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How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423107]

Sun, 21 March 2010 23:38

snpr1101
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Registered: June 2007
Location: Australia

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Hey, like the title says, I feel like banging my head against a wall sometimes when I'm competing against good players.

The best ping I've ever had on Ren is ~300; and every ~2-5 minutes wihout fail, I get a nice little ~3 second lag spike. This causes every player or vehicle on my screen to continue in the direction they were last running or moving for around 3 seconds; and I can damage them in this time (this has been the cause for many cheating claims made against me).

It's frustrating hugging a wall one second, then teleporting ten meters out from behind it the next to get raped. The same happens with vehicles and base defenses, My vech teleports and get owned by them or other players.

I notice my KBPS drops and thus, ping increases.

The two obvious causes of this that I can point out is my location (australia) and I use a Wireless Router. Sneaky

I hate lag killing people, and I hate being lag killed. I also hate how my opponent almost has a half a second headstart on me due to latency.

What can I do to improve my connection? (aside from putting shit loads of money into it)

If you want net specs just ask and I'll post em if it helps.

cheers for reading

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423109 is a reply to message #423107]

Mon, 22 March 2010 00:02

Wiener
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Registered: September 2005
Location: Germany

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The obvious is to get rid of the wireless and simply try-out a cable. Thats much easier than trying to improve your wlan set up.

You will always have lag on most servers you play on (due to your location) but what you describe is most likely related to your wlan.

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423124 is a reply to message #423107]

Mon, 22 March 2010 04:04

CarrierII
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Registered: February 2006
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Yeah, your location can't be adjusted, but try out a wired LAN cable instead.

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423339 is a reply to message #423124]

Tue, 23 March 2010 05:38

raven
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Registered: January 2007
Location: Toronto, Ontario

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CarrierII wrote on Mon, 22 March 2010 05:04

Yeah, your location can't be adjusted

Ever hear of moving?

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423340 is a reply to message #423339]

Tue, 23 March 2010 06:07

danpaul88
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Registered: June 2004
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raven wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 12:38

CarrierII wrote on Mon, 22 March 2010 05:04

Yeah, your location can't be adjusted

Ever hear of moving?

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You honestly think moving to another country for the sake of a better connection to Renegade servers is a good suggestion? When CarrierII was talking about location he meant in terms of country, in this case Australia, which is always going to have a poor ping to online services in Europe and America, which is where almost all Renegade servers are hosted.

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423342 is a reply to message #423107]

Tue, 23 March 2010 06:14

Goztow
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Registered: March 2005
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The spikes aren't normal. A constant high ping would be much more bearable. People get used to high pings, not to sudden spikes.

Are you the only computer on your network? Is your wireless connection secure? Did you try with a cable?

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423343 is a reply to message #423107]

Tue, 23 March 2010 06:15

raven
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danpaul88 wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 13:07

is all humour lost on you people?

I even made it obvious with the emoticon Sad

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423355 is a reply to message #423343]

Tue, 23 March 2010 07:41

Kimb
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Registered: August 2009
Location: There is no greater power...

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raven wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 07:15

danpaul88 wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 13:07

is all humour lost on you people?

I even made it obvious with the emoticon Sad

try a bigger emotion next time

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But ive hear people from Australia complain about connections to many games, but if you use wireless, that is most likely the issue

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CarrierII wrote on Fri 21 May 2010 06:58

This doesn't meet the minimum standards of spam.

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423363 is a reply to message #423107]

Tue, 23 March 2010 08:45

CarrierII
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It's coming up to exam time and Danpaul is obviously very stressed. :-s

It was kinda amusing... :s

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Re: How do I compete against those with better Net? [message #423467 is a reply to message #423340]

Wed, 24 March 2010 04:48

DRNG
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Registered: October 2009
Location: Canada

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danpaul88 wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 09:07

raven wrote on Tue, 23 March 2010 12:38

CarrierII wrote on Mon, 22 March 2010 05:04

Yeah, your location can't be adjusted

Ever hear of moving?

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It might be a good idea to move out of Australia so you can visit a website which might contain a breast or two, or a drop of blood, or even foul language. Sarcasm