What connection speed (ping) do you have?

Tarck - Heavens Tear

Just curious.

I get this:

playing from Germany.

To determine it:
Launch game (Start) -> Confirm -> click on Switch Server

(ping from a dos box does not work)

Your speeds and location?

Julyah - Sanctuary

Sanctuary - 201ms
Harshlands - 113ms
Dreamweaver - 161ms
Lost City - 208ms
Heaven's Tear - 217ms

Finland here.

Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear

Mines all in the 400s lol australia

Reivi - Sanctuary

Sanctuary/ HT 218
LC 203

Dream/Harsh 140

France

G_ree_n - Sanctuary

Playing from the north central United States ... and I lag so much I can't even play. b:cry

Reivi - Sanctuary

G_ree_n - Sanctuary wrote: »

Playing from the north central United States ... and I lag so much I can't even play. b:cry

have you tried to clean your computer? (adwares, cookies... )

Do you kill the mule or wathever before playing?

Do you have enuff memory on the system ?

Caledfwlch - Harshlands

35 West
90 East

I get lag spikes on the east every so often, but not enough for me to play on a West Server where I will never get to TW this far behind.

bobzilla21

Wait, high ping is bad, right? How come I lag more on the servers with less ping?

Tarck - Heavens Tear

bobzilla21 wrote: »

Wait, high ping is bad, right? How come I lag more on the servers with less ping?

There are two types of "lag".
One means a delay between your actions and the server's reaction - e.g. you attack a mob (hit a key) and your avatar stands some time in front of the mob (half to one second), doing nothing before it starts.
The other is called "graphical lag", just slow framerate in your display, mostly in areas visited by many people.

Which one do you mean?

G_ree_n - Sanctuary

Reivi - Sanctuary wrote: »

have you tried to clean your computer? (adwares, cookies... )

Do you kill the mule or wathever before playing?

Do you have enuff memory on the system ?

I run AVG daily and Spybot S&D and AdAware every week. I also have Firefox set to delete private data whenever I close it and avoid overuse of ad supported websites.

I don't know what you mean by "kill the mule" but I have 2GB of memory on my system, which is sufficient to burn a DVD while listening to music on WMP with multiple tabs open in Firefox.

My problem seems to have sorted itself though. After making that post earlier, I had little to no lag at all. b:pleased

Julyah - Sanctuary

Wait, high ping is bad, right? How come I lag more on the servers with less ping?

There are two types of "lag".
One means a delay between your actions and the server's reaction - e.g. you attack a mob (hit a key) and your avatar stands some time in front of the mob (half to one second), doing nothing before it starts.
The other is called "graphical lag", just slow framerate in your display, mostly in areas visited by many people.

Which one do you mean?

Also if you have short ping time it means you can send a packet of size X to a server and it replies to you.
Then let's say you play the game and during that playtime the size of the packets differ a bit. That might cause issues. It shouldn't, but depending on your ISP there's a lot of different views on this. Some ISP's might intentionally slow down on bigger packets and some might cut down your network activity if you're sending and receiving (ie. small packets very often) at a frequent rate.
It all depends on so much, and the plain Ping won't tell exactly how well you'll do with Online games. Of course the ping is the only way to measure these things cause we don't know what and how often do the ISP's cause these things.. if at all.