[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Mr Viggy]

Actually, depending on the game, speed is not an issue.  Latency is!

:-)

Games like Unreal Tournament, Quake, etc., send very little information 
over the conenction.  However, you want that information to get there 
and back as fast as possible.  Otherwise, other players in the game 
appear to "jump" around the screen.

The problem with analog modems (56k) is that there is about a 100ms 
latency just to get through all the hardware!  So, when I was on a 
modem, 180-190ms pings were the best I could get.  Now, on DSL, I get 
pings at 100ms or less.  OTOH, Sprint BBD (wireless) has speedy transfer 
rates, but really bad latency.  A friend told me he can't play at all 
from home.   When he does want to play from home, he uses his old 56k 
modem and dial's in!

Viggy

D. Stimits wrote:
> John Dollison wrote:
> 
>> It used to be 3+ MBit downloads, until AT&T sphinctered it down to 1.5 
>> MBit
>> so they could sell us our own surplus for an ADDITIONAL $40/month!  (This
>> change took place a few months ago, I've already spoken to 2 ATT 
>> engineers
>> about it.)
> 
> 
> It is still an outstanding deal. Part of the change is an improvement 
> that most people won't notice: In various locations with new cable 
> service, upload is no longer 256k, but 512k. My understanding is that 
> upload speeds will go from 256k to 512k in other locations (slowly, over 
> time, perhaps over years). The upload speed is very nice for people who 
> play games over the network (still, a 56k modem uploads at half the 
> speed it downloads, so on a connect that gets 50k download, compare 25k 
> upload to 512k upload...it is astounding, even at worst performance 
> moments).
>  :)
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
> 
> 
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