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Living with Lag - An Oculus Rift experiment

submitted by Zawash

1 decade 1 week ago

YT: You wouldn't accept lag offline, so why do it online? ume.net, a fiber broadband provider that offers up to 1000 Mbit/s, performed an experiment. Four volunteers got to experience internet's biggest disturbance in real life - lag.

Gotta put this in Time Shift - it is, at least for the subjects.. :D

4 Comments

(And yes, you may have seen it before, posted by @eric3579).

"You wouldn't accept lag offline, so why do it online?"

Because I live in the United States of God-damn America, and I already pay $90 a month for 340Kpbs! Insensitive fucks.
GIVE ME AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS MONOPOLY!

teebeenz says...

Perhaps they should have actually done an ad about lag, instead of one about latency. If an ISP can't get that right, probably best to look for another ISP.

1000Mbit doesn't necessarily equate to lower latency anyway, and then Up/Download speed isn't even that important for online gaming, unless you want to stream/torrent/uploadselfies while playing. It is however a nice number that's easy to stick on marketing material. I had a huge fight with an ISP a few years ago after they pretty much flat refused to do anything about crippling packet loss of 10ish% at peak times because it had a "negligible effect on bandwidth". Pretty sad that I get much more reliable net over ADSL copper lines at 10ish Mbit than I had on fiberoptic.

Perhaps they should have actually done an ad about lag, instead of one about latency. If an ISP can't get that right, probably best to look for another ISP.

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