frazcmankfar Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 My friend and I are setting up a server for us and our friends, we all stay quite close and are probably connected via the same tellecom hub (BT). But when I connect to his computer, my ping value is collosall, can you offer any sugestions of how to get it down as we also have high speed DSL conections I dont see howthere can be an excuse... Cheers Fraz aka DARTH WADERS :racer; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willum Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 whats the upload/download speed of your connection. Also how many players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavensSoul Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 try running a tracert to your friends IP you might be surprised how many hops the server takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazcmankfar Posted June 10, 2002 Author Share Posted June 10, 2002 beetween 512k and 576k, there will be 2 player s for the moment. Do you think that having bots is a bad idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seether7 Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 what can i say? it's BT. nah it should be ok, my mates get about 60 ping when i host a server. We've all got adsl with bto. make sure none of u are dloadin at the same time. make sure ur not running any software that'll drain the cpu at the same time. not much more u can do. as for adding bots, depends how good ur pc is. i tried adding 28 bots once on my XP1600 and it was heaps laggy, infact couldn't move really. but it should be ok to add at least a couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerfYoda Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 It should be, but since you've got ADSL you've most likely got a 128k upload speed. Your friend most likely has that as well. Thats probably your bottleneck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasco Smlee Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Originally posted by NerfYoda It should be, but since you've got ADSL you've most likely got a 128k upload speed. Your friend most likely has that as well. Thats probably your bottleneck. If it's BT Openworld broadband it *should* be 256k upload. What pings are you getting? Do they lower without bots? My mates connect to my server on BT adsl via 56k modems and they normally have pings ~200. What is you server maxrate set at? If it's pretty high your mates will be sucking up all your bandwidth probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazcmankfar Posted June 13, 2002 Author Share Posted June 13, 2002 my adsl is with pipex, and i have a speed of 576k and my friend has a speed of 500 ish...... My ping is lower without bots infact its fine in a duel situation, but can go up too 400 at times if there are any others on teh server.......think we are getting there though.. Cheers Everyone Fraz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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