Pig Of The Hut
Day 0 Phenomenal Dr. Fate and Darkseid player
Thanks manI'm still listening to it but I think a good idea for making sure their connection is decent before playing is to have them go to pingtest.net and select Atlanta, GA on the map. Then look at their ping. If it's over 100 ms, i'd say that is unacceptable, IMO. I personally wouldn't want to do anything over 50 ms though, if you feel like you can be picky enough. Also, selecting Atlanta is important because the distance is a big factor for some people. Having them ping a server close to them doesn't mean too much, pinging an Atlanta server will give a much better idea of what the actual latency would be comperable to. For example, my connection right now gives 7 ms ping for connection to Chicago, while it gives 24 ms for connection to Atlanta. While connections won't be the same as the server used for these tests, using the Atlanta location should help give a decent approximation.
Down/Up speeds not so important for online gaming. My college dorm had the best connection for online gaming i've had ever used, and it had less than 1 MB Down/Up. I played WoW Arena seriously at the time and I had the lowest ping of anyone during those days.
So my suggestion for this, if you have it implemented, is to have the prospective players:
1) Go to pingtest.net
2) Select Atlanta, GA as the server
3) Run the test
4) Post the results
P.S. I have a degree in Network Technologies that I don't use for my job.
AK Pig Of The Hut
Really appreciate the info and response