Post by leunas on Oct 6, 2006 15:23:10 GMT -5
Grey gamer site 2old2play has a comprehensive rundown on the upcoming gamer-only sorta-ISP, GameRail. GameRail promises to deliver a special Internet tube specifically for gaming, and if their numbers are accurate then we're looking at something incredible:
A company called GameRail is building a dedicated fiber optic network that will piggy back on the Internet and is specifically designed to only carry gaming traffic. How much faster is it? Using a ping command which is a network diagnostic utility, it would take you around 80-100 milliseconds for your ping to travel from the east coast to the west coast and back on today's Internet. Using the dedicated GameRail fiber optic network, pings around 30ms are seen. When you consider light travels 1000 miles every 8-10ms on a fiber optic line, the fastest this could possibly be with no hops is 25ms. So this is a very significant speed increase.
GameRail is currently offering a free beta test signup, and while they are currently limited to PC, they promise eventual, universal compatibility.
www.kotaku.com/gaming/gamerail/gameronly-network-tough-on-lag-soft-on-skin-205636.php