Udp

[Demisis_P2P]

IIRC, when you disable UDP Graal falls back to TCP to transfer data. UDP is faster than TCP, but only because UDP skips certain data checks and handshaking in order to achieve that extra speed.

I had a lot of issues with UDP though. Namely, with UDP enabled, in some cases I'd enter a room with a bunch of players inside and see most players moving but one or two players standing completely still in the position that they were in when I entered the room. I couldn't hurt these players and with clientside damage they couldn't hurt me either.
When one of these "frozen" players entered the room after I was already inside their character would be shown stationary in the doorway, essentially trapping me in that room because I couldn't hurt them.
After being banned several times for "hacking" I made a video of the phenomenon and Era eventually made all their damage serverside, which meant frozen players could kill me now, but I still couldn't see them moving or shooting me and couldn't fight back.

Upgrading to cable and disabling UDP fixed the issue for me, but now I also occasionally get the "Your Graal is running slow..." error as well. My ping is usually between 250 and 400, but even during sessions where I have a consistently high ping the chance of the error appearing seems random. I think it may have to do with only the speed at which you are uploading your character's position?

P.S. "wireless cable" is an oxym0r0n.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

P.S. "wireless cable" is an oxym0r0n.

Hardly. Wireless router, cable internet.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Hardly. Wireless router, cable internet.

In Australia "Wireless" is its own type of internet, served straight from the ISP. I just did a Google search for "wireless internet" and all the results on the first page are from Australia so I guess it's not a popular option overseas?
Basically you get a USB thumbdrive sized wireless modem with a SIM card in it, and you plug it into your PC to connect to the internet via 3G cell phone towers, which currently have a max speed of 42mb/s (getting upgraded to 80mb/s soon) so about comparable to fiber internet speeds at a fraction of the cost of laying hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber cable. It seems like it'll become the popular option for internet here in the future, but generally the upload rates are very poor because of the nature of the service.

Some people here call it "wireless cable" or "wireless broadband" (including the ISPs themselves) because they associate those terms with the speed of the service, not the infrastructure.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

In Australia "Wireless" is its own type of internet, served straight from the ISP. I just did a Google search for "wireless internet" and all the results on the first page are from Australia so I guess it's not a popular option overseas?
Basically you get a USB thumbdrive sized wireless modem with a SIM card in it, and you plug it into your PC to connect to the internet via 3G cell phone towers, which currently have a max speed of 42mb/s (getting upgraded to 80mb/s soon) so about comparable to fiber internet speeds at a fraction of the cost of laying hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber cable. It seems like it'll become the popular option for internet here in the future, but generally the upload rates are very poor because of the nature of the service.

Some people here call it "wireless cable" or "wireless broadband" (including the ISPs themselves) because they associate those terms with the speed of the service, not the infrastructure.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT.

Sorry, don't live in Australia. Point nullified.

However, I do know what wireless internet is... but it is never referred to as "wireless cable" or any of the sort here. It's typically called satellite. Cable is reserved for actual cable internet, DSL is reserved for DSL, broadband is for general high-speed terminology, and most of the time if you hear any sort of combination of those terms with wireless, it means "I've got cable internet hooked up to a wireless home network". Satellite just isn't popular enough over here to claim the "wireless" term yet.