* Posts by SakuraNoSeirei

2 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2011

Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes

SakuraNoSeirei

Simple explanation

It's simple to explain. The BBC spent so much time reading the Granuid to keep up with the story that they caught Guardianitis.

Virgin Media blames Activision for Call of Duty lag problems

SakuraNoSeirei
WTF?

Confused..

Think you got a bit confused there mate. The video doesn't mention anything about downloading it from P2P, rather the comment underneath states that "all console gaming traffic is now P2P", in other words the info being passed from gamer to server and back again is run as P2P, not that the game itself is being downloaded illegally.

I'm also surprised that Virgin Media or Activision don't know what this problem is. Something similar plagued Champions Online when it was first released. On some ISPs it worked fine, on others it was lag-a-palooza. Turns out it was nothing to do with traffic management per se, rather it was some ISPs buffering the traffic going and coming from the game. Cryptic managed to set up proxy servers that solved this problem, and although the architecture won't be exactly the same, it's entirely possible that Activision could as well.

I'm not saying that is the problem, but it sure does sound familiar.