Resistance sockets + lan + lag

Something I noticed with the sockets beta-versions as well.

People connect to the dediserver via the linux masquerading port forward thingy, and they don't lag a bit, ping is okay and no desync etc. ADSL and ISDN-connections, playable, just like it was with DirectPlay.

But as I connect to our dedi thru the LAN, a 100mbps switch between my machine and the dedi..

Why is my ping higher than the rest? Why do I get desync? Why do I experience warping and lagging, even while playing all by myself, against AI enemies, even those are a bit hard to hit when they bounce 5 meters in all directions when they are running. Even a 11kb mission file takes about 15 seconds to load, not to mention the bigger ones. Once I observed it download a 800kb file from the dediserver, measuring at about modem transfer rates. It took MINUTES to download.

The ADSL players were impatiently asking for someone to kick me from my own server, as they were done far ahead of me.

With DirectPlay the performance of the network was just like it should be, minimal ping with fast mission loads and no warping or lag, ever.

It's not a routing problem, my machine is 192.168.1.2 and the dediserv is 192.168.1.5 ==

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C:\>ping 192.168.1.5

Pinging 192.168.1.5 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.5: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.5: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.5: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Reply from 192.168.1.5: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.5:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>tracert 192.168.1.5

Tracing route to OFP [192.168.1.5]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms OFP [192.168.1.5]

Trace complete.

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Any ideas, anyone? Anyone else noticed the same thing?

BIS, anything that might cause this?

Sockets has effectively stopped me from playing on my own server. Anything I could do to even investigate further?

Well, i'm not an IP expert, but i'm running a 2 PC 1 modem

internet sharing connection.

Did you join your ded-server by LAN connection or by internet?

If by LAN, just try it by using the way around through the

www. Maybe this solves your problem.

As i said, i'm not an expert - just give it a try - if it solves

your prob, it was worth the try.

~S~ CD