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Yea I recently started hosting a very niche game server in Guam (action quake 2) because of its central location. It’s 95ms from Melbourne, AU, 110ms from Auck

Yea I recently started hosting a very niche game server in Guam (action quake 2) because of its central location. It’s 95ms from Melbourne, AU, 110ms from Auckland, NZ and about 120ms from west coast US. Central US is probably about 150ms. All of which are very close playable. Living in Australia, as a teen FPS gamer it was always frustrating to know that no matter what tech comes next, the physical distance is the limiting factor. So Guam is a cool workaround. I used oneqode. Really easy, and affordable.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago
Action Quake 2, jeez that's a blast from the past. Precursor to counter strike if I recall correctly. RA2 was my jam back in the day, migrating to RA3.
coufu 3y ago
As someone who grew up in Guam, that’s really interesting to hear the island being used as a workaround for ping times. I was always frustrated getting 100-200ms on games like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament while everyone in the US had much lower pings. Then again, I was playing on US servers. Maybe if I was privy to people using Guam servers as a workaround to bridge the ping gap in this way, I could have used it to my advantage and had the lowest pings on Guam servers haha. I’d probably still lose though, but at least I wouldn’t be able to blame it on ping time.