What's Your OnLive Latency?

[Aph0ticShield]

You may be wondering, "What would my latency(lag, ping) be with OnLive?" Well I can tell you a pretty close estimate.

These directions work on Windows, though I'm guessing Mac has a similar procedure. NOTE: ***These estimates are only accurate in the continental US because OnLive will not have servers elsewhere***

First hit Start, then type "cmd"(In pre-Windows Vista, you must hit Run first!)

Now type "ping www.google.com -t" (-t makes it run forever until stopped). I use google because they have the fastest servers and most widespread in the US, similar to OnLive. After a few minutes, hit CTRL+C. You will now see Minimum, Maximum and Average speeds in milliseconds.

Be sure that you ADD 2-5ms to these numbers for compression and decompression of video!!!

Now post your scores!

Here are my rankings for the average:
<20ms=WHOA, HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!?
<30ms=AWESOME
<40ms=GREAT
<50ms=good
<80ms=decent
<100ms='Oh well, it'll have to do'
>100ms=100% LAME!
>140ms=Yeah, have fun with that.*Sarcasm*

ME:

Minimum: 37ms + 2-5ms = 39ms-42ms
Maximum: 117ms + 2-5ms = 119ms-122ms Ouch
Average: 45ms + 2-5ms = 47ms-50ms
1% Loss

I get a good rating by my system.

[B1553r]

Ping measures icmp latency, and because of various issues with icmp packets, those are a bad measure, not to mention it will measure tinly little 1k packets. Instead use a service like speedtest.net which measures bandwidth and latency.

I picked chicago, because that is the largest city (most likely place for onlive to co-lo?) in midwest. My results were...

13.32Mb down.
2.82Mb Up.
with a 25ms latency

Looks like I am good to go for HD OnLive service!!!

[Aph0ticShield]

Ping measures icmp latency, and because of various issues with icmp packets, those are a bad measure, not to mention it will measure tinly little 1k packets. Instead use a service like speedtest.net which measures bandwidth and latency.

I picked chicago, because that is the largest city (most likely place for onlive to co-lo?) in midwest. My results were...

13.32Mb down.
2.82Mb Up.
with a 25ms latency

Looks like I am good to go for HD OnLive service!!!

There is the thing, the ping utility in Windows measures packets, not just one packet, like speedtest.net. Speedtest.net is highly inaccurate for latency tests anyway because it runs in flash. Smaller is also better because your not trying to cram a butt load of crud down the tube.

I bet the OnLive midwest will either be in Kansas City or St. Louis. I doubt very much Chicago, because it is so far north and too far east. Notice they said midwest not central.

[Axion]

so players from the UK like my self Buy OnLive (having a decent connection like my self I dont have this problem) but what happens if their ISP dont give enough the right speeds to connect to that server 1000 miles away.

Dont they have plans to place servers in places across the globe like they do with World Of Warcraft and everyone then would benefit from the product.

as if they did place one in france and one in the US somewhere it would work for people.

[Aph0ticShield]

so players from the UK like my self Buy OnLive (having a decent connection like my self I dont have this problem) but what happens if their ISP dont give enough the right speeds to connect to that server 1000 miles away.

Dont they have plans to place servers in places across the globe like they do with World Of Warcraft and everyone then would benefit from the product.

as if they did place one in france and one in the US somewhere it would work for people.

Well, no matter what connection you have in the UK it just won't be fast enough to run OnLive all the way from the states(The speed of light just isn't good enough). Eventually, (After the US)they will go ahead and host servers in the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, etc.

Oh, and welcome to the forums

[Deya]

That's what I got with Speedtest

[Zacharei]

Stupid Rural Internet Connection... Than again... my mother is paying the bare minimum, she won't go any higher than 5 mbps... I want 20, but I guess there's no point right now though lol.