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Has anyone else noticed a game processing slowdown the last few days?
1519 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago
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glyn
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You mean host running late or players not submitting Turns as quickly?

Canada Day in middle of work week... a lot of really busy hungover Canadians.

Considering were 1/10th the population of the US, Canadians at times have a huge influence on the internet... we've managed to crash Fark.com a few times and whenever a Canadian issue is discussed, "wow, there is a lot of us" tends to be a common observation.

Nothing to do here... really good internet (Thank you Chretien!)... long winters.

Then Americans preparing for July 4th this weekend...
1519 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes ago
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jan iii sobieski
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Really good internet? Maybe compared to the US... unfortunately we do have very similar ISP monopoly/non-competition problems.
1519 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes ago
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glyn
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Internet service is based on two parts; the internet backbone and the 'last-mile' internet providers.

Businesses in Canada don't take risks because are banks are zero-risk lenders... and laying telecom lines is too great of an expense for most commercial enterprises to tackle in Canada. That means without the government upgrading the nations internet backbone, no one would. Were just too few people spread out too far.

That was over 15 years ago... and Canadian servers are STILL slightly faster than Americans... and our backbone hasn't been upgraded by Federal government since then. We almost had a billion dollar investment in 2001... but Paul Martin killed it.

Since then commercial entities have started adding to the backbone; about 5 years ago when if became apparent NetFlix was murdering our entire nations internet on the back end and the 'last-mile' providers couldn't supply what they were selling.

The backbone is GREAT, however were also using it a lot!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Canada

"According to the CIRA 2013 Factbook, Canadians spend more time online than anyone else in the world"

"Canada has some of the lowest internet standards among OECD countries, as a result of high costs and slow internet speeds"

"Canada has the largest number of file sharers per capita in the world"



Canadians are also huge push-overs... we will tolerate a lot more than most will... it is evident in all corners of our society... the whole 'apologizing' thing is less about being nice, and more about being non-confrontational and accepting ones lot in life.
1519 days, 17 hours, 1 minutes ago
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glyn
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The best judge of an internet backbone... is latency.

When I send data from West to East coast, it will take many different paths, but should take the quickest route... that being the faster servers and usually whatever requires the fewest nodes.

Technically a data packet could go from West coast to Japan, Russia, Europe, and then East coast... but the worlds internet servers update a list so they know what route to send data... it does this by trial and error initially and judges them based on latency. This is a gross oversimplification technically, but in case you aren't aware of this stuff, you have a general idea now.



American data packets often will take the West to East coast journey NORTH of the border, because our backbone can get it there faster.

Netflix really ruins things because even the fastest backbone crumbles to a crawl when overloaded... we will probably experience internet outages in the near future and why the telecom are pushing so hard for dual-internet lanes.

Basically discourage over-consumption of internet is all they can do if they aren't willing to improve the backbone... and charging more for less is one way to go about it.