said by Mchart :

I consistantly get ping times that are better then those presented in the youtube video; all on my $23 a month connection.

When will people realize that more bandwidth != low latency?

said by GR_Thor :

The first gateway cities are Seattle, LA, Chicago, St Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, and NY. However at this time, only the StL gateway is up.

McHart, it's great that you found some servers to play on that ping well for you. If those are the only servers you use, GameRail probably isn't for you.

For me however, living in a place that does not have a direct internet drain (all of my traffic goes to Dallas or Chicago first, 98% of the time) I ping about 60ms to servers that are less than a mile away from me. Fire up GameRail, and it drops to 10-12ms. To the coasts, I regularly see improvements of ~40ms. This is all on my standard home connection, with no optimizations, or funny business. We can't, and never have, said that GameRail will work for everybody. The internet is a goofy place, and there will always be situations we unfortunately can't help with. That being said, there are lots of cases where we can.

But I guess the only way some people will accept that not everyone on the net is trying to pull one over on them is to try it, which you will be able to. If you don't like it, don't subscribe, but we think a lot of people will.

said by Mchart :

I consistantly get ping times that are better then those presented in the youtube video; all on my $23 a month connection.

said by EnasYorl :

Good Thing Gamerail is NOT just about bandwidth and IS about latency.

Bandwidth is only a part of latency. Network design is what counts.

»www.gamerail.com/index.php?famil···,details

said by EnasYorl :

Good Thing Gamerail is NOT just about bandwidth and IS about latency.

Bandwidth is only a part of latency. Network design is what counts.

»www.gamerail.com/index.php?famil···,details

said by Mchart :

Says the funny man with Comcast.

Hint - It starts with your ISP.

said by Cheese :

I would say latency is part of bandwidth, not the other way around

said by EnasYorl :

Latency is the time it takes to arrive from Point A to Point B.

The 1st Part of Latency is physical distance traveled. SPeed of light in a vacuum is 5.4microseconds/mile (Light in Fiber is slower)
The 2nd Part of Latency is number of routers that have to process the packet. This is where allot of latency is produced.
The 3rd Part of Latency is the Bandwidth of the pipes to each router and how much traffic is competing against other user traffic. If this Pipe isn't overloaded then the issue is how the network is built between Point A and Point B or how many available peering points there are.

You should really read the Gamerail presentation as they explain it pretty well.

But Bandwidth is only a slice of the Latency pie. You cannot say Latency is part of the Bandwidth Pie.

said by Cheese :

Thanks for making my point.

said by EnasYorl :

Better read that again. I disproved your point.

Otherwise give us your technical explanation to backup up your claim that Latency is only affected by Bandwidth.

said by Cheese :

If I had actually said latency is only affected by bandwidth...

You might want to get those eyes checked.

said by EnasYorl :

The problem with your argument is you claim Bandwidth is the main reason and it's not.

said by Cheese :

I did? Please, OH PLEASE, show me where I said that. Oh that's right! You can't because I didn't say it!

I said, and I will quote since you seem to have a reading comprehension issue.

"I would say latency is part of bandwidth, not the other way around"

See how it says "latency is part of bandwidth"? You said bandwidth is part of latency, um, without bandwidth, there would be nothing to have latency

Buy hey, why bother! You aren't going to get what I was trying to say anyway

said by EnasYorl :

No I understand your point. You missed mine.

Thanks for the discussion.

said by Cheese :

Your point is obviously missed then. When you can make a valid point, then we can call is a discussion.

said by EnasYorl :

I did. You don't comprehend Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3 network operation and I'm done discussing it.

said by LightS :

Ohh, I love that. He's basically defending against the other posters here who say that his product sucks. It's wrong for you to do, and he's merely defending it.

Also for you other people, this network is good -- They peer with your ISP so you don't have to go with their public network -- instead, the gaming packets are routed directly to the game server.

Please do a little bit of reading before you criticize..