Re: QUAKE/UDP/PM3
Marty Likier (marty@livingston.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:18:40 -0700
At 09:29 AM 8/15/97 -0500, Jaime Bozza wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Imre Fitos wrote:
>
>> A serious percentage of our users love playing Quake, and they are
>> saying that playing Quake while connected to USR Sportsters with PM2s is
>> way better than through our PM3 ringdown. People say the play is at least
>> choppy and they register UDP packet losses.
>
>This has been a major situation with us. The latency with the PM3 is
>horrible, and any type of game playing is pretty useless.
>
>Initial reports say the Lucent Modem Cards are better, but I haven't
>received a strong word yet if they're as smooth as our PM2/USR Courier
>setup. (Actually, we also run a Worldgroup BBS system, and *THAT* has
>much lower latency than the PM3. Go figure.)
Our internal testing revealed PM3/56K modems have less latency than the
PM2/USR combination. Can anyone verify this from the field?
--
Marty Likier
Product Marketing Mgr.
marty@livingston.com