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Is a ping of 40ms noticeable? (gregtech.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by gregor@gregtech.eu to c/factorio@lemmy.world

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I might move my Hetzner VPS to Finland and I am from Slovenia, so it would be good to know how noticeable this is in Factorio.

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[–] rollmagma@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's not noticeable in anything

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On Factorio no. Keep in mind that factorio saves can get pretty large, so make sure to have the bandwidth to allow you to properly sync during connect.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 year ago

I have 20TB/mo, should be enough. And it's a blazing fast connection (it's a data-center, duh)

[–] PlexSheep 3 points 1 year ago

The only time where latency was noticable for me in factorio was when driving manually.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

No problems at all with 40 milliseconds.

When you start pushing 300 milliseconds, and have some jitter, then the latency will go up. If you open up the multiplayer debug information it can show you UPS/fps, multiplayer buffers