On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Daniel P. Sniderman wrote:

>
> 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...

I'm on a cable modem. Normally I get 0-0.5% PL and zoning
takes 15-40 seconds. When I get 10-15% PL, it can take over a
minute, sometimes two.

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John H. Kim
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