Unreal Tournament 2004 (ProAsm)

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I was playing on the SAIX servers right now

Pressing F6, my ping was said to be around 220-260
Pressing F1 around the same
Pressing ESC (to leave the game, you get another list of players)

My Ping there was around 59-60

It was actually very playable and got one or two moments where it spiked, but I kicked ass. Ask hArth [:D]
 
mmm I dont know about the other list of players when you press Esc.
Btw a quick exit - bring down the console and just type exit [:)]

Something you can try and I believe you can read Base Station 82 ?
Shield your modem in such a way that you logon to Base Station 82 and then go test your pings on UT2004.

It would be interesting what you find.


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Shield? like point my pringles to the tower? I could, was connecting through 66

or shield like in tin foil?
 
Do whatever you have to do but you must connect to 82 and NOT 66 [;)]


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Connecting to 82 @ 23% i never get sub 300ms, although when listing the servers, the saix server was at 170ms

If you press escape and click on game, there is where you'll see other ping times, these ping times usually averaged 99ms

F6, normally about 322ms and packet loss, making it a bit jumpy

connected back to tower 66 at round about 25% + and got pings sub 300, actually, never really above 300ms, escape thingy, 59ms

Why did I have to test 82?
 
Just a theory I'm working on.
The 82 you connected to is that the main Sentech Tower at Honeydew ?


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my theory is, the closer to the central servers you connect to the ***ker your lag


its like in that alien movie.. [:p]
 
Sounds like the lag is coming from the backhaul, and not the client connections??

Proasm, have you guys ever tested ping times across the microwave links between the towers?

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No not yet flash as I dont have the app to do that but am getting it soon.
According to the "specs" on that equipment its around 2 ms but I want to see that 1st hand.
Problem also is here in Durban we also have the IS link to Jhb and that alone adds 22 ms so regardless what we eventually achieve, Dbn will always be a minimum of 22 ms higher than Jhb [V]

Tests here have shown thus far that I'm having the opposite results to what Noone is getting.

Results to date:
MyWireless 512/128k
Game server Mweb UT2004 Demo Server.
Download test site: tucows.is.co.za
Upload test: Ftp to karoo.mweb.co.za

Test 1
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Approx 11 pm.

P4 - 2.6 gig - 1 gig memory - GF4 ti4200 - Tower 102 (extended cell)

Without antenna - 24% signal
Ingame pings average 260 spiking badly to 1000+
Pinging the server 10 times with 128 characters = 180 ms ave with 25% packet loss
Downloads erratic, hovering between 17 and 38 KB/sec (1 file)
Uploads terrible - never get above 8 KB/sec

With antenna - 50% signal
Ingame pings average 150 spiking occasionally to 400
Pinging the server 10 times with 128 characters = 120 ms ave with 15% packet loss
Downloads fair, hovering between 25 and 44 KB/sec (1 file)
Uploads fair - around 12 KB/sec

Test 2
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Approx 07:00 am

Celeron 1.7 gig - 256 megs memory - std 8 meg Graphics - Tower 60 (Main HUB)

No antenna - 30% signal
Ingame pings average 116 - smooth gameplay with no spiking
Pinging the server 10 times with 128 characters = 106 ms ave with 3% packet loss
Downloads good, sits between 48 and 62 KB/sec (1 file)
Uploads ok - 15 KB/sec


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Hmmm very interesting. I ping around 120-220 so would be interesting to see what my pings would be like if I can get it boosted like Pro's Im also in honeydew or right next to it and get about 22% signal.


Is there a place were one can go and get the whole antenna set up yet? Im PC'less at the moment should get my new beasty in about 2-3 weeks so ill post some results then if I can get the antenna sourced.

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Must think happy thoughts about the antenna!!!
 
What application do you need to test the latencys?

How about I pop round with ye-ole-linux-laptop? :P

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Warning: Use with extreme caution."
 
I'm in olivedale and would have thought I could connect to both the 4-ways Golf Park tower, the Honydew tower or the one on top of Mintek. Getting my patch antenna from Fastcomm on Friday, but from the looks of things it's not a directional antenna so I'm guessing I just grab the strongest signal. Is that the case?

I'm also presumeing the link to IS comes out of the Golf Park building right? If I can get hold of that tower then things would be sweet as latency can be a real killer when it comes to voice (especially unpredicatble spikes).
 
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It all goes thru Hondeydew... me thinks. That's where Infosat has their stuff.

But from the traceroute.org sites it's clear that the problem lies with the wireless connection. Let's face it 3G was developed for voice. Probably more a master/slave or token ring protocol than a ethernet protocol. i.e. wait your turn.
 
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