LiquidWeb: 46
Kattare: 94

Massachusetts

Liquidweb = 113ms
Kattare = 172ms

England

Doesn't really effect me since im practically in the middle-west area of canada. This would actually make things better for us ol canadian country folks up here eh?

138ms average to Liquidweb
206ms average to Kattare

I live in the middle of nowhere in the UK.

Man my pings are screwed... 450ms to kattare, 650 to liquidweb
I'll try again when my housemate isnt raping the bandwidth though.
Uk btw

My last pings where from my job. These are from my home computer.

Kattare: 263

Liquidweb: 159

Jeff, I don't think there is a real question here... just make the change. The additional horse power under the hood will do wonders for SS.

When you expierence a serious bout of lag, the type where all your shots miss and the AI's all float off into the distance, that isn't connection lag because everyone everywhere recieves it simultaneously. Even with a higher ping, having more grunt in the new server will help a lot. I'm with Thummper here, its a better server, its cheaper, it will have little or no adverse affect. (Except possible downtime whilst the change is in progress) so it's a pretty easy decision

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I wont post what my ping tiems are since i use satelit and my ping times are way to variable from one moment to the next. Looking at most players ping times i doubt theyd see a difference. The better server could be a huge help with some of the server side lag, general performance.

Go ahead and switch servers.

P.S. my ping times can vary betwen .5 and up to 2.5 seconds.

ah i got it...

I live in texas

kattare: 111ms average

liquidweb: 79ms average

Normal human reaction time is >200ms, and probably greater than 300 ms - there are timers on the web that test your reaction time.

http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html

Ping != Lag in this situation I don't think. The higher ping might result in a slight variance in your ability to dodge a bullet, but lag is caused byt he server being overwhelmed. Doubling the server Horsepower should result in a net decrease in perceived lag. I have done large scale performance projects for almost a decade, and never once seen people complain more on bigger hardware. With your new multithreading code in Jeff, this would give the server a lot more frames per second and result in considerably less perceived lag.

My average response time on that website linked above was 270ms
Liquidweb = 123ms
kattare = 143ms

Im in asia and i get:

Kattare: 247
Liquid: 250

hmm barely any change

im in colorado and my ping times are 103ms from liquidweb and 102 from kattare respectively. heya swingarm nice to know more coloradens play SS go for the new server. its a definate upgrade and like you said its cheaper for you guys right? thats perfect. we can advertize more and put more into development. thats a big plus right there.

I'm in colorado and I got the same stats as Goldie + 10.