So how does the networking work?

posted on May 7th, 2010, 6:13 am

I would like to get some answers for how the networking in FO works.

1. If we have a group of people what affects lag:
a) The person that is hosting
b) The worst connection between people
c) processing power

2. Is it possible to see which connection is causing lag? I know that ALT-T shows better statistics, but it is not able to tell which two ppl cause the lag.

3. It seems that not only the latency affects lag because a high latency not always leads to lag.

posted on May 7th, 2010, 9:44 am

the person hosting and the slowest connection do of course affect lag. Processing power might also be an issue, if the PC of a players is not powerful enough to handel FO

posted on May 7th, 2010, 10:40 am

so which person should host a game? The one that has the best ping or the one that hast the best average ping (i.e. to all other people)?

posted on May 8th, 2010, 10:36 am

the one with the best average ping