FPS on overseas servers using unshaped?

[wmaker]

Has anyone managed to play any FPS on overseas servers? Can it be done if you have an unshaped account in SA?

I am thinking of games like bf1942, bf2, css, cod2. The average ping I see on game browsers like All-Seeing Eye is 300+, which gets you kicked.

 

[useless]

for overseas servers unshaped works best for RPG's.

FPS servers overseas have under 150ms limitations for people to join most of the time.

besides the point, whats wrong with SA's local BF2, CSS and CoD2 servers?

 

[wmaker]

whats wrong with SA's local BF2, CSS and CoD2 servers?

Not much - except you've listed just about all of 'em. I'd sure like a game of Forgotten Hope now and then ...

 

[useless]

hehehe... MODs are a tad difficult to setup on the main servers...

 

[gkm]

Unshaped accounts also have pings above 300ms. About 300ms seems to be the current lower boundary, no matter what solution you use.

 

[Kalvaer]

Yeah for some reason.. Which telkom and many others put down to the distance from South Africa to New York. There is an automatic 300 ms added to the pings.

In fact 90% of all pings leaving the country do.

While I can understand the distance mentioned, What I dont understand is how come when somebody from the USA pings an address in Mozambique.. its around 90-150ms, Pings to Moscow Russia from Texas hit about 50 - 100 ms, yet when they ping SA.. as soon as it his SA soil.. 300 ms

 

[wmaker]

Yeah - there are plenty overseas players on SA FPS servers. So why not the other way round?

 

[gkm]

Note, they also suffer the 300ms ping when playing here, so it is hard to understand why they would bother.

 

[MaD]

Note, they also suffer the 300ms ping when playing here, so it is hard to understand why they would bother.

Boredom, and curiosity.

One night on the Counterstrike server an American kid joined and asked in a *heavy* American accent if we're all Negros (but the slang word for Negro) - because this was South Africa and he thought everyone was black! Clearly bored, uneducated and racist.. tut tut.

 

[gkm]

I hope you explained to him that we use counterstrike as training for hunting lions.

 

[wmaker]

Note, they also suffer the 300ms ping when playing here

Odd ... I often find overseas players on this South African bf1942 server:
Gamzone - 1942/FH/DC (196.2.128.102:14567)
and they play happily under 100ms .

Is the 300ms ping SGS server related then?

 

[gkm]

Not sure how they would get that, since we are all using the same "wires" going both ways.

It has got nothing to do with SGS. Anything that goes on the undersea cables tend to go over 300ms, gaming or otherwise. Anything that goes through the sky is even worse.

Edit: As Mad pointed out, they might have problems reading the ping times correctly, due to failing math in grade two or something like that. Also, it is an EA BF series game, so I would not trust the ping times displayed.

 

[MaD]

I hope you explained to him that we use counterstrike as training for hunting lions.

lol no, the people on the server put on accents and the dude left after two rounds, totally horrified..

 

[Kalvaer]

Anything that goes on the undersea cables tend to go over 300ms, gaming or otherwise.

And if it stops in SA. You can quiet easily use the same cable and skip SA to any of the other countries using the same cable (closer or further away from us).. and be sitting at 110 ms ping