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Post by Tuism on Mar 1, 2012 4:30:45 GMT -5
After messing about with 3G signals and optimising the 3G modem placement, is there a way to further reduce your ping? I've heard of stuff like Battleping which only reduces ping for specific games like Rift, WoW, Lineage 2, etc. But are there general things that you can run for more general Ping reduction? I'm guessing no but throwing the thought out there  |
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Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2012 5:20:15 GMT -5
What is your ping? To what server are you testing?
I dont know where their servers are, but to a US site (download.cnet.com) I get 330ms, and to a UK site (www.plusnet.co.uk) 230ms from africa.
Pete
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Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2012 5:20:39 GMT -5
Are you expecting better than those values from South africa?
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Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2012 5:29:16 GMT -5
the ping is the time it takes to go there and back, so assuming their servers were directly opposite to your internet connection at home (I have no idea where they are) then just take the amount of miles around the planet and divide by the speed of light:
24906/186282.397 = approx 130ms
So the fastest it could ever be according to physics is around 130ms, but then there is overhead caused by routers in between, processing time etc, so expecting anything below 200ms is unreasonable until cables are dug underground deep enough to reduce the physical distance that light would need to travel. If you dug a cable through the centre of the earth to the other side it would be only about 12720, thus reducing theoretical ping to about 70ms, in which case you might get around 90ms of latency in the year 2040.
Pete
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Post by Tuism on Mar 1, 2012 5:44:32 GMT -5
Nice trace, if I remember right, gave me values around 300 to Netherlands. I don't really know which one I was supposed to look, I used the IP that you gave me on the 3G thread. I'll let you know when I get home to test, but I was just wondering if there's some kind of software that works for this, like making sure the routing is best-route or something. And yeah across the center of the earth even Brandon Fraser won't be able to do that |
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Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2012 5:50:39 GMT -5
No there is not a way to improve the speed of light using software, and routing is handled by your isp so should be choosing the most effective path already. I doubt there is anything you can do, but you can improve your throughput using vpn's and vj compression, but that is different to latency.
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Post by Tuism on Mar 1, 2012 6:09:52 GMT -5
So how does the thing called battleping work?
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Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2012 6:28:03 GMT -5
I have never heard of it, but it sounds like bullshit if your isp is not shaping in some way. IE: This could work if your ISP shapes gaming traffic, but not encrypted traffic, which is unlikely since torrents etc can encrypt within the software. It appears to be nothing more than an excrypted VPN or proxy service which I alluded to can improve your throughput in the previous posts.
Battleping doesnt describe how it works, but from smoothpings site:
"How does this work?
When you launch the Smoothping client, it creates a secure shell connection (SSH tunnel), streamlining the packet handling (the data that is sent) by forcing it out immediately instead of bundling each packet with additional data packets. By not having to wait for additional information, it cuts down the latency (ping) considerably based upon your geographical location to the server."
Sounds like garbage to me, but hey your welcome to try.
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Post by Diomedia on Mar 1, 2012 7:50:30 GMT -5
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