From: wk5w@luca.bme.Virginia.EDU (William Thang Katz)
Subject: More lag questions
Originator: wk5w@luca.bme.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:53:15 GMT

I have noticed my lag is not steady but seems to magically increases
when I'm in "critical" proximity to an opponent.  Can anyone explain
this?  The following was taken from a ping log to discovery and the
1+ sec lags came when I had an enemy ship was almost next to me and
we are firing everything at each other.  This seems more than
coincidental.

64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=1. time=47. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=2. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=3. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=4. time=53. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=5. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=7. time=44. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=8. time=1265. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=9. time=294. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=10. time=728. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=11. time=57. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=12. time=52. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=13. time=61. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=14. time=47. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=15. time=48. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=16. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=17. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=18. time=46. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=19. time=46. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=20. time=43. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=21. time=90. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=23. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=24. time=44. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=25. time=51. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=26. time=67. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=28. time=46. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=29. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=30. time=43. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=31. time=49. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=32. time=68. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=33. time=46. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=34. time=44. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=35. time=53. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=36. time=51. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=38. time=1195. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=39. time=254. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=40. time=51. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=41. time=59. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=42. time=47. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=43. time=146. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=44. time=60. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=45. time=46. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=46. time=53. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=47. time=59. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=48. time=47. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=49. time=49. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=50. time=67. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=51. time=45. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=52. time=47. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=53. time=55. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=54. time=62. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=55. time=44. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=56. time=74. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=57. time=94. ms
64 bytes from discovery.cl.msu.edu (35.8.1.220): icmp_seq=59. time=77. ms
^C
----discovery.cl.msu.edu PING Statistics----
60 packets transmitted, 55 packets received, 8% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 43/117/1265

-Vorpal Gandhi

Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA