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So I’ve been going to a local CoD4 (yes, old) LAN party every Tuesday at some high rise lawyer office, it’s kinda neat, we set up two adjescent board rooms and go at it. Tea, Coffee, cookies, the works. Very classy.
But there is lag.. and I seem to be the only one that notices it (everyone else is a so-so player so they probably don’t realize what’s going on). There is a clear delay between some machines, sometimes a full second (I can hear it when the airstrike call comes from the laptop speakers of a buddy sitting next to me, and I only hear it in my headphones a second later)
I don’t know how CoD calculates lag, but everyone was sitting with pings in the 45-60 range.. for me this is crazy! I get better connection through internets at home.
Each boardroom has a hub (could be a router) that the people in that room plug into, the hubs are then plugged into wall jack and I guess the two board rooms communicate over the office lines.
Before I make suggestions to them, I’d like to get some advice as to what could be creating the lag.
1. Should the fastest computer run the game?
2. Does the ethernet hardware of each laptop matter?
3. How much do the qulaity of the cables and hubs matter? I have a feeling these are all 4-5 years old, if not more, the switches look very basic walmart type.
4. How much is it affecting us that we’re jacked into the wall plugs, would we be better off connecting the two hubs/switches by a direct line?
5. Is there something else I’m nto aware of that could be eating away at us?
Please and thank you,
But there is lag.. and I seem to be the only one that notices it (everyone else is a so-so player so they probably don’t realize what’s going on). There is a clear delay between some machines, sometimes a full second (I can hear it when the airstrike call comes from the laptop speakers of a buddy sitting next to me, and I only hear it in my headphones a second later)
I don’t know how CoD calculates lag, but everyone was sitting with pings in the 45-60 range.. for me this is crazy! I get better connection through internets at home.
Each boardroom has a hub (could be a router) that the people in that room plug into, the hubs are then plugged into wall jack and I guess the two board rooms communicate over the office lines.
Before I make suggestions to them, I’d like to get some advice as to what could be creating the lag.
1. Should the fastest computer run the game?
2. Does the ethernet hardware of each laptop matter?
3. How much do the qulaity of the cables and hubs matter? I have a feeling these are all 4-5 years old, if not more, the switches look very basic walmart type.
4. How much is it affecting us that we’re jacked into the wall plugs, would we be better off connecting the two hubs/switches by a direct line?
5. Is there something else I’m nto aware of that could be eating away at us?
Please and thank you,
