Gary Stanley wrote: > At 09:08 PM 6/3/2009, Oliver Salzburg wrote: > >> I run a box with 4 L4D servers on it. >> The average ping is around 30 and I am wondering if I could further >> improve it with srcds settings. I never experience any lag when playing >> on them but I thought the ping value can never be low enough. >> I've read a lot about pingboosts and tickrates on this list so I was >> wondering what the general recommendation would be to improve the ping. >> >> Thanks in advance >> > > The speed of light in a perfect vacuum is 186k/miles a second. Due to > fiber's refractive index of 1.49, The speed of light in normal fiber > is about 124k/miles a second. > For every 60 miles of fiber, 1 millisecond of latency is added. (This > is the most ideal conditions, however network queuing delays and > other things slow it down too) > Even though I enjoy a physichs lesson as much as the next guy, I am pretty sure that after a signal has travelled through all that fiber that it still needs to be processed. And I believe that after processing an answer is generated and sent back. As the keen reader that you are, you are most likely aware that this process requires a certain amount of time and this amount can vary. You most likely also noticed that this variation results from various factors (you speak of so called "other things" in your reply). And these factors are what I was inquiring about.
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