430ms Ping times to werner.planetside.com: Will I be able to play?

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 12:41 AM

Greetings everyone. I'm looking at getting Planetside, but I'm stuck on 56K dialup in Yerevan Armenia.

I can get consistent 430ms ping times to werner.planetside.com. Any chance I will be able to play Planetside without major frustration?

I'd be fine with playing a support class (medic, engineer, etc.) as long as I could do it sucessfully with this level of latency. I want to be able to play with people...single player everything is getting pretty old.

Is there any hope for me?

PS: if you have any cert/role recommendations for a HPB like myself, please feel free to chime in...

HawkEye · 2003-06-25, 12:50 AM

ur gonna have a lot of lag on 56k. thats all i have to say.

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 12:58 AM

Oh, forgot to mention that my system should be fine for running PS and should not be the source of any lag.

Barton @ 400mhzFSB x 11 (2200) with 1 gig of DDR ram, ATI 9700 Pro, blah blah blah.

I've tried to optimize my system for 56K gaming, since there is NOTHING else here (well I could get Satellite, but latency gets worse).

Heck, I even got two modems in my machine, a USR Performance Pro configured for low latency (V.34, No Error/No Compression, etc).

The other is configured for web browsing (V.44 compression), etc.

Packet loss is usually not a problem. My ISP is surprisingly good.

Let me know what you think!! I don�t want to get my hopes up if it�s not going to happen (or order a $50 that I can�t play).

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 01:01 AM

Originally posted by HawkEye
ur gonna have a lot of lag on 56k. thats all i have to say.

The Eternal · 2003-06-25, 01:02 AM

My Heart goes out to you, and my sympathy of coarse

MilitantB0B · 2003-06-25, 01:02 AM

I don't trust the in game ping number. I ahve cable and it says I have 5304, I kid you not. The funny thing is I have absolutley zero problems with lag. Maybe thats just a me problem though.

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 01:14 AM

Originally posted by MilitantB0B
I don't trust the in game ping number. I ahve cable and it says I have 5304, I kid you not. The funny thing is I have absolutley zero problems with lag. Maybe thats just a me problem though.

I don't have the game yet, so these ping numbers come from me typing: ping -n 100 werner.planetside.com

I did a traceroute, and it looks fine until I hit a different Backbone in the UK. I'm sub 200 ms all the way to the UK, then POW, it shoots up 200 more as I head to the Werner server (looks like it's hosted in the Netherlands??)

I get 98 ms ping times to local servers, thanks to many long nights trying out different init strings with my modem.

I guess I will order the game and try it out...

Any one have any recommendation for certs? Are vehicals more prone to lag problems, or less?

MilitantB0B · 2003-06-25, 01:27 AM

Originally posted by OpenSent
I don't have the game yet, so these ping numbers come from me typing: ping -n 100 werner.planetside.com

I did a traceroute, and it looks fine until I hit a different Backbone in the UK. I'm sub 200 ms all the way to the UK, then POW, it shoots up 200 more as I head to the Werner server (looks like it's hosted in the Netherlands??)

I get 98 ms ping times to local servers, thanks to many long nights trying out different init strings with my modem.

I guess I will order the game and try it out...

Any one have any recommendation for certs? Are vehicals more prone to lag problems, or less?

Flying vehicles are prone to lag. I would recomend an infiltrator, loads of fun and you are normaly on the outskirts of the fighting killing straglers (distance from the fight=less lag)

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 01:43 AM

Originally posted by MilitantB0B
Flying vehicles are prone to lag. I would recomend an infiltrator, loads of fun and you are normaly on the outskirts of the fighting killing straglers (distance from the fight=less lag)

OUTSTANDING! Just the kind of advice I was looking for.

What would starting certs look like for an infiltrator?

Do ground vehicals have lag problems?

I will rule out flying vehicals for now.

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 02:05 AM

Never mind about the infiltrator cert stuff. I found the guide here on the site.

I've got a friend who will be getting the game and has broadband. If we wanted to take a ground vehical, who would be the best choice for driver/gunner? Would we want the guy with the lowest lag to be the gunner, or driver.

malikai3k · 2003-06-25, 02:42 AM

lowest lag = driver, mmm roadkill goodness

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 05:08 AM

Any other recommendations for HPB players? AV/AA infantry, Tanker, Harrasser, etc?

Smaug · 2003-06-25, 05:19 AM

Sniper. You are usually on the outskirts, looking in at the battle. Sometimes I get lag, but not alot. Whenever I go in the battle with my gauss though... sometimes its really bad, and can't even see people :P. The only times you'll lag bad with sniping is when you are getting besieged on a tower or something, and you are trying to snipe on the roof, and thats only if there are like 3 plus squads attacking the tower.

OpenSent · 2003-06-25, 05:27 AM

Originally posted by Smaug
Sniper. You are usually on the outskirts, looking in at the battle. Sometimes I get lag, but not alot. Whenever I go in the battle with my gauss though... sometimes its really bad, and can't even see people :P. The only times you'll lag bad with sniping is when you are getting besieged on a tower or something, and you are trying to snipe on the roof, and thats only if there are like 3 plus squads attacking the tower.

Great idea. Thanks!