Currently playing from 315 miles away (240 straight miles) any way to boost my latency?

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^^There is no fix for lag...................................... Why should my "skill"be negated because I have a better connection?

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Good point.

It shouldnt be ............... and my "skill" shouldnt be negated because I'm hundreds of miles from the host , and you are 6 feet from him ( you being host) ?



Thats the whole point of compensating players.



Even if you have a 50/30 connection, If you wee 1000 miles away from the host and the rest of the players who have crappy connections are within a hundred miles or so of the host , You would have a disadvantage without any compensation. Would that be
ok?



Thats something people dont seem to get. No matter what your plan is with your provider, its limited by something else ............. the laws of physics.

Information can only travel so fast. The only one you can really blame for that is God.



Somebody having a 15 ms ping during a pingtest really doesnt mean squat ........ especially when that 15 ms is to a server 50 miles away and you are playing people 5000 miles away.



If you are playing someone half way around the earth, human technology and the laws of physics limits your ping to about 134 ms ........

Do the math.

Speed of light = 186000 miles per second.

That means 1 ms for every 186 miles ........... or 1 ms ping for every 93 miles.

The best ping possible:

93 miles = 1 ms

930 miles = 10 ms

9300 miles = 100 ms

Half way aroung the earth is 12500 miles.

IF your on Satellite internet, you can't do anything about the Latency(ping). The Satellite that your data comes from is 45,000 mile's away, the ping is the time it takes to send and receive data from point A to point B.

ignore that latency test, it is just a network test to a central server in the middle of the US, better to open the xbox browser and run pingtest.net.

i get the same latency from mine

643Mbps down

56.2Mbps upload

158ms Latency

but when i test my ping to a server farm 200 miles away my latency is 6ms.

The older xbox will struggle sometimes with newer games too as it will be playing at a much lower fps than newer consoles and the internal hdd can make is chug a bit.

Hi,

Do you actually have latency issues in online play?

The Xbox network test shouldn't be relied on for latency testing, and there is a good reason for this.

Ping, measured in 'ms' or milliseconds is the time it takes for data to be recieved back to you once it's been sent out. Speedtest.net will find a very close server when it test latency, so should almost always return a high teens or mid twenties figure.
In contrast, the Microsoft server could be hundreds of miles away from your location. Hence the high ping.

You can test this via the speedtest by choosing a test server many hundreds of miles away. You'll get a higher ping and this is quite normal. But you'll probably need the Speedtest app as changing the server isn't as easy as it used to be.

Multiplayer 1/10. My ping is killig me can be as low as 5ms 50 miles away, just ran a test to hamburg 450 miles away ping 35ms.