Whoa! Blast from the past. I've seen those. This is the absolute best tho: https://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html
On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > A sample: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8zaSFbO5_8 > > > > He started as a troll and supposedly tired of it and went straight, I > can’t confirm the second part. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 5, 2025 6:52 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game > > > > Possibly. I'm not going to search that as I fully expect I'd regret it. > > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > > Maybe Steve’s talking about the people who do stuff based on ThioJoe > Youtube videos. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 5, 2025 9:41 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game > > > > Use 12ft.io for paywalls - I don't have one but it may be an adblocker. > > > > No that's not me. Most of the games I play are from 1999-2005 so it only > needs a modern potato to run with full graphics. > > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > > Is this you? > > > https://www.theverge.com/pc-gaming/606006/nvidia-rtx-5090-egpu-gaming-handheld-oculink-test-pcie-minisforum-deg1 > > (sorry if it’s behind a paywall, I have a subscription so I’m not sure) > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 5, 2025 8:22 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game > > > > Hey don't put all of us in one bucket. > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > PC gamers are the worst cause they followed some redit guide to improve > the network card performance. Just burn their house down and be done with it > > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 8:44 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > wrote: > > Yes, move closer to the server. Either that or they can figure out how to > break physics. It takes time to get from one point to another. > > > > "Bunch of IP" is probably the 15 other players in his 16 player game. If > it's AWS they're probably masquerading it for obvious security reasons. > > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > > Move closer to the server? > > > > I assume you don’t mean if the server is in Virginia, tell the customer to > move to Virginia? > > > > FWIW, I torched the customer’s traffic trying to determine where the > server was, and saw a bunch of IP addresses communicating with his gaming > PC. I took the one with the most traffic, and ping time to it was around > 10 ms, but rDNS was blahblahblah.awsglobalaccelerator.com I think. So > AWS routes the traffic across a private network supposedly to improve > performance? > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Saturday, February 1, 2025 4:39 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game > > > > There's no one ping to rule them all, but generally it's the latency of a > game packet from gamer to host and back. It could be a dedicated server or > a peer to peer game. The latter is more common (cheap bastards). > > > > The #1 thing you can do to reduce latency is move closer to the server. > > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since they're playing with someone else, I'm betting it has something to > do with turnaround time with the gamer they're playing with? > > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 2/1/2025 12:31 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Does anyone here speak gamer? > > > > What is the ping time displayed in some games? Someone will tell me it’s > like 200 ms, but speedtest.net reports 15, and a command line ping > reports 13 min, 15 avg, 20 max. > > > > I don’t know what to do with the numbers they quote from the game, they > don’t correlate to anything I can measure. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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