Sandstorm said:
Why must everyone quote that stupid line?
Cause its funny.
Besides with the new technology. Everything getes cheaper. New stuff comes out on a 6 month basis. And the prices fall with the same speed. Who needs cutting edge stuff when you can have decent stuff for loads cheaper with a minimal loss of quality.
As for the whole connection thing. A 6 Gb connection from the server is nothing if the client doesnt have a high connection.
The server has to have a fast enough connection in order not to lag. But its still very important that the client has a fast connection.
If you join a server that has a connection speed of a few GB/s and your own speed is still 1 MB/s your ping will act as if its 1 MB/s not the connection the server has.
The server connection only matters when there is a large amount of clients joining.
Lets say the server has a 3 GB connection and the clients all have a 1 GB connection.
4 clients would cause the server to lag cause each of the clients uses up 1 GB where the server can only work with 3 BG at a time. Its like an overload.
With that eliminated pings in the numbers of a few microseconds are actualy possible.