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Originally Posted by Kanati8869

Anyone see that bigdog is a wikipedia star?

GameRail was a private network designed to improve the performance of online gaming. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, GameRail used its heavily peered, geographically distributed network gateways in combination with various Internet Service Providers (ISP) in an attempt to reduce latency (network delay ,“lag” or “ping”), packet loss, and jitter (delay variation) in online games.

GameRail seeks to act as a bridge between ISPs and game servers. A client application is used to reroute gaming traffic away from an ISP’s typical connection through the Internet and instead onto GameRail’s private network, where it is routed directly to the desired game server. This approach tries to provide a customer with the shortest and fastest connection possible.

In Summer 2007, 10,000 First Person Shooter (FPS) and Real Time Strategy (RTS) servers were peered with the GameRail network. GameRail suggested that with peering up to 34 million homes with broadband connections in the U.S. and Canada could use the service. GameRail initially targeted FPS/RTS games such as Counter-Strike, America’s Army, Quake, and ETQW and Massively Multiplayer Online Games(MMOGS) beginning with Fury because of their appreciation for a high quality, low latency connection. Support for console games was under development.

As of April 18, 2008 the network has been shutdown. "It is with deep regret to announce that the GameRail network has been discontinued at this time. Thank you to the gamers who have participated in the GameRail trial and support of its development as we worked to solve the issues of latency and network quality and their impact on gaming. We believe that latency and network quality will continue to affect the gaming experience and while we are still believers in the GameRail concept, the market does not appear to be ready to support a standalone network for gaming at this time."

[edit] User Experience

GameRail has gone through several releases of their desktop client with mixed success. There has been much controversy over whether the product actually works (examples like this GotFrag Thread) and is seemingly hit-and-miss for most users even in forums that they promote such as this. While some users have experienced improvement, many have seen either no improvement or higher latencies. While "in theory" the product should work, reality suggests that the problem of Internet latency in the United States is inordinately complex and likely to be insurmountable for a 3rd Party to resolve. With this product, there can be no guarantees.

For games such as MMOs, many users don't appear to need the services as many are latency-resistant (such as World of Warcraft).

With no real endorsement of the product by their target demographic (e.g. professional gamers) and no reviews of the product either online or in print media, the product lacks legitimacy.

* Reviews from target demographic, Texas Team Players Texasteamplayers.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamerail

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my dad was never drunk when he beat men that was mom.

honestly, I do not even respond to those types of comments. they have to be a lot more specific first.

that and having our community respond en masse just makes us look like a clan

stupid cell phone "beat ME" will mod when I get to a pc

Originally Posted by laggyNgroovy

my dad was never drunk when he beat men that was mom.

honestly, I do not even respond to those types of comments. they have to be a lot more specific first.

that and having our community respond en masse just makes us look like a clan

Originally Posted by laggyNgroovy

stupid cell phone "beat ME" will mod when I get to a pc

LOL saved for posterity

But yeah - I rarely (I think once, perhaps twice) ever comment on YouTube. It's a cesspool. End of Story.