IllegalPaladin on 19 January 2008
| Griffin said: From my understanding the lag in games is not caused by the ISP provider but by the companies that make the game and run the servers. I have two games on the PS3 that i play online all the time, and one runs perfect with zero lag and the other one lags like crazy no matter how high pings are. But if the lag was caused by a bad ISP and there were no other providers in the area, i would pay upwards of $5 to have perfect online gaming each month. |
lol, the crappy DSL at my apartment and the good 7mb cable modem at my parents house say hello.
I think the problem is part ISP, part game developers servers, and part non-dedicated servers that can cause the lag.
It sucks, TF2 rocked at home and was good when I went back to my apartment with my computer in the days before everybody came back to town from winter break. The second everybody came back, my DSL chugs even if I join servers that have a ping of 40 or less and it shoot up to at least 100 and 600 at most.
