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BrianStephan

BrianStephan

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Heres a question do u guys think that Neotel and their new cable that is due to be launched in mid 2009 would really make a diffrence to our latency issues and the skyrockting price of bandwith?
 
hell yea!, think about it atm we got a cable that we all sharing and complaining about, the new cable will be capable of handling 10times the traffic our current cable does.
 
The ammount of people using broadband could also be 10 times more by then... Not to mention how much more bandwidth applications would require...
We will always be in the darkages :(
 
omg!....you mean ill actually be able to watch you tube vids without stopping everytime to buffer?....in my dreams:rolleyes:
 
Light can only move so fast, how would another cable make it better? Bandwidth does not equal latency?
 
CrazyMadMan said:
Light can only move so fast, how would another cable make it better? Bandwidth does not equal latency?
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Your absolutely correct :D but calculated the Time it takes for a signal to reach Europe is about 75ms (to lazy to search the thread where I was asked to calculate it :O ). So most of our bandwidth issues is connected to poor quality of lines, too high traffic, causing lots and lots of packet losses. With perfect cabling we should be sitting on 150ms pings...

So a new cable could relieve some of the problems if it is managed right, but the infrastructure within the country also need to be updated.
 
My latency has improved beyond belief almost, after 2.3. Since the patch I have never seen my response time go over 500ms during a 25man raid. It hovers around 450 in places like shatt and during 25man raids, but it occasionally does peak at quite a bit over 500ms.

While fishing in silmyr lake I've even seen it drop to 280ms :)
 
off topic but aimed @ h0ll0w...my lowest latt was 220ms this weekend, i was grinding in felwood, i took loads of screenies :)
 
2009! Yikes thats forecast planning of note! I am just trying to get through these last 2.5 weeks of work so I can settle down to some good endgame content.

On the other note:

Webafrica Unshaped on a 384k line sees me with 300 - 500ms (Bit higher in the cities). I managed to run 3 pc's each playing WoW with an increase of around 50 - 100ms in my latency. Not bad at all.
 
Regardless of how many ppl are or will be using it its still going to have positive effects in pricing/speeds/latency all of that is going to change, atm theyre cramming a whole country through a Sat3 cable, in 2009 it will be a whole country crammed into the equivilent of 11 Sat3 cables.
 
latency is not depend on the speed of light as much as routing...every 'hop' is what increases ur latency...if there was an ISp who specifically routed to wow servers we would see a decrease in latency...I assume being with the same ISP as Blizzard would make thing much more num nums:D
 
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