rec.autos.simulators

In Northern ***ia, we have Cox RoadRunner Cable.  It has become notorious
for packet losses and horrendous latency issues.

At times, it is almost impossible to do ANY online *** at all.

The packet losses get so bad, effective transfer rates, as measured by
Internet Bandwidth Test, drop to, get this, less than 100k/sec.

This is all supposed to be fixed by the end of the month, but it's been like
this for like 8 months, and we've been paying full price for lackluster
service.

-Larry

Pings are super! :)

* Rob kisses his ADSL modem

I envy those that actually get what they pay for :)

-Larry

I suppose I could just ask them :)

In the UK, I think most low-pinging gamers are on cable, adsl or ja.net (UK
university connection). Cable is most common, ja.net is fastest. I'm basing
this on Quake3 gamers, which I played a *lot* of when I had my ja.net
connection. I'm just on a modem now :0(

Hehe :0)

Jim

I am on Home Highway with BT Internet and I regularly get 50-80 pings on UK
servers - both HL and GPL.  Actually both my brother and I can play with
50-80 pings at the same time on the shared 64K connection.

Ash

| Thanks for the replies guys.  As well as Vroc, I'm also thinking of games
| like half-life.  I see people on HL with pings of 50-70, whereas I'm stuck
| in the 160-180's at very best.  Are these people with low pings using
cable
| modem/adsl or are they just closer to the servers?
|
| I suppose I could just ask them :)
|

| > Plenty of folks with ADSL have complaints too :)
| >
| > I envy those that actually get what they pay for :)
| >
| > -Larry
| >


| > > I got ADSL
| > >
| > > Pings are super! :)
| > >
| > > * Rob kisses his ADSL modem
| > >

| > >
| > > > Just wondering whether having a Cable Modem service or DSL/ADSL
means
| > lower
| > > > pings for online *** in the majority of circumstances?  Also,
| anyone
| > had
| > > > any experience with Blueyonder from Telewest in the UK (cable modem
| > > > service)?
| > >
| > > --
| > > Rob Swindells
| > > /////////////
| > > Caps
| > > Lock
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|

Other servers can be 200+, but presumably that is because they are further
away (in terms of hops) or slower.