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Wanderer Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Norway

Hey!

When I type a command in the command line, like "east" or something. It's like there's a delay on it, around 2/10 of a second or something. Anyway to reduce that delay and make it shorter?

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:37 pm

Are you sure this isn't just the normal lag between you and the MUD server?

At a command prompt ping the mudserver and see what it fires back at you. If you're getting times of 200ms there's your 2/10 of a second.

2/10 of a second isn't that much to worry about in a mud though, it may make a difference in a quick action game like CS or Quake (where the gits sitting at the server with 18ms pings always win!) but I wouldn't consider 2/10 of a second a big deal in a MUD. Packet loss though...

:)

-G-

Wanderer Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Norway

I know... however still sometimes annoying... anyway to check your ping to the mud server?

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:04 pm

From within zMUD. I believe there was a topic about this recently where you can use COM and a ping program that acts as a server. Easiest way is to fire up a command prompt (depends what version of windows, you're using, but it's START|RUN|CMD.exe (for NT/2K/XP) or command.com (for 9x/ME). And at the prompt type:

ping <mudserver> where <mudserver> is the address of the MUD. e.g. ping mymud.mudplace.com

OR if you can't be bothered with that you could set up a couple of aliases (if using win2k/XP) viz:

#ALIAS zp {#LAUNCH {cmd /C ping %host >ping.txt}}
#ALIAS zps {#FILE 1 ping.txt;#TYPE 1;#CLOSE 1}

Usage: zp then wait for the command window to disappear, then type zps to get the stats.

HTH,

-G-

Wanderer Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Norway

Anything like those aliases for windows 98?

I got quite an old PC

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:35 pm

Yeah in the zp alieas change cmd to command.com

-G-