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[Huginn]

I am starting to think that there needs to be a lesson built into the SE website so people can realize what affect this ping has and how FOS you are when it comes to saying you are severely handicapped.

1. Most games are designed with some latency in mind.
2. Try doing a ping to various area in the US and Japan. Obviously you will quickly realize that from the US to Japan the ping is really not much or no more than if you were connected to a server across the US from where you are.
3. The high latency numbers you see are mostly your crap ISP not the connection to Japan.
Examples.
I am on the game right this second in Uldah near the crystal where pretty much everyone collects and the shouts.
My Send is fluctuating from 38-52, my receive even while moving around and waiting for the many many people to pop is 98-180 (I only seem to hit the 180ish area when I first zone in and it is loading the players and npcs).

When I exist the mega busy area of Uldah and move to the center area next to the water fixture and the house. I am pinging 72-138 varying.

When I go to Thanalan it goes even lower, if I go to the market wards onces again it goes even lower.

If you are pinging 300 MS then you have a local problem that a new server south of Los Angeles (where the FFXI server is) won't fix.


I did some tests using Speedtest dot net.

to Rochester NY (not NYC) I get ping of 107
to Los Angeles my ping is about 85ish
to Tokyo (busy city) to a slower server I ping 128, to the faster one in Tokyo I ping 109

The difference between NY and Tokyo is negligible at best

I am not running a powerhouse computer either.
I have a Core 2 Duo with a Gforce 460 (768MB) and 8GB of Ram.

Try doing a netstat while the game is running and ACTUALLY ping the server or at least the gateway that the game server is running from. Right now i am getting 172 from the game server and 184 from the login.

When you use speedtest .net you are usually pinging backbones or major ISP speedtest servers, not the internal server for a company. Although your conclusion is correct, you came about it completely wrong. check the server address for you. hint, ports are 54994 and 54992. also, the numbers up top in the game for send and receive are NOT your latency.