James.Chambers at irishlife.ie said:
> I want to setup a p133 32mb linux router for my home network , but at the
> moment I am playing some online games and was just wondering if any has any
> idea how much it would add to my ping in games?
> if it makes any odds the network is on a 100 hub/switch with 100 network
> cards and if I was playing online games that would be the only internet
> traffic.
Our dedicated plain-old-P200, with nothing else running on it, shuttles
packets back and forth in about 500 microseconds. That's usecs, not msecs.
It also does NAT and firewalling, so if you leave those out it'd be
faster; but I don't think 500us is going to affect gaming when you have
the ISDN or dialup latency in the picture, anyway.
HTH,
--j.
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