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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Higher Game on January 13, 2008, 05:05:09 pm

Title: Secret lag?
Post by: Higher Game on January 13, 2008, 05:05:09 pm

Sometimes I am on a server with low ping for me (40-60), but everyone else has 200+ and they accuse me of making them all lag. Are they just jealous that my connection is so much better, or can the ping numbers actually get reversed somehow?

Title: Re: Secret lag?
Post by: Lava Croft on January 13, 2008, 05:19:35 pm

No, your lag has no influence on the lag of others. Mostly. I guess there are problably some totally exceptional cases where what I just said isn't true, but I don't have the motivation to think them up.

Title: Re: Secret lag?
Post by: Shadowgandor on January 13, 2008, 06:03:59 pm

on Z|R Chicago, when a european who already has a bad connection connects to the server, it sometimes causes lag afterwards, even if he has +/- 400 ping, which is bad but I've seen worse.
I've seen servers slowing down to nothing because of a person joining with ping of 300. How it works, no clue :P

Title: Re: Secret lag?
Post by: David on January 16, 2008, 01:38:49 pm

Its because the server can't handle that many people, and craps out.

Title: Re: Secret lag?
Post by: Lava Croft on January 16, 2008, 11:21:36 pm

Quote from: David on January 16, 2008, 01:38:49 pm

Its because the server can't handle that many people, and craps out.

Exactly. Clients in Tremulous cannot make other clients lag with their shitty ping. Tremulous is not a 15 year old RTS-game.