Xboxconnect v.s. Xlink Kai Evo 7

Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:34 pm

I know Xlink is better than XBC in terms of features. But XBC still wins in terms of lower pings. Xlink games that I have seen and played so far are rather laggy.

Take for example a game that I played just now. In Xlink it was laggy, so when we both agreed to switch to XBC. No problems in XBC.

Are there any tips on improve the connection between boxes?

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

Things have changed a lot from the evo6 build which most people used for benchmarking. While XBC is pretty tight packetwise, I think the general census from both userbases was that evo6 absolutely left it for dead performance wise.

It's gonna take a little time for us to "shake down" evo7 - there are so many things which can produce extra lag - and sometimes it can be hard to debug Kai because it so distributed - ie. distributed clients, distributed list servers (orbitals) , distributed filesystem (mirrors), etc.

Suffice to say though, we will get to the bottom of it - and performance will be equal to that of evo6, and probably considerably faster.

In the mean time, you're gonan have to be content with slower games, or find ppl nearer to you, or play something less sensitive like RS3 or PGR2.

Cheers

TD

Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:50 pm

Kai's only just been released and there is a lot of work being done still (see TD's list of work to be done thread Wink

) so once the problems are taken care of, things will improve a lot.

I think XBC has more features than Kai, but why would I need skins, when I can write my own UI Smile

XLink seems more flexible, if you get what I mean...

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Are there any tips on improve the connection between boxes?

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EDIT: And TD knows how to answer questions properly too Embarassed

Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:38 pm

also, when you are referring to pings, its not about who has a lower ping or what not on what service, its just who's close to you.

obviously the farther away, the higher the ping, so if you dont have many xlink users near you, you wont have better pings to them.