- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
i have a question, and need some of my friends here at bungie.net to help me out. i'll make this as short and to-the-point as possible:
when i played halo1 all the time, i would play over xbc. there would always be some squabble over 'who the *$#* has their computer on?!'
now, i have a small group i usually play with (around 6-10-ish ppl, usually). i used to have 1.5 dsl and have sinced changed to 6 comcast and have noticed a considerable difference. however, in our small group (all of us in the same state, and most pretty close), to my dismay i've still noticed lag from time to time). point: when we got our comcast, and we were playing with our small group- i thought we could do anything, like, having our daughter play on the computer at some kid's cartoon site playing flash games. the others in our group were complaining about wicked lag (we were experiencing no lag). we found something else for our daughter to do, shut the computer off- the others' lag problem solved.
there is someone who will join our group and often cause lag where there wasn't any before- now, having experienced giving others lag with my computer on before, i can only assume he is causing it with his on. i've asked several times for him to turn his off. my responses range from 'it's in sleep mode' or 'its not doing anything' or 'it can't be the problem' or 'we don't have any lag here' or something like that. he won't turn it off! once i found out they had three computers on over there. he seems adamant that his computer(s) on are not the problem and won't turn it off, despite what i've seen and asked.
last night, while playing with 3 friends of my group (who were all on the same box and have 300 dsl!) we were having no lag at all. his brother and sister got off, our next game had some noticeable lag on my end. after i told him, he said 'oh, my sister went upstairs and got online- i'll tell her to shut down!) i was done playing so i couldn't gauge it then.
** after all this (yes, i tried to keep it short)... do i have any bearing in my requests/demands for that member of our group to shut down his computer while playing with us? a member of our group's dad is a network administrator for unix- he told us that even computers in sleep mode are still branched into the network LIVE creates for our group and could have some affect on speed. i don't know why he won't shut it off. maybe he wants his kid to have something to do (while we kick ours off our computer when we play halo2), or he's just adament it's not part of the prob and won't prove us wrong. i'm just asking for a courtesey that we've given ourselves (and solved some probs).
sorry to ramble- i've come to the point where i won't play w/ them any more if thier computer is on- which strains a good friendship- which is why i am here asking. i just want to play some halo with some friends, and make it as lag-less as possible for everyone.
thanks for your time and attention... sorry so long. any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
ps bungie, if this is in wrong forum i apologize!
[Edited on 08.12.2007 12:18 PM PDT]