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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by yardstick on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:34PM (#34396129)
Yes. Most people back in 2001 were not using fibre. Dial-up, DSL, etc are all much higher latency. In Dial-up you are easily talking at least 100ms slower, if not a lot more.
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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by mmh0000 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:39PM (#34396170)
Ah. How I would have killed for a 100ms ping back in my 56k modem days. My average ping on any Quake2 server was 250-300ms.

It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.

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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by bbarnett on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:27PM (#34396462)
It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.

That's because 2sec of ping is used to request 124 fonts, each using one char.

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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by scaramanga on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:00AM (#34397346)
man, from my memory, if you were getting 250, you were incredibly lucky and probably lived close to the exchange :)

300-350 was more the norm for where i was.

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