I heart my ISP!!!! :)

Of all the threads to necro...

I'm from NZ and I normally have a ping of around 200-350ms when playing MMOs, east or west coast US server can make a difference of up to 50ms though I've noticed.

Playing in the 1st CBT everything seemed fine, so I suppose it'll be OK : P

6mbit connection




Korea....

Most important things for gaming are:

Physical distance to server
Packet hops to server
efficiency in packets going out

If someone is downloading a bunch of junk eatting up all the bandwidth then your game packets have to wait before they can go out = higher ping = bad.

Also, Disable Nagle's algorithm in windows. Here is link for guide

http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574

Basically, windows stacks packets and holds onto them and sends them out in bigger chunks to help boost download performance, however this is bad for games, as you want your packets to go out as soon as they are available to do so. Having your system hold onto them = higher ping = bad.

So disable that via the guide.

That leaves Distance to server / amount of hops your packets make going that distance. Having a 12mbps down / 4mbps up cable connection doesn't mean jack squat if the server is in Chicago and your sitting in Australia. Game packets are tiny and use very little bandwidth. but they still need to get to the game server and back to your PC. Further away you are, the higher your ping.

You can use a proxy/tunneling service like battleping, and it'll help direct your packets more efficiently, in turn lowering ping a little, but there is only so much you can do. Far away is still far away is still bad ping.

I hope these tips help you make the most of your experience in Tera, as it is very ping dependent.

Could have swore they said the servers aren't in seattle at some point. My latency (70 - 100) in game would reflect this, considering Seattle is about 25 miles from me. I didn't do a tracert to count the hops, but I would assume I would just bounce around qwest/centurylink (takes about 18ms to leave century link's network depending on their congestion) then hop the backbone for a (very short) trip over to whatever building the servers are hosted. All said in done, if they're in seattle I should have been seeing max 50ms latency (what I used to get to a WoW server hosted in Seattle).

for decent gaming ping rate go for something between 14mbps-16mbps, which is typically the max residential speeds.

however if you are able to get higher, such as 20mbps-50mbps, i'd suggest that.

Quote: DrakeDragon on 04/18/2012, 03:38 AM - view

People like this clown make me wish you needed to publish an IT certificate to give online tech advice.

Worst advice yet in this thread.

Quote: Gallus on 04/18/2012, 03:44 AM - view

post a link to prove what i said was wrong, otherwise shut up?

http://www.cogeco.ca/web/on/en/residential/internet/packages.php

Not too shabby...