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03/25/09(Wed)01:42 No.29016673 
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 >>29016049
For education purposes:
Lets
just say we have a perfect connection going as fast as possible (light
speed) with unlimited bandwidth. Even then you would have to expect a
latency of 100ms.
Now, in reality, we don't have connections
that go the speed of light, our connections are many orders of
magnitude slower. Even fiber optics are at least three orders of
magnitude slower, because the light is reflected millions of time
within the wire.
With today's best technology you can expect a
50ms delay from the time you send a package to the time it is received
by the router. Then that package is extracted, the computer will render
the command into the game, prepare the next frame, compress and encode
that frame, send it back to you, then your receiver will decode that
frame where it is displayed on your screen.
In other words
you're not going to play games without some major input lag, and that
lag is only going to get worse depending on your distance from the
server. I'd say expect a 150~300ms input delay on that alone.
If
you're using an lcd monitor add another 25~50ms delay on top of that,
and if you're using a wireless mouse an additional 30~50ms delay. I
just don't see people getting used to that kind of delay on their input.
Also pic related, it's bound to happen. |
