Exar_reborn Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 New to the boards and just looking for some friends on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Pretty much everyone here is going to be on the Starsider server, which is an East Coast server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 Good, I like being able to be on the same time as my clan members (PA members) I get more accomplished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 really ..., i don't know which server i will use, definitely east coast though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legameboy Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 im going to starsider because everyone is going there, do you think ill get lag though? i have broadband but im mountian time so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 i doubt it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I think people that are on the other side of the world that come to Starsider will lag... and I'm in EST Time zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 that's why they will probably create european/asian server if needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Well, newsflash: if the servers lag because a lot of people connects to it, it will lag the same amount for US users as for european users. And seriously, there's not that many more hub couplings between my broadband in Sweden and the US, if you're really unlucky, you might have more relays with your connection from say, Denver, than I've got. Listen carefully now: It's all up to how your connection is relayed, and more importantly, how your traffic is prioritized by the ISP's, which in turns depends on what your ISP pay to the guys owning the core infrastructure of the net for their traffic. Pure physical locations doesn't have as much to do with it as these issues. Going for a server 500 miles closer to you will propably not affect you at all. Sorry to break the illusion, but this is the internet, not the Postal Service. Sorry to be all technical and stuff, but it seems someone on this board has to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legameboy Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 when you said And seriously, there's not that many more hub couplings between my broadband in Sweden and the US, if you're really unlucky, you might have more relays with your connection from say, Denver, than I've got. I LIVE IN DENVER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 All bow down to Set's techno babbling I guess ya got a point about the relaying stuff...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 lol techno babble... basically it doesn't matter the distance, but how many times to transmission has to be boosted or narrowed (hops) UR PC -> UR ISP -> ... ->INTERNET BACKBONE -> ... -> SONY's ISP -> SONY'S EAST COAST SERVER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 THANK you abaddon, finally someone catches the drift! j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legameboy Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 oh, i get it now, the more locations it has to head to, the more chance youll get lag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Not exactly. It also depends on how fast the connections between those nodes are, how high priority your packets have when they reach the switches, and also, how the connections are made. If you have a cheap ISP, they might send your traffic in very weird ways, to avoid the more expensive lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 for example your first hop could be 0ms (ping); 0% packet loss, but the second hops could screw it up with a 2332ms ping and 75% packet loss. the more hops the more likely that the there will be packet loss and ping issues, but it depends on the server themselves. Also internet traffic could slow down the signal, and like setsuko said unrelible servers could have limited bandwidth. It is definitely better to have an ISP which has a high quality connection to a backbone. Lag can be caused your computer hardware, your ethernet card/modem, your ISP, your ISPs connection to the major backbones, internet traffic loads, number of hops, quality of servers that you/isp use as hops (bandwidth, traffic, packet loss), and many more things There is a dos command to tell you what your hops,packet loss, ping to servers ... its netcheck, oh darn i forgot it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnfrozenCaveman Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 East coast represent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 booya! that command is tracert , btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 19, 2003 Author Share Posted April 19, 2003 you guys are confusin me with all that high tech mumbojumbo, HA mumbo umbo thats a funny word. while i'm on that topic, does anyone know where they get the phrase "the dickens"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 No. Yes, that command is tracert. Just get up the dos prompt, and type in tracert http://www.swgalaxies.net, or whatever address you want. You can also type in the IP address if you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 and it will work if your not behind the firewall of doom, like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnfrozenCaveman Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Could you use it in a sentence? --Possibly because when the phrase was first used it was ment to be something very long winded....kind of like Charles Dickens novels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackrabbit Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 3@st C0@sT r0xx0r j00! I did that tracert thing...but I don't know what any of these results mean. I do know my connection isn't too good though; most of the numbers are between 1000 and 2900. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 1000-2900ms ping, damn that means you have a definite ping problem EDIT: what the result of the first hop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarCords Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I'm EST, but I live "up north" in Ontario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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