Ping on German servers

[Oblique.]

Playing with high ping is not as bad as you may think. I can play almost as well on GER as I can on USA servers (sometimes catching and hammerfly is weird though). Be sure to use antiping.

[deen]

That's normal. You can either ignore it or only enable antiping when the other player is in freeze.
bind x toggle cl_antiping 0 1

[Chairn]

USD can't break the physics rules...

[deen]

Better use those 10,000 USD to get more players on USA and CAN

[kamillentee]

USD can't break the physics rules...

USA is about 8000 km away from Germany.So theoretically there is ping 27 possible. Thats quit good

Ye I know it would not happen because of several other reasons than physics

[deen]

USA is about 8000 km away from Germany.So theoretically there is ping 27 possible. Thats quit good

Ping is the latency to send a packet there AND get the answer. Optical fiber cables are used, which only achieve about 200.000 km/s. So that's 40 ms in one direction, 40 ms back, makes 80 ms in total for 8000 km. Actual ping from DDNet GER to a server in New York: 84 ms. (In truth New York is only 6000 km away, but there is never a perfect route and the signal has to be retransmitted often throughout the ocean.) So our connection looks just fine.

Some people DO invest a few millions to get a bit better ping though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... nds-faster

When it opens in 2013, Project Express will be the fastest cable across the Atlantic, reducing the time it takes data to travel round-trip between New York and London to 59.6 milliseconds from the current top speed of 64.8 milliseconds, according to Hibernia Atlantic. Those five milliseconds might not seem like a big deal, but to the handful of electronic trading firms that will have exclusive access to the cable, it will be a huge advantage.

[kamillentee]

Well did not thought about the "pong" of the ping and that the speed is actually that "slow".

btw I expected youll write a post here deen after i wrote mine