Off topic--V.90 and latency. Just when you think you have
your dream machine (no I did not assemble it myself) still
you are disappointed...here is the story:
I tried battle.net (Online multiplayer for StarCraft) for the
first time last night... Battlenet gives a rating for each
player's connection speed--specifically the latency (I think).
I am pretty sure that is what it is having asked about it
in one of the chat areas. I was very disappointed to find
that I was 4Red, not many players have such a low rating,
there were a smattering of yellow, and quite a few 2Greens.
Red is bad, green is good.
Having gone out and got myself that new computer, with what I
beleive to be a v.90 modem (drivers show v.90), and connecting
through AT&T Worldnet with a X2 number, this is very disappointing.
There seem to be some things you can do to speed up your connection,
I've played with some registry settings (through a shareware
interface) and that seemed to speed downloads up by altering
the size of packets (?), but latency seems to have little to do
with all that, and more to do with your ISP and the quality of
the line.
I'll seed the the StarCraft thread on usenet with my question,
and the battle.net tech support thread and report back if I
find any useful information, any thoughts from the folks here on
SI would be much appreciated--I'd rather not have to leave
Worldnet to get this fixed, surely that is not the cure. |
