@Ironhead841 wrote:I assume due to our location that the server is probably in the Seattle area but I'm not 100% sure where it actually is.
Wherever the server is located we all average high 20s to low 40s ping-wise, mine stays pretty steady 30-34 ping.
But we have tried playing on East Coast servers and as a group our pings jumped to the 120s-140s so it's not like it's just one of us with a bad connection it happens to all of us and while we are geographically in roughly the same area (PNW as I said) we all live in different towns..
I know from many tracrt's that all my Southern California packets go through LA first then out from there. Many of my packet loss's come from the congested servers there "LA". I cannot say where the backbone is located in northern California though.
I have spent time figuring out what LAT and ALAT works best with my 50cal sniper main. In summary, I back out if the server can't hold 50ms LAT AND 80ms ALAT, as the 50 cal has no aim assist, tiny enemy player hit box, and the most latency sensitive weapon in the game due to slow bullet speed and overly exaggerated bullet drop (nothing like the real world version).
Whatever changes Dice made recently, I'm guessing the limited/filtered regional servers as my ALAT has dropped from 60-160ms to 27-80ms for almost all AOW servers. My K/D, hit percentage, and all out experience has went up exponentially with the better server/net code recently.
So I'd rather have issues with servers filling quickly or at all than have them fill instantly and then experience the "horrible referee" net code chaos...
I normally stick to portal as I can control my LAT/ALAT easier, but lately AOW is "portal like" with lower ALAT servers. Dice knows at LAT and ALAT are important for a quality game experience online, and thus why they have graphs and statistics you can monitor in real time on your screen while playing.
Note that in portal, Dice warns you once your LAT gets hither than 61ms that your connection quality is poor. Check out portal "All servers", rank by "Ping", and below are my "connection quality" ratings at the moment:
4 out of 4 bars green connection quality = 46ms (excellent quality gaming experience)
3 out of 4 bar green connection quality = 61ms (good quality gaming experience)
2 out of 4 bars orange connection quality = 138ms (poor quality gaming experience)
1 out of 4 bars red connection quality = 156ms (terrible quality gaming experience)
Thus Dice warn you if your connection is above 61ms, the quality of your gaming experience will most likely suffer. Thus avoid ALAT above 60-80ms as when other player's have poor connections, your gaming experience will suffer when fighting them even if your LAT is below say 50ms. Unlike the "old days", low ping players don't get the advantage anymore against high ping players. So try hard to avoid servers full numerous high ping players, which results in a higher ALAT number...
