Within a US city or state it's very rare to have much packet loss at all. It's very easy to spot using the builtin netgraph in Quake Live and other games. Play

Within a US city or state it's very rare to have much packet loss at all. It's very easy to spot using the builtin netgraph in Quake Live and other games. Players that are separated by thousands of miles should not be playing competitive FPS games together. It's physically impossible to make it a consistently good experience.