Hi.
The network speed actually doesn't matter that much. I played on a 56k
dialup connection for years. Only with a slow connection you have to be
careful that nothing else is running and slowing your network response
time down or you could end up getting killed because you lagged out
during a particularly tricky fight. The primary concern is the network's
latency rather than to it's data throughput speed. The more latency your
connection has, the longer it takes to get a response from Alter Aeon,
at least to a certain point. Eventually you'll be more or less unable to
go any faster because you're able to go as quick as Alter Aeon itself
can. A lot of connections typically seem to have a latency of about 60
ms, at least that's what you get if you run the ping command on
google.com. Me I am out in the country and the only kind of internet I
can get is celular, and I have a ping response time of about 150ms and I
don't have much trouble playing.
Of course, when your network is working hard to accomplish a task
elsewhere, it'll introduce latency especially if it isn't a very good
connection to start with because the mud client and Alter Aeon have to
wait for their turn to exchange packets since the network is busy moving
data for other things at the same time. In other words you probably
already know this but it's possible to slow things down by downloading
something at the same time you play so be aware of that if you weren't
already.
Alter Aeon and your client communicate only in a low bandwidth text
message like situation, the sounds the client uses are usually stored
locally on your computer so even though you have audio, text messages
are causing those sounds to be played either with or without the intent
of the mud game itself. There are probably lots of bits and pieces of
text not being displayed on screen but which the client you use has
prevented from being displayed on the screen and played a sound or
spoken an alternate message for instead. I think you already understand
this stuff, but in case you or anyone else on the list don't, this might
hopefully help.
Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.10 portable.
On 6/22/2011 2:21 PM, Dennis Towne wrote:
Dark,
You can actually play the game using a dial up modem once you have the
client and/or soundpack downloaded. Your parent's connection should
be fine :)
Dennis Towne
Alter Aeon MUD
http://www.alteraeon.com
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:41 PM, dark<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
sounds awsome, always nice to have new stuff to discover and new spells and
skills to use.
Just a quick question, how fast a connection do I need? I'm currently at my
parents' who have a more minimal broardband package than I do, something
like about a speed of 4 or 5 mb rather than the 17-20 I get in my flat.
Will this be okay for alterean?
if so, i'll look at installing the soundpack on my laptop so that I can play
here.
All the best,
Dark.
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