Gday All

Was wondering why the shockwave servers are the lowest ping for me in Australia?
The best I can get is around 250 which I find ok to play.

The best I can get for mods is around 330 upwards and this starts to get pretty hard to shoot and steer properly. Which is why I stick to SW mostly.
Currently MI Banlist Indie is the fasted mod at 313. (Roo's = 430, BigRed Barn 445 etc)

Is it location or the type of internet connection these SW servers use which make them fastest?
I'd help fund a server that can emulate the SW ping if anyone would be interested.

Cheers from Lag-Land
Squid

I don't know for sure, but given the nature of their business, they likely have a very fast connection and it is probably very close to one of the backbones of the Internet. They don't have to be routed through neighborhoods and from city to city before catching a connection to a backbone.

If you want to find where the backbones are, try googling "internet backbone" along with the places you're interested in.

EDIT- Shockwave is based in San Francisco, and has nearly immediate access to several backbones across the Pacific. (and possibly satellite linkage too?)

Last edited: Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 4:40:34 AM

Shockwave or any west coast server will have the best latency for you
because of distance and the number of junctions the signal passes thru
Also because the shockwave servers are linux

^ Cheers LGM and Roo, Does linux make that much difference?
Has anyone else got a server linked into the internet backbone ? And if so which vertebrae are you linked into? XD

Personally I'd like to see performance data on equally equipped harware running Linux, Windows and OSX.

My theory is that most of the linux based servers are located in data centers with better connections to the net. Of course nobody has euqal hardware and enough interest to try and gather performance data to see if there is a benefit on one platform over the other.

Dash's Linux servers are running from the same switch that my OS X servers are.

What's the hardware make up of each of the systems? How many network cards are in each machine, cpu's per box, memory, etc.

Well I have played and served TT on both Windows and Linux
Since Mac OSX is unix based it falls under the linux category
Just as NUTS said in a previeous thread
Windows has an odd 15 second blip
When driving my linux tank on windows the screen jumps every 15 seconds
When driving my windows tank on linux its smooth
and when using a linux tank on a linux server its like glass
I say that linux TT is more responsive
That the tanks jump farther - turn faster and reload quicker than windows
When on linux I can be more aggressive and get away with it
If I try the same moves on windows = roast chicken
Also as far as hardware and network speed the point is moot
This is a dual boot bad boy
So everything else is the same

Last edited: Monday, January 23, 2006 at 9:50:34 PM

Only your not worthless birdbrain. ;)

Last edited: Monday, January 23, 2006 at 9:57:29 PM