Thanks for your answers:
1. It is something you can at least try, but as a second-to-last resort in case nothing else works (last resort would be changing ISPs). Whether or not it makes any difference to ping times remains to be seen, but frankly it's doubtful.
2. Ouch.
3. OK, but they're all in the same part of India - we're not talking like Chandigargh to Trivandrum
🙂
4. See what results a traceroute to their IP gives you - this might help you identify if there is a point which is having some congestion and whether that point is on MTNL's network or one of the other networks. The most recent TRAI report suggested that MTNL's links to other ISPs had some of the worst congestion, but I'm not sure if this applied to MTNL Mumbai, MTNL Delhi or both together.
5. That's pretty damn good for MTNL, actually (that's our server - it's located somewhere in Gurgaon).
6/7: Try it with wires. Wireless is generally bad for ping times, and I personally would ALWAYS prefer wired for gaming.
Have you made sure that the
router's ports are forwarded for the game? The game itself will be listening on some port (like 61234 or whatever) and the router will need to be "told" what this is in it's configuration page. This may be all that is required to fix the issues.
Also, are any file-sharing programs running at the same time? These can *really* hurt your ping times, even on a high-speed connection.
No, man, i should thank you for your answers.
And sorry for replying so late, i had my exams -_-.
And, yes, you were right, wired is better for hosting. I never could differentiate between playing games with wired or wireless.
But there was a lot of difference in wired and wireless when hosting.
Wired was obviously better.
Okay, i don't know about that game Call of Duty : Modern warfare.
But i tried hosting a server for Age of Empires 2. (I know it's a pretty old game)
And well, people from all over India connected, one person from Indonesia, one person from Malaysia, and one person from England also connected.
And, *drum roll*, when i told them if they were lagging, they said that just a bit. And the people in India said they weren't lagging at all !
Yeaah ! *High five*
And well, my speed was coming at 60kbps that time when i asked this question, (it's still coming that way), before it used to be 150kbps.
I called the Mtnl in delhi and they told me that (don't remember much) that something was broken/not well? Don't remember sorry
😕. It was kinda related to a submarine cable cutoff i guess. and because of that people in my area were getting low - download speeds.
So i guess it'll be all right when i get it like that.
Thanks for answering mate. =D.