Kirby Air Ride! looking for players

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:12 pm

I have been looking for players to play this as its my favorite gamecube game to play. My best friend down the street has it,but with his bandwith capped at 384, we have yet to play a game that didnt have less than 120 ping. I know kirby is very bandwidth intensive, so its hard to find players. My upload on my dsl is 512 and I live in Arlington Texas in the US. If anyone is interested in attempting to get a game goin let me know.

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:52 pm

xjustsumloserx wrote:

I have been looking for players to play this as its my favorite gamecube game to play. My best friend down the street has it,but with his bandwith capped at 384, we have yet to play a game that didnt have less than 120 ping. I know kirby is very bandwidth intensive, so its hard to find players. My upload on my dsl is 512 and I live in Arlington Texas in the US. If anyone is interested in attempting to get a game goin let me know.

Ping latency and bandwidth aren't really related very much. I have 128kb/s of upload bandwidth, and my ping latency to a friend who lives a couple miles away is around 42ms. If you have a 120ms ping to your friend who lives down the street, that's very unusual. Maybe something else is causing your latency to go up; possibly someone was doing a lot of heavy downloading or something?

Kai Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Sweden

I WANT TO PLAAAAY!! Razz

I have looking for years after someone who playes Kirby Air Ride online.
Add me on XLink. Then we play.

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:27 am

ive added you. though you are pretty far away, so not too sure how it would work.

actully i was looking at it,, and my ping is actully 31-34 with him. is this a normal ping for our distance? is there anything else we could do to reduce this ping?

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:22 pm

xjustsumloserx wrote:

ive added you. though you are pretty far away, so not too sure how it would work.

actully i was looking at it,, and my ping is actully 31-34 with him. is this a normal ping for our distance? is there anything else we could do to reduce this ping?

That's fairly normal if you're on different ISP's. A friend who has the same ISP as me has a ping with me of around 19-25ms.

How to reduce ping? Make sure that no other programs are using your Internet connection, because that will add latency. That won't make a huge difference, though. The only real way to significantly reduce ping is to switch ISP's so that you're on the same ISP as your opponent. I know that's not possible for everyone.

Now, a ping of 31-34ms should actually be fairly good for playing GameCube games with Kai. I know KAR is much more bandwidth-intensive than MK:DD, but even so, 256kb/s should be sufficient, if I remember correctly. And MK:DD plays at nearly 60fps even with a ping of 40ms or so, and it's playable at at least 80ms. So there's a good chance that KAR will work okay with the ping you currently have. The only way to find out is to try. Smile

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:25 pm

I'd be more then happy to play KAR, so feel free to add me. Smile

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:12 pm

well while we are both in a arena and actully *playing* the game what should the speed in kb/s be in the client. While we play it normally says it is 8-9kb/s, is this normal?

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:06 am

xjustsumloserx wrote:

well while we are both in a arena and actully *playing* the game what should the speed in kb/s be in the client. While we play it normally says it is 8-9kb/s, is this normal?

Maybe you're confused between kilobits per second (kb/s, lowercase b) and kilobytes per second (kB/s, uppercase B). Computers (and probably Kai) will normally tell you kB/s, because that's how they think, but your ISP will probably rate its speed in kb/s, because the numbers are bigger. 1kB/s = 8kb/s. So 8-9kB/s would be about 64-72kb/s. That's not very much, and I'm a bit surprised KAR would use that little. But I've never played KAR online, so I don't know what's normal there.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:15 pm

with games such as DD, how much does that one use?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:12 am

xjustsumloserx wrote:

with games such as DD, how much does that one use?

I really don't know. I've only played MK:DD on Warp Pipe (although I'd use Kai if I were to play now), but my games were very laggy due to ping. I've never had a full-speed game of MK:DD, so I don't know what bandwidth one would use. I have heard, however, that 128kb/s is fine for MK:DD.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:41 pm

i will play any of y'all

my aim is geister2367

my email is mlggamer@yahoo.com

email me or w/e to setup a game

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:04 pm

ill try, though i gave up in KAR online. untill internet connections recieve a cheap and efficient boost this game is pratically unplayable. but drop me a line on AIM

my SN is
xjustsumloserx

id be glad to play a game, or attempt it.

Kai Beginner Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 24

You need 256k up to play. I have 800k up and looking to host this and MKDD sometime. We should plan a time this weekend or next. I'm in NY.