Thats because the zones are all stored on your computer...the only info sent
over the net when you zone is what zone you are going into and where
everything in the zone should be put. This is much like in Quake2, where
all maps are in your computer, but the .ent files can change with each
server you join.
Taluvil
----- Original Message -----
From: Jones, Brian <brian.jones@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 4:45 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Graphics/Bandwidth (this is long and relatively tec
hnical, you've been warned)
> From: "Jones, Brian" <brian.jones@...>
>
> 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.
>
>
> > ----------
> > 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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