<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top">Geostationary satellite link, 550ms rtt delay before adding in rest of path. You'd be surprised how many online games don't work<br/><br/>Deathmatches? Ha.</td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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Robert Hudson <hudrob@gmail.com>; <br>
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grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>; <br>
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Re: [AusNOG] Latency sensisitive apps <br>
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<td valign="top"><div dir="ltr">On 31 August 2013 11:51, grenville armitage <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:garmitage@swin.edu.au" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">garmitage@swin.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Online games?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You'd be surprised just how much latency online games can cope with. The "net code" in many of them is very good at not only dealing with latency, but also dropped/out of order packets.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I play a game where I regularly have ping times of 200ms or higher - compared to people who have sub 50ms pings - and I don't think I actually suffer THAT much for it (instead, my poor record is due to the fact that I just suck).</div>
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