Well from what I see is out of the top 20 servers I ping well to in ASE, about 15 of them are running on cable IP's. A DSL connection could run fine depending on the situation, but it has been my experience in 4 years of FPS multiplayer that cable servers are absolutly the worst hosts. This is what most ppl are prolly seeing as the laggy servers.
I usually stick to the MOH east server, where I ping 45 and its damn stable. But if its full I have to stumble into another server, I get there and I get an 80ish ping then it spikes up to 250 or 300, then I look and everyone in the server has the exact ping. Argh! I log out and see the server is on a 24.xxx.xxx.xxx IP meaning cable.
No matter if its dedicated or not, a cable server will never offer a solid enough connection to host a game. It will be plauged by the spikes of 200+ ms pings, then go back for a few min then spike again. What the game needs is more of is highspeed dedicated lines out there to host a server for MOH. But then this is up to those ppl that host those servers to decide to host a MOH server. Hopefully once the full version is out we will see more of them.
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-Frost
