The Lag Manifesto- useful info for all

[Shadow]

With the proliferation of new sign ups here at the pound, I can see where we have the potential for more lagging and warping in the game.

I've been doing some studying of this over the last few months since we started the SEOW campaign with the 352nd.

[BBloke]

Great post Shadow and certainly well thought.

[delta7]

I have moved this to general discussion to allow all to see this - I think it is well written and worth reading , we are getting a lot of new players and some might not be familiar with the workings of the net and the need to keep everything tight or the effect this will have on other players. We are moving to a new seow and I would like everyone to take a little time to make sure their machines are optimised -

I believe we are not allowing skin downloads and everyone should set their machines to 56k in network tab to optimise client side - If Iv made a mistaake with this then please could the guys who know more about this correct this post.

I also think that people should consider playing in excellent instead of perfect if they use this.

to sum up I think we should all take some time to optimise our machines to allow us all to enjoy seow

If any others have any info that they think would help reduce lag then please post here

thanks for listning

[BBloke]

I have tried the LagMeter, albeit briefly and I have yet to see it working.

[Shadow]

I was looking into the TS thing myself, BBloke.

I read that the GSM 16.4 is all you really need for voice comms.

[BBloke]

I think the codec is fine but it may be a little heavy for dialups.

[Shadow]

Each room now has a different codec.

You can pop into the various rooms and check it out.

[Rattler]

To reduce the amount of radio chatter, would it be helpful to have us use more channels? 1 channel per flight? I know you won't hear everything, but I had whispers set up to each flight leader on Saturday, and it could save us some bandwidth.

[Shadow]

So did anyone try out the different channels in TS yesterday?

The Ready Room was using the GSM 16.4 codec.