Explanation of the lag ! - You dont know lag, check inside !

[SSJKarma]

EXPLANATION OF THE LAG

internet is made of multiple network !
ottawa,hong kong, alabama and all the country's are connected to that network by the SERVERS. when you type in an URL, that same URL is translate into an IP address, then this address is sent into the network to find what your looking for, THE WEB SITE. **then it is bringed back to you by the best path the packet (data sended over internet) can have...**

what i have put between the ** ** is what cause the lag !
example of a packet travelling from new york to new jersey (see how close those town are, only a river separate them both) the packet goes from new york to quebec to ottawa to hong kong to africa to groenland to some other country then gets back to the texas to finally comes to new jersey !

what caused the long path ? you ask...
simple answer, the packet has try to find a path that isn't blocked by other packet and since he has some TTL (Time To Live) he must find the fastest way around, but the thing is, the fastest way isn't necessarely the better one ! in most of the case the packet get in a loop (like this, ottawa to hong kong back to ottawa and get again to hong kong, you see the picture) and since his time ran out he just self destruct. then the computer in new jersey send a new message back to new york and say:"hey i never receive packet number 14 out 16, can you send it back ?" then the computer send the missing packet and the whole thing goes on again !

so in the nutshell, your modem does only one thing, that is not what count the most in that kind of game ! here is the explanation of the modem... the game sends about 3kb packet so even a 33,6 phone modem can send it in less than 1 second. now i know for sure that tmyapp tested the game on a 28,8 modem and he said it worked right too ! so the data is really less again so the fact that you have cable and or phone modem isn't what count in here since both send at the same rate ! (for cable modem to make a difference the packet must be 4096 or larger, thats about 4kb)

other things that come into play is those who are on phone lines, not modem but the phone line itself. if it is old then it put some interferences in the lines so the user lose speed and same goes to cable modem user except that they have more recent lines so they have less interferences ! that explain why some user have 56k modem but they don't connect to more than 33,6... my case exactly !

i know this is long, but to understand lag you must understand INTERNET and your MODEMs !