what exactly makes great connections?

[shoultzula]

@ first, I thought it was all regional. So I played people in the southeast and EC and I was getting perfect connections. I live in FL and where ever skisonic is from, we had a perfect connection. It was virtually lag free. But just now, I was playing someone in NE FL and the connection was horrible which doesn't make any sense since I was able to play someone palm beach FL and the connection was perfect. Thats easily a few hundred miles closer and the connection was worse?

[Banthur]

You have to remember that the internet is basically a large web of nodes, how you connect to someone (regardless of distance) depends on the structure of this web. There might be 5-20 points your data has to pass through to reach a given person; any one of which could cause a potential slowdown or loss of data. You might get a 17 node connection to someone far away and have all of them be very healthy nodes or a 8 node connection to someone close with a slow/busy node between you screwing it all up.

[ShunThanos]

Yeah, sorry Shoultzula about the connection. Still, that means I can blame everyone else for my connection problems and not take any responsibility...

At this point though, the entire time on GGPO I have had terrible connections. Using cable modem from cox cable in Pensacola. If that gives any useful information in figuring out what the deal is.

[0746]

Could it be that part of the lag comes from having a shit pc on either of the ends? I mean, it does more than just emulates...it re emulates and re emulates...

[Banthur]

re-emulates? I don't notice much of a performance drag on my laptop and its not too beefy.. 1gig of ram, 1.5ghz pentium M

[0746]

I was referring to all the "take backs" people might have been talking about.