I don't know if it's just me or my puter or if it's only unique to Australia maybe, but some days, like today, the site is just un-playable. The boat jumps all over the place, and even if that's not happening it either steers very quickly, or very slowly or it's slow to respond to commands and I mostly have little control. Bloody frustrating.
It's happened at some time or other to everybody. It's a problem of network latency. Today we do have only one server. It's located in Austin or Atlanta (USA).
Every time you give a command your computer sends it to the server and it sends back the new boat parms.
Latency is normally 0.1 sec or less. But sometimes it degrades to 1 sec or more. When info between your computer and the server takes more than 0.25 sec you have jumps.
Latency is due to network problems (congestion, transmit errors...) and are usually related with:
*Your computer (you have other programs running network hungry). Standard procedure: computer re-start.
*Your Access connection (shared with others in your lan or in you cable or DSL zone)
*Transpacific congestion
*Server problems (those affecting everybody). Starting procedure restart the server.
All in all a un-solvable problem affecting all internet on-line applications. Most of times nothing can be done and its time for a beer (or go real sailing).
Amando.
