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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 24, 2010 16:49:28 GMT -5
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Post by yrian on Jan 25, 2010 3:31:24 GMT -5
yup u kinda lag lolbut i idc anymore sol used to the classic snipe moment when u hit a guy he lags u need to reload ur bullet wich takes 2 sec and bam ur dead lol
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Post by scoperfin on Jan 25, 2010 11:35:24 GMT -5
That's basically why I don't take online gaming too seriously, anybody who glitches, lag switches, lags or hacks can dominate.
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 25, 2010 13:13:05 GMT -5
and why i stick to tanks and engineer as much as possible, it negates the advantage people with faster connections have over me .... thats my excuse anyway  |
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Post by justjackyl on Jan 27, 2010 0:20:01 GMT -5
Well, along time ago when I first started gaming with the Sony, I used to be registered on the Official PS2 forums, and somewhere it was pointed out and stated that a Download speed of 1MB/S or 1000kb/s was fine enough for gaming.
What is your upload speed. Thats what needs to be taken into consideration atm. If your running an UPLOAD of less than 128kb/s, your input is lagged, and the server will therefore try and compensate.
It's not always download speeds that cause you to lag, the cause can be just as much a bogged down upload speed.
On a really good day I hit 4MB/s down and 500kb/s.
I PAY for a 7MB/s down and 720kb/s.
Distance from server location, local network traffic, shared pool bandwidth all play a part in your speeds.
A perfect example, I live in a huge apartment complex. Everyone throughout the complex is hooked into 1 main "trunk line". During the evening when everyone is home from work and congesting up the lines, my download speeds can sink far below 500kb/s down and 100-128kb/s up. Now fast forward to 2am in the morning when everyone is asleep, I can hit anywhere from 4-7MB/s down and 500-720kb/s up.
ALOT of things in the home also need to be taken into consideration. For example, when electronics run hot, their efficiency is reduced dramatically. Are the modem and or router sitting on top of other heat producing sources? Are the cooling slots of the modem and or router obstructed not allowing heat to properly vent out of the equipment? Heat rises, store them low, preferably on a wooden shelf as wood does not store heat as much as a metal shelf would. Do not store on cloth or carpet as fabric houses heat and does not cool efficiently, and also can restrict the cooling vents of your equipment. I know that seems kinda strange, but if you have your modem/router sitting on the floor, rest your hand on it, see how warm it feels, than sit it on a shelf and feel the heat in an hour, it should feel ALOT cooler.
Now wiring can make a huge difference in signal integrity. If your using a coaxial cable that has cracked insulation, this allows "noise" to leak into the line, which the components must filter out, and also reduces signal strength. Splitters are a big issue as well. If you have one line coming from the wall that feeds into a splitter, and than one line runs into your TV, and the other runs into your modem, you want a splitter with a high OHM rating. Also, these types of connections break the signal integrity down as it switches from line to splitter to line, and you also at the same time are "splitting" the signal down 2 separate lines. Look at it this way. We will use the word voltage for signal. Now take the a fore mentioned scenario with a splitter, TV and modem. Even if your TV is not on, voltage is still running on the line to the TV and the modem, thus reducing the strength of the voltage reaching the modem. Does that make any sense?
Another thing to take into consideration and is ALWAYS an item of debate, is length of line you are using. NOT your Ethernet cable, but your coaxial cable. You can run up to 300FT of CAT5 (ethernet cable) before signal degradation starts to occur, but after 10-15ft of coaxial, the signal is degraded. The ideal setup would be NO MORE than 5foot of coaxial cable directly from your wall jack, directly to the modem. Than you would use a longer CAT5 cable to route your signal throughout your home. Thats the setup I have and I run great speeds, and I really only suffer lag when playing on heavily congested servers that are physically located far away from my home, or say the g/f is online sucking up my upload speed, thus increasing the amount of time from the moment I press R1 to the time the server registers it. Believe it or not, this causes your teleportation and delayed/missed shots/showed hit detection with shot not actually hitting target more so than a shotty download speed.
It's kinda late, so as I think of some more ideas, I'll post them. Hope this may steer you in the right direction.
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 27, 2010 5:10:30 GMT -5
wow thats good intel agent jacky
my modem does sit on another bit of equipment, and guess who put it there... my internet provided when they set up my wireless router. i'll move it.
dodn think i have a splitter.... phone line goes straight to the modem which then goes wireless to my laptop and is wired to my tv decoder and wired to the ps2 console.
so yeah i'm getting broadband tv too, could that be eating up bandwidth too? if i turned the tv box off when i play ps2 would that help?
i'll check the cable lengths when i get in
not sure what my upload speed is off the top of my head, will do a speed test when i get home but ive done a recent test and my download speed was up to 2mb
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 28, 2010 8:49:10 GMT -5
i'm trying to switch to virgin fibre optic, its in my street but strangely not to my block of flats, altho the block next door has it... and theyre a bunch of fags.
just did a speed test and upload speed was 44 somethings
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Post by justjackyl on Jan 28, 2010 17:15:25 GMT -5
i'm trying to switch to virgin fibre optic, its in my street but strangely not to my block of flats, altho the block next door has it... and theyre a bunch of fags. just did a speed test and upload speed was 44 somethings 44kbs thats bad.. |
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 28, 2010 21:51:27 GMT -5
just did one its was 465 :-)
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Post by justjackyl on Jan 28, 2010 22:20:35 GMT -5
just did one its was 465 :-) 465kbs thats good!  Now, was there any difference in time that you did it vs time that people would be using the "net" the most? |
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 29, 2010 8:20:52 GMT -5
yeah its quicker late at nite, esp after midnite. which is when i do most of my gaming. was not laggy at all last nite, i pwned.
new game tag: Midnite
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Post by justjackyl on Jan 29, 2010 9:21:08 GMT -5
yeah its quicker late at nite, esp after midnite. which is when i do most of my gaming. was not laggy at all last nite, i pwned. new game tag: Midnite Inspiration strikes again. |
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Post by thkeller7 on Jan 29, 2010 11:59:19 GMT -5
Please ; Check the interface between the console and the controller.
(that be u)
Definably not right!
;D
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Post by aka Kizza on Jan 29, 2010 12:13:02 GMT -5
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Post by scoperfin on Jan 29, 2010 13:12:56 GMT -5
Ok midnite, do you have the 360 or the original XBOX? (you said game tag)
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