Joe you missunderstand me too. My 2 points are totaly true and most common on this server. Mathematicaly most of laggers are Australians (no ofense guys, you dont need good ping for RP, just dont attack me) and downloaders (slap yourself jerks). Ethiopian was just sarcasm... there isnt internet conection in Ethiopia in desert... only in biggest towns:)
"national" lags are caused by satelit issues or just with distance.
For example you Joe as british player. You are playing lalala and pew satelite wasnt responding for few seconds because that poor machine was overloaded... thats all, nothing mysterious on that, problem caused by provider.
Australians.. well they are victims of geography. When australian player press F3 for cruise engine that information is going thru server of their provider, than its going thru satelite 1... we all know from elemental physic it isnt posible to send signal through earth so their signal is transfered into next satelite and from that to next one... last third satelite send information to server of provider of our server and he send that information to our beloved server... crapy ha:) Again nothing mysterious.
Ok now we know the entire evil is hiden in servers of our providers and satelites...
Sometimes can happen something to your network card (for example my room mate have broken network card... when he share something on network and someone try to download it, his internet conection fail).
Sometimes just lag our disco server.
Now my favorite part... example:
Player Bob meet players Fish, player Chips and player Kangaroo.
Fish and Chips are british players and both have same provider, kangaroo is from australia.
Fish and Kangaroo lag like hell but chips is fine... hows that?
Well Kangaroo as ausie cant do anything with that... let poor creature be but Fish is frikin jerk because if Chips doesnt lag, Fish must be downloading and I say stone him!
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