Starlink vs fiber optics for better latency - Page 2

On April 16 2024 15:01 tec27 wrote:

The answer is really "it depends". Modern bnet uses a combination of STUN (to identify what your various IP addresses might be and possible ports, as well as what type of NAT you might be behind) and TURN (to relay packets between users who can't connect otherwise). STUN will often allow holepunching to work for a lot of home routers, but with NATs that are more strict it will fail (especially if the 2 players that are trying to connect both have more strict NATs). In that case TURN should still allow them to connect, but I have no idea where Blizzard hosts their servers for this, how reliable they are, how well the location choice works, etc. So, to be safe from that ever occurring, forwarding ports (or enabling UPNP on your router to make this happen automatically) is still a reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, people that most need to forward ports are also generally the least able to do it (either because they lack the knowledge or they are on some network with infrastructure they do not control).

Generally the game will send packets to both the player's IP and the TURN server until it verifies it can reach the player directly, so I doubt it should really add super noticeable time to joining a lobby. More likely it's the thing Blizzard changed in a recent patch randomly to scan people's maps/replays for duplicates when joining lobbies, and that person has a large map+replay collection that takes a while to scan.

On April 18 2024 00:20 iFU.pauline wrote:
I highly doubt a non wired connection outperform internet fiber in term of latency, then it also depends on the paths and nodes you are traversing to reach your destination but regardless, non wired connection is heavily prone to interference, and you can forget about constant rate in term of bandwidth. Also, satellites are orbiting, therefore paths are constantly changing depending of plenty of constraints such as nodes saturation, network load balance etc... so latency may fluctuate a lot which is the worst imo when you're playing. Starlink was not made for low latency gaming so I would avoid such solution unless you have no choice

On April 19 2024 23:21 WGT-Baal wrote:


possibly a stupid question but what exactly do you mean my moving? do you archive them and remove them entirely from SC (and thus you cant open them at all from the game) or do you just take them out of the main /maps folder (and if so, where and how are you able to link them to the game so you can watch them)