Re: Cable Modem & Internet Gaming Question

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From: Michael Marion
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00

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Dude Love wrote:
> 
> Latency Spikes? What are you smoking? I've been on Shaw@Home for over a year
> now and my Quake 2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament ping times are amazing!!!
> I average a 50ms ping to any good server I get on........

He's not smoking anything.  Here in San Diego the Road Runner system hasn't been
worth a shit for weeks during evenings and weekends.  Look at my data
http://miguelito.org/RR/index.html if you want to see what latency is.

> If your having problems.....call your provider...

Many of us had, over and over.  They either don't care, or don't have the
money/talent to fix it.

--
Mike Marion -  Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare
at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'
                                               -- Linus Torvalds

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