05-14-2003, 04:48 PM
i know i'm going to get flamed about how i know nothing about networking and such, but check this out:
i was showing my friend ricochet the other day at his house after he installed it on his comp. he still uses a 56k modem because he's having some problems w/ the dsl company in the area. anyways, we check out rc servers on ASE and find that rc.nemox.net had the lowest ping (~200):o. i mean how the hell do you explain that?...and we connected to it and he lagged a little but not terrible...probably about the same as me at nemox and i have broadband.
we went to Star-Tac afterwards, which had a ping of ~350, and it was unplayable on his comp. and that's a place that i move pretty well w/ a sustained ping of ~80.
so how come on his comp, the best rc server was the farthest possible rc server?
btw..kinda funny storry: my friend is an uber-noob at fps games, so obviously he sucks at rico...he was playing at nemox for a while and doing terrible: falling off all the platforms and getting hit by basically everything. so he played for like 10 min. w/ roughly the same pple (it was kinda crowded).
anyways, i tell him to let me take over; i keep the screen name and i tell everyone that i'm going to now turn on my hax. so is this story going to end w/ me pulling off this great prank by crushing everyone? not exactly, i did about as bad as my friend did. :lol:
i was showing my friend ricochet the other day at his house after he installed it on his comp. he still uses a 56k modem because he's having some problems w/ the dsl company in the area. anyways, we check out rc servers on ASE and find that rc.nemox.net had the lowest ping (~200):o. i mean how the hell do you explain that?...and we connected to it and he lagged a little but not terrible...probably about the same as me at nemox and i have broadband.
we went to Star-Tac afterwards, which had a ping of ~350, and it was unplayable on his comp. and that's a place that i move pretty well w/ a sustained ping of ~80.
so how come on his comp, the best rc server was the farthest possible rc server?
btw..kinda funny storry: my friend is an uber-noob at fps games, so obviously he sucks at rico...he was playing at nemox for a while and doing terrible: falling off all the platforms and getting hit by basically everything. so he played for like 10 min. w/ roughly the same pple (it was kinda crowded).
anyways, i tell him to let me take over; i keep the screen name and i tell everyone that i'm going to now turn on my hax. so is this story going to end w/ me pulling off this great prank by crushing everyone? not exactly, i did about as bad as my friend did. :lol: