Dedicated Servers - So Far So Good - Review from the UK
I've played 4 HUT Champs qualification games today on the dedicated servers, and I've got to say the performance was excellent. I live in the UK - I don't know where the nearest server is; I've heard Ireland and Germany - but the ping times were below 10ms and even though there was the occasional spike in lag time this had no noticeable effect in game.
I run a pretty fast home network and the Xbox is connected by WiFi due to a wall between the router and Xbox - this may be addressed in future by routing a hole through the wall so wired connection is possible, but based on today's performance it may not be needed.
I know this may not be everyone's experience, depending on their home web access and their location to the server but I figured this would be good place to start letting people know how this is working.
I run a pretty fast home network and the Xbox is connected by WiFi due to a wall between the router and Xbox - this may be addressed in future by routing a hole through the wall so wired connection is possible, but based on today's performance it may not be needed.
I know this may not be everyone's experience, depending on their home web access and their location to the server but I figured this would be good place to start letting people know how this is working.
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That's good - some others from Finland and Sweden suggested that even at that 30ms ping the game felt very sluggish - hopefully you're experience is more of the norm for Europe.
Thinking it's something else than ping. I have now 30ms both HUT and EASHL. Eashl connection varies alot, from smooth to sluggish between games. Let's see how HUT goes when i get more games under My belt.
IDK if those were the best HUT games ever in connection wise but at least very close. No sign of Fatman lag nor input delay!
But it was quite obvious that my opponents didn't have that good connection. Especially in my 2nd game my AI's were like bunch of steroid monsters, they were everywhere and always going for loose puck etc. My inputs had zero delay, it was just amazing. That is VERY rare for me. Final score was 9-0 but the way my opponent TRIED to play clearly indicated that he wasn't that bad, the game was just too much ”tilted“ for me. Because of the connection to be clarified.
Ping was ~30ms in both games, exactly same as I have in EASHL (if there's nothing wrong). 2nd game was somehow better than 1st what comes to "responsiveness” of my input, it was just like playing offline. Edit: forgot to say I'm from Finland.
It really seems that players that had problems with P2P are having a good time with DS's and vice versa?
But let's see if that is permanent or temporary. Fact is though, that EA is almost forced to set up more servers, otherwise they will have huge problems ahead...