It's ENTIRELY CPU related. I recently upgraded my X2 connection which
averaged about 41-48K (of course that's upstream only 31K downstream) to
SDSL at 768K (!!!!)
There is ABSOLUTELY no difference in zoning times in Everquest. So don't
get your hopes up that getting that nifty cable modem, DSL Line (or playing
on that T1 at work when your boss isn't looking) is gonna erase the annoying
zone time.
There is one difference though... In the analog world I saw that anything
over about 5-7 pct packet loss would create lag. At the ping times I'm
getting now (averages around 125 - occasionally I see two digits pings and
sometimes close to 200) Even packet loss of close to 20 pct doesn't really
cause noticeable lag...
The biggest advantage of course - when it has to download a patch - the time
download time is basically instantaneous.
Slyde
----- Original Message -----
From: Kimes, Dean W. <Dean_Kimes@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to KABOING
??*
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
> Odd, could be cpu speed as well I know my neighbor has a slow box but I
have
> a 450. Still nearly double the ping making it an extra minute or so does
> not surprise me. An extra minute per zone would still add 10 minutes or
> more.
>
> Kitasi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naeeldar [mailto:jackal@...]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 2:57 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to
> KABOING ??*
>
>
> From: "Naeeldar" <jackal@...>
>
> I guess I play on a 28.8 as a matter of fact and it takes me a mere minute
> to zone with a average of 268 ping.
>
> Naeeldar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimes, Dean W. <Dean_Kimes@...>
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com' <eqbards@onelist.com>
> Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:11 PM
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to KABOING
> ??*
>
>
> >From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
> >
> >Maybe with DSL. It takes me 2-3 minutes just to zone and I have a 56k
> modem
> >due to having a nearly 500 ping, which Brad recently said was within the
> >average range (200-500). 9 zones takes 18-27 minutes just for zoning.
My
> >neighbor who plays on a 33.6 modem takes 4 minutes to zon on average.
Now
> >that's painful.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Naeeldar [mailto:jackal@...]
> >Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 2:02 PM
> >To: eqbards@onelist.com
> >Subject: Re: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to
> >KABOING ??*
> >
> >
> >From: "Naeeldar" <jackal@...>
> >
> >Why would the trip from Qeynos to Freeport take 45 minutes? With selo's
you
> >can easily make it in 20.
> >
> >Naeeldar
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) <kblair@...>
> >To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
> >Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:07 AM
> >Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Hey this sounded interesting.. *Time to
KABOING
> >??*
> >
> >
> >>From: "Blair, Keith (Keith Blair)" <kblair@...>
> >>
> >>> I think the melee/hybrid/caster thread needs to
> >>> be kaboinged.. now. And the bind thread should IMO
> >>> go the same way, but first I would like to
> >>
> >>If you have an opinion on it, which you do - then it doesn't need to be
> >>"kabonged" after you get your opinion noted. Everyone should be free to
> >>speak on the issue.
> >>
> >>> If there wasent a penalty like this the game would
> >>> turn into something very boring.
> >>
> >>And boy oh boy it's such exciting fun running back to
> >>your corpse. Yay!
> >>
> >>> With selo's we are pretty well off for travelling and
> >>> giving bards bind will seriusly overpower unless it was
> >>> made useless by giving it penalties.
> >>
> >>Selo's gives us a good way of GETTING somewhere. It
> >>doesn't even come close to comparing to gate.
> >>
> >>I'd be interested in seeing the results of a caster
> >>and a bard racing from Freeport to Qeynos and back.
> >>I can see it now. Caster pays 1pp for SOW and nearly
> >>keeps up with bard. Bard arrives in Qeynos let's
> >>be generous and say 10 minutes before wizard does.
> >>Bard heads back and gleefully waves at wizard still
> >>on his way to Qeynos. Wizard gets to Qeynos. Wizard
> >>gates back to Freeport and laughs it up for 45 minutes
> >>while the bard is still running.
> >>
> >>Or better yet, high level bard & high level wizard in
> >>the same race. Bard takes off a runnin'.. Wizard does
> >>his fancy teleport to the Karana's. Runs rest of way
> >>to Qeynos. Gates back to Freeport. Bard arrives in West
> >>Commons on his way to Qeynos.
> >>
> >>Yeah, Selo's makes up for all of that.
> >>
> >>>
> >
> >>
>
> >