My friend is on a cable modem and I am on a modem that does not connect
faster than 26400. 8 times out of 10 I will zone faster. His computer is a
233 with 64 meg and mine is a 350 with 128 meg. That is your difference in
zone time. The only time my zone time exceeds 15-35 seconds is when I have
a bad connection (alot of PL) or there are alot of people in the zone.
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> From: John Kim[SMTP:kim@...]
> Reply To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:28 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] Graphics/Bandwidth (this is long and
> relatively technical, you've been warned)
>
> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> Also:
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, G.W. Willman, IV wrote:
> >
> > Just because I was interested, I did a little network watching: zoning
> > generally spews out an odd 300k of data each time for normal density
> zones,
> > high density ones (NRO in particular) are closer to 700k. You might be
> > tempted to think wow, with a DSL I can zone in 10 secs! But you also
> have
> > the overhead associated with loading the new zone data from disk, which
> is
> > time consuming in and of itself. If you have a new computer, chances
> are
>
> I suspect most of the time to zone is spent uncompressing that
> data being sent from the server. This was also the case for
> Diablo - copying the CD to hard disk only helped to a point,
> but upgrading the CPU helped tremendously.
>
> FWIW, on my cable modem and 450 Celeron (OC) with 128MB RAM,
> it takes from 15-35 seconds to zone.
>
> > Now, on to ping. Its just not that great of an indication. Speaking
> from
> > experience (I'm a network programming and sysadmin), opening a socket is
> FAR
> > more reliable. I've got a really quick and dirty pong program which
> does
> > just this as well as dumping out oodles of other interesting network
> info.
>
> However, comparing ping times for the same route (assuming
> relatively constant Internet traffic) using two different
> modems *will* tell you the relative performance of those two
> modems, since the times across all the other hops should stay
> roughly the same.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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