my example, I'm using
an IP "8.8.8.8"; just replace the IP with that of your friend's.
Type these two command lines into Terminal.app (it's in
/Applications/Utilities) and hit return after each, then copy the
results and paste it all into your reply here. The ping command
should run fairly quickly - it's only 10 pings. The traceroute may
take a while. If it doesn't seem to stop, after a bunch of lines
that have "* * *" in them, just hit control-c. The "*" means that
that particular "hop" is not responding to the pings being sent by
the traceroute command.
ping -c 10 8.8.8.8
traceroute -n 8.8.8.8
HTH,
- Dan.
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