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So after a good deal of trying I finally managed to get a game of random people online Brawl going tonight.  Once I finally got connected to people, I had no problem staying connected until I was booted off about two hours later (time flies when you're having fun).

Out of all the game I played I did have a few that were laggy and a few in particular that were just unplayable.  After the first unplayable match I started trying to figure out why this happens and this is what I figure.

Big stages make the game go slow.

Seems obvious but just in case people don't know, I'm pretty sure this is the case of the lag.  On the smaller stages I rarely had lag and when I did it wasn't really that bad.  On the medium stages I had lag a little more often and I *always* had terrible lag in the larger stages.

So when you're choosing your stage for Brawl, choose a small stage.  Don't choose the big ones (especially Pork City) and the stages that scroll around a lot like Donkey Kongs stage.  Stick to the smaller stages and you should be more or less fine.

The only exception I found to this rule was once on the Hyrule Bridge stage.  This one was the worst I had all night but I think that's only because right after that match I got booted off the Nintendo Wi-Fo Connection. 



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Avoid lag well ensure you have a fast broadband would help. Wi-Fi connection tends to lag more than a direct cable from computer to console.



No, stages have nothing to do with it twesterm. Riot and I played on Hyrule Temple (second biggest in the game) and it was completely lag free, and my friend and I have played on Mushroomy Kingdom at least 3 times lag free (it's a sidescroller).

There are only 2 reasons you will ever experience lag in Brawl:

1) The internet connection of one of the players involved blows

2) The players are a very large distance apart.

For 2 it has to be larger than the distance from Indiana to California (since I played that distance lag free), which is over 2,000 miles, so I mean VERY large.



I'm just talking about the random people matches Nazna. I had thought the friends one was supposed to be faster for some odd reason and the random play was supposed to be slower.



Just go electronically hijack a Nintendo server and then you should have no trouble whatsoever.



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Best way to avoid lag: Purchase the lan adapter for the Wii. I have it and it definitely improves transfer speed and ping rates.



Prepare for termination! It is the only logical thing to do, for I am only loyal to Megatron.

Ah, well maybe. I can't say I've ever tried random. Never really had a reason since I've got so many friend codes between this site and my real life friends.



Yeah, I'm keep forgetting to put my friend code on the list. I guess I could do that now but the list is so long and my Wii is way over there...



Print it out? :P

I haven't added everyone on it either to be honest. I just add people as they request matches with me or send me messages asking me specifically. I'm lazy like that haha.



Question. When you guys say lag, do you mean video is choppy or your moves are delayed. I played my friend who lives in the same state (but about a 5 hour car ride) as me. The visuals didnt get choppy, but I noticed that everything moved about .5 to 1 second after I hit the buttons. I was forced to compensate for this. Will it get to the point where I wont know if its an online match because it is so precise in timing?



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