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Lag Question/Poll?

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  • 01-11-2013 11:34pm
    #1
    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭


    Something weird happened tonight, im getting serious lag making the game unplayable.

    But the kid was playing it on PS3 and no such issues. 200MB UPC with cracking ping so its not that, 90 FPS with a reasonably decent PC.

    So i wondered

    Lag? 13 votes

    PC YES
    0% 0 votes
    PC NO (ISP?)
    76% 10 votes
    XBOX YES
    15% 2 votes
    XBOX NO (ISP?)
    0% 0 votes
    PS3 YES
    0% 0 votes
    PS3 NO (ISP?)
    7% 1 vote
    Atari Jaguar
    0% 0 votes


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    #2
    game4it70
    Registered Users Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭game4it70


    Server issues.I found a few of the uk ones very laggy.


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    #3
    ewj1978
    Registered Users Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    Didn't try tonight but last night most of the servers I tried were unplayable.. it was affecting everyone on the server.


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    #4
    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭CrinkElite


    It was the very same when battlefield 3 first hit.
    Like many titles these days, it won't be working properly for months.


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    #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,261 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    200MB UPC with cracking ping so its not that,

    This is a widespread misconception that's worth addressing. That 200m is only on your last mile, and the ping is irrelevant. Your traffic isn't going to stay on UPC, nor on your last mile. You're wrongly assuming that every path to everything on the net has infinite bandwidth. Your traffic will need to navigate through a lot of other connections, such as peering points, all of which are susceptible to congestion and saturation. For gaming purposes a 10 meg connection from UPC is the same as a 200 meg one, and has the same vulnerabilities and potential issues.


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    #6
    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Spear wrote: »
    This is a widespread misconception that's worth addressing. That 200m is only on your last mile, and the ping is irrelevant. Your traffic isn't going to stay on UPC, nor on your last mile. You're wrongly assuming that every path to everything on the net has infinite bandwidth. Your traffic will need to navigate through a lot of other connections, such as peering points, all of which are susceptible to congestion and saturation. For gaming purposes a 10 meg connection from UPC is the same as a 200 meg one, and has the same vulnerabilities and potential issues.

    In the context of lag there is no ping issues as we used to have with Eircom, we couldnt both play together with our "24mb" Eircom.

    Hence the its not the connection part


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