ping

[defect530]

Is there a way to improve ping im using a wireless modem and its kinda stormy:mad:

[kwisatz_haderach]

Get closer to the internet /jk

There is very interesting thread here (http://community.enemyterritory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31287) that might help you

[Edosz]

ping is just a number.

[KeFeaR]

Nope, more than a number.

[Don Zardeone]

Nothing on a gaming pc should be wireless. Not the keyboard, not the mouse, not the internet connection, nothing.

Run a wire from the modem to your computer. And turn off wireless, it kills braincells.

[whiteaden]

Nope, more than a number.

as long as it aint 3 numbers, I'll do okay :D

[Thlump]

Well, as long as the number is less than 300, anything is possible except for getting headshots with the pistol or blaster.

[BobMem]

The connection between your wireless router and computer is far faster than your internet connection so shouldn't really affect your gameplay. The trouble I have is my laptop seems to overheat after a while which causes framerate to drop to single figures and ping to go through the roof, I'd rather it was the other way round!
BTW, it's quite hard to shoot someone when you're only getting 5 frames per second!

[Don Zardeone]

The connection between your wireless router and computer is far faster than your internet connection so shouldn't really affect your gameplay. The trouble I have is my laptop seems to overheat after a while which causes framerate to drop to single figures and ping to go through the roof, I'd rather it was the other way round!
BTW, it's quite hard to shoot someone when you're only getting 5 frames per second!

Proof please.

If the router sits next to the computer maybe. But there's walls everywhere. My router is about 15 meters away with a wall and stuff between it. Wireless means I add another 20-80 ms to my ping + I get headaches from it.
(Tested long time ago for Guild Wars, never checked for ETQW)

Besides, wireless is bad for your health.

[Basiley]

switch to 803.11b narrowband BPSK mode can help seriously from time to time, in high EMI enviroment.
microwave owens, portable radios, PC peripherals - and others[not always well designed to EMI avoidance] operates mostly in 2.4, 5, 50-60 GHz bands.

*can't wait for full-power UWB implementation[not as bluetooth competitor[current state] but as Wi-Fi and Wi-Max[IEE 802.11 and 802.16] suscessor*

[BobMem]

A wise man I know who did some experimenting with extended wireless transmission for small communities when at uni told me the following:

BobMem:
What sort of latency would you expect between a computer and a router 15m apart with one wall in between? And are there any proven or unproven health risks to wireless?!


Wise Man BobMem knows:
Round trip times (ie. the time it takes to send a packet of data to a remote node and receive a reply, ala ping) should be only a few milliseconds, no matter what the distance to access point is. ipconfig will give you the IP address of the gateway, and in most small-scale installations this will also be the access point so pinging that should give you a good measurement.
As for any health risks - there are no proven risks. Obviously you can't easily prove there aren't any without a huge long term study, but as the maximum power allowed to be emitted in the UK for 2.4GHz WLAN is 100mW, and this decreases with the square of the distance, it's hardly a microwave oven (although the frequency is in the same band).

Hope this helps.

[whiteaden]

why hasn't anyone said Pong?

http://www.pedestrian.tv/uploads/images/blogs/484766c46eddf/pong.png

[Don Zardeone]

It has been proven.

Put me in a house with or without wifi.
Whether I get a migraine or not will determine whether there is wifi or not.

also here:
http://www.bioinitiative.org

[ancient]

well if you are able todo that in a double blind test you might be *VERY* interesting to science, since no-ONE ever passed this so far.

[Basiley]

well if you are able todo that in a double blind test you might be *VERY* interesting to science, since no-ONE ever passed this so far.

radiophysics - cool science discipline, as cool as nuke physics or organic chemstry.
keep that in mind, choosing university[2 learn].

[Don Zardeone]

well if you are able todo that in a double blind test you might be *VERY* interesting to science, since no-ONE ever passed this so far.

Been there, done that. Problem is it takes a while before the headaches start kicking in. I'm apparently hypersensitive to something stuff, had a weird name. I have this weird strain of something dna stuff gene something which also causes me to get a very long migraine whenever I wash my hair.
Apparently this is supposed to be isolated to some area in india where people have this a lot.

A few years ago, when the first home wifi things started to become mainstream and installed by default by ISPs, I got a massive neverending headache, weird illusions (like I'm tiny and the world is huge).
The only thing that cured it was turning off the wifis around me. I was in wifis 24/7, sleep, work, everywhere. I managed to get rid of the sleep ones and I only work in places where everything is wired (and security is higher anyway).
I'm building up a tolerance for it (I hope, been getting less headaches) but I've been investigating this for the past couple of years now.

Anyway, wifi melts braincells, stop using it.
I don't have any solid proof myself as this isn't my field but do what the CEO of your ISP or phone company does. Turn off all wifi.
My ISP's boss is located in a big tower place. There's no wifi allowed for the upper floors where his offices are and it's not because of security reasons.

[Kalbuth]

The connection between your wireless router and computer is far faster than your internet connection so shouldn't really affect your gameplay.
The quality of the Wifi connection is not the same at all, though.
Many more external factors that can influence quality of transmission and cause packet loss, force retransmission and such

[Basiley]

altarnate way - enforce 802.3a mode only(5 GHz) with BPSK narrow-band again[not all device support this too].