High latency (up to 120 ms) was noted on Rainbow Six Siege, but was otherwise playable. Naruto Storm 4 was unplayable due to excessive lag. Battlefield 4 was generally playable. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition had occasional pauses but was still playable.
Ping tests from my phone give me 70-110ms on T-Mobile LTE.
@bwDraco I guess its depends all on cell reception, where the game servers are, etc. A LOT of people in my area have to use satellite/LTE for their internet, no land lines
(for comparison, my home connection, Spectrum/TWC 100/10 through a NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S, gives me 20-30 ms most of the time)
All ping tests from my end are on my phone to Google Public DNS.
Conclusion: You can use an LTE connection for console-class multiplayer gaming under typical conditions, but it isn't ideal and may not be acceptable for some games.
I used to have horrendous latency problems, most often in busier parts of Manhattan, while I was on AT&T. Their network suffers from really bad congestion problems in the densest population centers. T-Mobile is generally free of these issues.
Then again, newer phone = better LTE modem (went from Snapdragon X10 to X12) = better performance.
@JourneymanGeek I'm semi-not surprised. Ours was dormant for quite a long time. I did like the serverfault blog a lot though when they used to post cool stuff, like migrating our site and such
Let's say that I have two SIMs in my dual-SIM phone. SIM 1 is for my primary carrier (T-Mobile), but I'm in an area where I would be roaming with the data restrictions this brings (200 MB/month), so I have a regional carrier's SIM in the second slot.
If SIM 1 is set to be preferred and is roaming, would the phone automatically fall back to SIM 2?
(if this is relevant: OnePlus 3T running latest LineageOS build.)
Obviously, this is assuming that there is service from the regional carrier where the primary carrier is roaming.
@bwDraco 1. I don't have anything else other than LTE, so I use it for 100% of my gaming. I do plenty of FPS gaming. 2. 120 ms isn't "high" by any stretch. You have to be sitting on a Tier 1 backbone in a datacenter to be of the opinion that anything under 200 ms is high. Sure, 120 ms is somewhat high to your first hop, or to the nearest major city, but it's perfectly suitable for gaming.
120 ms RTT means around 8 updates per second exchanging your position and other players' positions. You can just barely perceive ticking off 8 clicks in your head per second, and it sounds like the sound of a bicycle chain while pedaling.
Also, LTE tends to have a fairly direct link to the Tier 1 after it hits the cell tower, so going long distances only tends to add "the minimum latency the backbone adds" (very little, unless it's like, USA to Japan or USA to Germany, a few extremely punishing / saturated links at certain times of day)
With some cable providers, they take a fairly suboptimal route to the Tier 1, going through many Tier 2 and 3s, so US East to US West can easily be 300+ ms. On LTE it's the nominal 80 - 100 ms cellular first hop, plus around 50 to 100 ms, so 200-ish.
Did a traceroute on my cable Internet connection. Takes me six hops to get to a Tier 1 router (205.197.232.13, XO Communications), going through some four ISP-level hops, on my way to 8.8.4.4. 12 hops (including the home router) were needed.
@bwDraco wow, I needed 17... two within my network edge (router and jetpack, <1ms each), 7 within Verizon's 66/8 and 69/8 nets, then to XO's 216.50.79.29, then another 7 hops to 8.8.4.4
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert 8.8.4.4
Tracing route to google-public-dns-b.google.com [8.8.4.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 192.168.43.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 76 ms 32 ms 123 ms 10.170.217.10
7 76 ms 36 ms 30 ms 10.164.163.90
8 156 ms 38 ms 41 ms 10.164.165.97
Once I'm past all these 10/8 LAN addresses, the next one is within Google's own network (72.14.202.156, Google).
Not too sure why, but this suggests T-Mobile is itself Tier 1 and peers directly with Google.
@bwDraco I thought Verizon peered directly with Google too; Google's strategy for ridiculously fast searches is part algorithms, part having datacenters everywhere and getting "into" ISPs' networks
like, you could tell me "There are Google servers in Verizon routing hubs" and I'd go "Yep, that makes total sense"
When you communicate with a server on the Internet, packets (at OSI layer 3) pass through a series of routers. Typically, you have one or two at the local network edge (typically your home router or gateway), several from your ISP, and several from a Tier 1 network(s). The packet then goes through the other side's ISP (which in many cases is said Tier 1 network) before it reaches the server.
3 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms 10.20.23.227
4 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms syd-gls-har-agr11-be-12.tpgi.com.au [202.7.205.13]
5 18 ms 15 ms 15 ms 203-221-3-6.tpgi.com.au [203.221.3.6]
6 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 203-219-106-250.tpgi.com.au [203.219.106.250]
7 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms 108.170.247.49
8 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms 209.85.244.15
9 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
1 157 ms 15 ms 92 ms 192.168.43.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 36 ms * 38 ms 172.22.85.164
6 33 ms 46 ms 32 ms 172.22.85.170
7 64 ms 41 ms 38 ms 172.22.85.220
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 45 ms 33 ms 39 ms 198.142.255.210
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 79 ms 38 ms 39 ms 210.49.49.153
^ LTE
@allquixotic They look like surface books... no kickstand
@bwDraco Have you tried glue yet? That was a serious suggestion.
No reason it won't work.
If you do glue it, remember, the glue goes on the outside. Not between the heatsink and CPU.
I've put my laptop on Current Branch for Business via Group Policy because of this laptop's CPU cooler issues and don't want to deal with an upgrade when this machine is so close to retirement.
@Bob I might look into this but not within these few weeks.
hi im having some issues with cpu usage i have a dedicated server and 16GB ram but php-cgi is getting high cpu usage due to that my server crashes every time. serverfault.com/questions/847342/…
@JourneymanGeek because i got nothing else to share! i just check logs and it show's that my domain is taking alot php-cgi and the traffic isn't high to shutdown the server! thats what im trying to figure it out what should be the problem or what should i need to check?
What is Stack Overflow's long-term solution for the Help Vampire problem?
Quote from article follows:
Identifying Help Vampires can be tricky, because they look like any ordinary person (or Internet user, whichever is lesser). But by closely observing an individual's behavior using this hand...
@TOWMN AT&T has already shut down 2G service here. If I set my phone to 2G only mode, I get no service at all, not even the ability to make voice calls.
i was using cloud hosting from hostgator they literally blackmail me to upgrade to dedicated :p they suspended my cloudhosting to upgrade to dedicated lol :D
they're your hosting company; your server runs in their datacenter; if they wanted to take your data they could already do that because they have physical access to it
if you don't trust them you shouldn't be doing business with them
HostGator is owned by EIG, which has a reputation for poor service. It looks like EIG's policy is to try to hide this fact from most obvious avenues that people access services through.
If you're on a limited budget: Linode or DigitalOcean. If you have a $60+/month budget and are willing to sacrifice the dynamic scalability of virtual/cloud servers: get a dedicated server.
Linode and DigitalOcean both provide good, inexpensive ($5/month) where you can try things out and run a simple website, with enough capacity to serve several hundred thousand to a few million visitors a day (depending on the complexity of your pages, your CMS if any, etc.).
@JourneymanGeek Fortunately never had a security breach, but that's because I've been savvy enough to make sure my servers use public-key authentication right from the start.
so i have been searching about that
i want to connect 14 monitors in one pc with 4K
that will be for Weather monitoring in every screen will be another layer of the weather and so on
so i found Matrox
but is it good or there is something better
what card do i need to be apply to run that ?
thi...
@SimonSheehan A pair of NVIDIA NVS 810 cards, 1024 CUDA cores in 2x Maxwell GM107 with 4 of 5 SMMs each) would do the trick. These cards cost about $630 a pop.
@SimonSheehan Well, I know for a fact there are about 24 screens on a single computer creating a big display wall on a network operations center where I work.
I have no idea how do they built it, but about 90% of what they have there (that is, except for the proper networking equipment) is apparently consumer-grade stuff.
I have once asked a coworker about the setup of the display, but I forgot what he told me
Was thinking about the concept of day-fines, where fines are adjusted to the person's income. Several European countries have used this with great success. Here in the US, an experiment was run in Staten Island, New York some thirty years ago (day-fine units from $3 to $200, with penalties ranging from 5 to 180 units). I'm wondering if they could try this again, perhaps with a higher unit value range (perhaps $5 to $1000)...
> this will be runing from 2xE5 workstaction/server
I just changed the keyboard layout on a Mac to match my German keyboard, and realised for the first time that macOS offers an Austrian and a German keyboard layout.
However, I’ve no clue what could be difference between a German and and an Austrian keyboard layout. According to my experience th...
What's the difference between the two approches below when specifying access-control in Cisco ASA?
ciscoasa(config)# access-list out2in extended permit ip any any
ciscoasa(config)# access-list out2in extended deny tcp any host 192.168.100.10 eq http
ciscoasa(config)# access-group out2in in inter...
What is Stack Overflow's long-term solution for the Help Vampire problem?
Quote from article follows:
Identifying Help Vampires can be tricky, because they look like any ordinary person (or Internet user, whichever is lesser). But by closely observing an individual's behavior using this hand...
so i have been searching about that
i want to connect 14 monitors in one pc with 4K
that will be for Weather monitoring in every screen will be another layer of the weather and so on
so i found Matrox
but is it good or there is something better
what card do i need to be apply to run that ?
thi...
I just changed the keyboard layout on a Mac to match my German keyboard, and realised for the first time that macOS offers an Austrian and a German keyboard layout.
However, I’ve no clue what could be difference between a German and and an Austrian keyboard layout. According to my experience th...
