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Posted by: Screamo
riot is to halo as batman is to gotham city
Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
Distance doesn't matter on the internet. If you read Google's string theory of quantum electron relativity, you'd know that internet traffic acts like dropping a feather in a vacuum. No matter how far it has to fall, it always lands at the same time. The reason hosts in other countries are laggy is because of date and language translation. All the packets have to be routed through each country's translation de-modulator. That slows them down considerably, and you get game lag because of it.
In all seriousness though, I'm pretty sure no one capable of turning on a computer needs it explained to them that it takes longer to travel longer distances. At least I really hope that doesn't need to be explained.
This, and it also depends on the internet connections of the host/those connecting to the host.
Connecting to a slow internet connection doesn't help matters at all.