mazhurg
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1 edit | Is online gaming affected?
I will soon be back home and am planning on some sorely needed gaming.
Question, so far has latency been affected on the following?
LOTRO,
Eve-Online,
Guild Wars, and
Quake Wars, Ennemy Territory?
Oh, I do not normally BT or P2p
Tks. |
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The Flash
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Toronto, ON | I'm pretty sure, no. |
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PeeCee Gamer
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| said by The Flash  :I'm pretty sure, no. There are games that use UDP. There are games that you go peer 2 peer. |
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Annex
join:2007-11-21 | Fire up bittorrent during primetime then try playing Hellgate London. Watch your ping go through the roof. |
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The Flash
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said by PeeCee Gamer :said by The Flash :I'm pretty sure, no. There are games that use UDP. There are games that you go peer 2 peer. I doubt the games he listed will have any problems. |
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wildem
join:2008-03-17
Brampton, ON
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I don't know about those games specifically, but game traffic over UDP is mostly treated universally and thus falls in the same category. My latency varies from 70-110 ms to very fast servers. Peer to Peer will be slower.
Good thing to do is to find a local game server ( not on this ISP ) , somewhere like the 151 front street building . These local servers will be a very short hop amount away from you and will give you a very good reading.
My latency used to be in the solid 50s and 60s, but since a couple of months ago, it jumped by about 30-40 ms and fluctuates around ~100. This was right before my torrents got capped at 30 Kb/s. What a mess !
Probably like you, I am heavily involved in this type of gaming bandwidth usage, and if Bell would be less of a f*cked up company we would all be happier. |
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hitORmiss
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said by mazhurg :I will soon be back home and am planning on some sorely needed gaming. Question, so far has latency been affected on the following? LOTRO, Eve-Online, Guild Wars, and Quake Wars, Ennemy Territory? Unless someone tries those games specificaly to see if the throttle affects them, then its a maybe.
WoW gaming was affected by the throttle (before they throttled the resellers) but a while later they applied a patch to their throttle to prevent it.
So its hit or miss. |
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