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[Lin]

YES! (!caps)

Sorry, excitement takes over sometimes.

We need to evaluate whether or not it would be worth it to move the BF1942 box one more time...to Chicago. Money is tight and the only thing on the New York box currently is 1942. That's a lot of box for a dying game. So, in order to do an appropriate eval, we need to stress test the Chicago unranked box and see if BF1942 and Day of Defeat can live together. Yes, we were trying that in New York, and sometimes both games had some stutter and no-regs. But that was in the New York 'net infrastructure, and we need to test the Chicago infrastructure for the same thing, for ping (from Europe, So America, Australia, NZ, etc) and see if it would be worth moving the BF1942 game there.

I'm looking at some time Saturday evening so that both games will be able to have population, and so we can do an appropriate stress test. If this works and if both games play well together, we may well end up moving BF1942 to Chicago.

Tell your friends...we'll post the time here soon, so you know when to show up. We need to know what the true regs are...not just what you say when you get killed.

Can we do this?

[Warrior124]

By the title I thought we were going to combine BF'42 and "The Dating Game" into one event.

[Tony Montana]

Lin that would be wonderful! I'll be sure to help test it out. I live in the Chicagoland area!

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

Hi LIn,

Ok, I will post here what is ping for who is in South America.

Tony,

It will be an abuse you with a low ping......

Hope is for the best.

[HARRY TRIGGER]

Lets do a map with tanks and jeeps.....

[shortY]

Tony's not a ping player... Oh, not at all :/

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

Tony's not a ping player... Oh, not at all :/

not what intended to say at all !! , a great player in a low ping will be even more impossible for someone that like me, that has usualy is 180 ping and not a good infantary.

[Sgt. NoScope]

I should be able to make it

[Tony Montana]

Tony's not a ping player... Oh, not at all :/

HAHAHA Don't hate! Appreciate!

[Grinch]

I have never seen Tony change weapons so fast you cannot get a shot on him !

Well, I will be here for sure on those testing times !!

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

I have never seen Tony change weapons so fast you cannot get a shot on him !

Well, I will be here for sure on those testing times !!

You can get a shot to him, and then his whole clip is already hiting your head LOL to re spawn....

[Lin]

The Chicago test server is ready: 173.208.83.19

Give her a whirl, and we'll likely be seeding it up at approx 5pm EST Saturday (tomorrow) until about 8-9 EST, just to make sure the two servers (BF1942 and DOD) are both as full as possible, and running well together.

[birney]

To ensure this stress test works and for server maintance, we have [u]shut down[/u]
our main server for the next few hours.


If you know how to join via i.p the test i.p is. 173.208.83.19

If you prefer to find servers via the name than search MOON and the one with moongamers TEST is the one you need to continue playing!!

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

Hi,just been at test server and is no good, died for lag 4 times, imagine conection problems if you are in plane and when conection came back u are 1 inch of building, land or tree.... bad! bad !!

And my ping whent from 170 to 300 or more !!!

Please dont move to chicago server !!

[Captain Australia]

Hi Moongamers

+1 on moving to the new server - its much smoother than original one and ping is lower. So please move it to Chicago

[HARRY TRIGGER]

I was in the test server yesterday, there were 3 others in.
I know nothing about ping. I would assume my ping would be better with this server because it is closer to where I live.
My game runs still the same as it has over the past 8 years. Choppy at times, then there are periods it runs pretty smooth.
Just my 2 cents worth. I always dream of what BF42 would be like running smoothly all the time.

[RockyTop]

I was in the test server yesterday, there were 3 others in.
I know nothing about ping. I would assume my ping would be better with this server because it is closer to where I live.
My game runs still the same as it has over the past 8 years. Choppy at times, then there are periods it runs pretty smooth.
Just my 2 cents worth. I always dream of what BF42 would be like running smoothly all the time.

You have to upgrade your PC Harry...a hamster running on a wheel doesn't cut it anymore.

[opus]

Hi,just been at test server and is no good, died for lag 4 times, imagine conection problems if you are in plane and when conection came back u are 1 inch of building, land or tree.... bad! bad !!

And my ping whent from 170 to 300 or more !!!

Please dont move to chicago server !!

A high ping is not the result of lag; rather, a high ping causes lag.
Therefore make sure you test your local services, to enure you are clear of problems.
Three things affect the overall ping- 1. Network protocol engineering, 2. Internet connection speed, the quality of a user's Internet service provider and ofcourse the configuration of your firewalls. Check with your provider, and see if your getting the correct amount of bandwith.

You can ask your ISP to test it for you, and locate the specific server causing too much latency. Then you can be re-routed, and hopefully that can improve your ping. Also be sure you have a decent upload speed! (allows faster updates of game data = lower latency = Smoother gameplay.)

- Just trying to help you Trooper.


@Lin
If the server is still up, I'll drop by today and test it out.


-opus

[Lin]

The server is still up for anyone to check things out.

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

Hi,just been at test server and is no good, died for lag 4 times, imagine conection problems if you are in plane and when conection came back u are 1 inch of building, land or tree.... bad! bad !!

And my ping whent from 170 to 300 or more !!!

Please dont move to chicago server !!

A high ping is not the result of lag; rather, a high ping causes lag.
Therefore make sure you test your local services, to enure you are clear of problems.
Three things affect the overall ping- 1. Network protocol engineering, 2. Internet connection speed, the quality of a user's Internet service provider and ofcourse the configuration of your firewalls. Check with your provider, and see if your getting the correct amount of bandwith.

You can ask your ISP to test it for you, and locate the specific server causing too much latency. Then you can be re-routed, and hopefully that can improve your ping. Also be sure you have a decent upload speed! (allows faster updates of game data = lower latency = Smoother gameplay.)

- Just trying to help you Trooper.


@Lin
If the server is still up, I'll drop by today and test it out.


-opus

Opus,

Thank you ! but issue when was at Chicago server was not due my internet provider, I did tested their service and was correct as usual, same parameters as always before.

I know ping does not mean lag, Ive played in servers with 300+ ping and never suffered a freeze or a "conection problems" issue. But at that server it happened 4 times in less than 15 minutes, was unplayable.

I mentioned worst ping as almost got double in there and it afect a lot the game and make almost impossible to play as an infantary and even on a plane, delay the bombing/shooting and cause me to miss targets a lot when with 170 ping that does not happens.

So if you ask me, please dont move to chicago server.