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Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4
From: Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:45:13 -0600
Most games do implement a "minimum latency" where no matter how low your latency is, you'll always have at least 30ms or so (from what I've seen) to keep things fair for MOST broadband internet connections. So no, you cannot bring your laptop into the data center, [proverbially] plug directly into an IX, and expect to wipe the floor with your competition; you'll be artificially placed at the same level as someone with high speed cable service in the surrounding area. -Matt On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 3:17 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
...I'm guessing someone didn't read "Harrison Bergeron" in middle school, then? Crippling everyone down to the lowest common denominator is a wonderful recipe for creating a service or platform that *nobody* wants to use. If I connect through an AOL dialup account to an FPS gaming platform, you really, *really* shouldn't be adding 300ms of latency to everybody else on that server, just to be fair to me. I mean, sure, it's *fair*--but it also makes the game far less playable for everyone else, and they'd be completely right to stop paying for the service and move over to a different platform that doesn't hobble their game playing any time someone on a slow connection joins the game. ^_^;; Matt On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:30 PM Matt Hoppes < mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote:Correct - but with a server based model you can look at the lag to the worst clients and add lag to the other clients so everyone has a level playing field.
-- Matt Erculiani ERCUL-ARIN
Current thread:
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4, (continued)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Mike Hammett (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Tom Beecher (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Martijn Schmidt via NANOG (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Mike Hammett (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Matthew Petach (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Tom Beecher (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Carlos M. Martinez (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Tom Beecher (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Matt Hoppes (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Matthew Petach (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Matt Erculiani (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Valdis Klētnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Chris Adams (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Seth Mattinen (Sep 28)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Daniel Sterling (Sep 30)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Josh Luthman (Sep 30)
- Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4 Daniel Sterling (Sep 30)