From: Martin Feeney (martin at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 15 May 2001 - 12:11:23 IST
On Tue, 15 May 2001 12:00:27 Justin Mason wrote:
>
> James.Chambers at domain 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.
In fact it tends to smooth it out somewhat
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