On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:45:37 -0500 eauclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I once ran a Return To Castle Wolfenstein server on a slackware 8.1 > box out of my house. It did not have very good performance, all the > players who joined had very high ping rates. My ISP is optonline.net, > which has great service - 6MB download and 4MB upload. I thought it > should have worked better than it did. Ping times are not necessarily related to upload/download speed. They are more a measure of network latency. For example, a satellite connection can have great upload and download speeds, but the latencies are going to be awful due to the 46,000 some odd mile round trip to geosynch orbit. You need to find a low latency provider, someone with good peering to other ISPs, that will do much more for ping times than anything else. The fewer hops a packet has to travel, the lower the latencies and shorter the ping times. -- jim nutt home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ms msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp id: 1ECBCC78
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