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Online Gaming Question
I know this might be a stupid question, but what causes a bunch of lag in online gaming? The reason for asking is I have dial-up (dowloading is a blast, totally sweet) and I've played AoE and Cube (with 7 other people) and not seen much lag at all, but when I tried Medal of Honor, I died all the time due to lag. So is it the quality of the game or something?

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7/29/2006 21:52

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My guess is it depends on how much the game relies on the connection. For instance, I think AOE is pretty much all rendered locally with very little information being transferred. It may also have something to do with the host server if you are connecting to a game server...This is just a guess. It definitely is game specific. Some of my PS2 games are great online and others slow down.

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7/30/2006 08:41

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Yeah, I've wondered this too, because I remember playinig AoE games w/ micah and brandon (only micah has a fast connection, brandon's is quite slow and mine wasn't much better), but we would play with little to no lag issues, and I usually hosted the game, even the my connection was pretty sad.

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Yeah I have noticed that some games are different than others becaue when I play AOE online with people I have no problems but with some other games It slows down.

What does ping 30 mean is it good or bad?

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8/31/2006 15:05

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I think you are referring to the latency in the connection. If you open a dos prompt and type ping www.google.com or another ip address you will see how long it took for the information to get to the server and back.

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Oh I didnt know that maybe I will try it sometime but that is good to know

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