via Smed: Beta starts Monday at 2PM PDT

[IHateMMOs]

By now, I've learned not to trust Smed when it comes to dates.

[WiteBeam]

[–]soapyluggage 19 points 1 hour ago
How long do you think it will take (if everything goes as planned) for everyone who has twitter/PC gamer keys to get in the beta?
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[–]j_smedley[S] 23 points 1 hour ago
maybe as long as 2-3 weeks but it depends on how smoothly things go

[Steambot]

Originally Posted by WiteBeam

[–]soapyluggage 19 points 1 hour ago
How long do you think it will take (if everything goes as planned) for everyone who has twitter/PC gamer keys to get in the beta?
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[–]j_smedley[S] 23 points 1 hour ago
maybe as long as 2-3 weeks but it depends on how smoothly things go

Well, shoot.

[Sturmhardt]

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

By now, I've learned not to trust Smed when it comes to dates.

Replace "dates" with "everything" and you are better off...

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Scotsh

No, simple physics.

[sheldon]
Distance between London and New York = 5576 km according to http://www.distancefromto.net/distan...on/to/New+York

The speed of light, being the fastet possible speed for the transmission of information is 299792 km/s.

Just for the sake of easier calculation and considering there are shorter distances between other points of the UK and the US:
use distance = 5000km
and
speed of light = 300000km/s.

Then light would travel the distance in 16,6667 ms.
Ergo a ping of 12ms is impossible without disproving the theory of relativity.
[/sheldon]

You are probably right, but tbh we are still looking at the same ballpark, be it 12 or even 18ms

[Lazaruz]

Perfect timing! PS1 subscription cycle ends on Wednesday.

[NoDachi]

Originally Posted by Scotsh

No, simple physics.

[sheldon]
Distance between London and New York = 5576 km according to http://www.distancefromto.net/distan...on/to/New+York

The speed of light, being the fastet possible speed for the transmission of information is 299792 km/s.

Just for the sake of easier calculation and considering there are shorter distances between other points of the UK and the US:
use distance = 5000km
and
speed of light = 300000km/s.

Then light would travel the distance in 16,6667 ms.
Ergo a ping of 12ms is impossible without disproving the theory of relativity.
[/sheldon]

You're also forgetting, you're thinking of the speed of light through a vacuum.

The actual real speed of light bouncing down that fiberoptic cable will be much slower, about 35% slower at best. Not to mention additional delays due to equipment switching and the process of encoding and decoding the data onto the fiber.

[iburnmycd]

Originally Posted by Scotsh

No, simple physics.

[sheldon]
Distance between London and New York = 5576 km according to http://www.distancefromto.net/distan...on/to/New+York

The speed of light, being the fastet possible speed for the transmission of information is 299792 km/s.

Just for the sake of easier calculation and considering there are shorter distances between other points of the UK and the US:
use distance = 5000km
and
speed of light = 300000km/s.

Then light would travel the distance in 16,6667 ms.
Ergo a ping of 12ms is impossible without disproving the theory of relativity.
[/sheldon]

Challenge accepted!

Sent from my ADR6400L

[Tachyr]

Originally Posted by NoDachi

You're also forgetting, you're thinking of the speed of light through a vacuum.

The actual real speed of light bouncing down that fiberoptic cable will be much slower, about 35% slower at best. Not to mention additional delays due to equipment switching and the process of encoding and decoding the data onto the fiber.

You're missing some things, ping is round trip, you only accounted for one way.

So theoretical min is about 32ms, practical is much much higher given that the tcp traffic is layer 3 switched which means it is not done in optics but rather in silicon which is much more costly in terms of time.
A regular layer 3 switch hop is a couple of micro seconds and given the infrastructure to get from your home to the server and back you can easily add a substantial amount of time spent in the routing infrastructure.

[Snipergirl]

Yay! i can't wait to see twitter hate cuz of priority key people didn't get it. ha they made a big mistake. they should have started the beta let vet in and then give the priority keys to people. but obviously 80% of players have priority keys. so can't wait to see the hate yay. just saying....

[Rat]

Originally Posted by Platinumfish

If the Beta is coming out this monday when will those guys who used to play PS 1 be getting their keys?

If your a PS1 vet you will not need a key...your PS2 account should magicly activate.

[Marinealver]

I'll be waiting

[Rumblepit]

cant wait

[RRR X]

Originally Posted by Fizzgig

Check your private messages. I had a spare key so sent you it.

Have fun!

I will name my unborn child after you! XD

[Sephirex]

Originally Posted by RRR X

I will name my unborn child after you! XD

Baby Fizzgig?

Going to be the coolest kid ever.