[yardstick]

Yes. Most people back in 2001 were not using fibre. Dial-up, DSL, etc are all much higher latency. In Dial-up you are easily talking at least 100ms slower, if not a lot more.

[mmh0000]

Ah. How I would have killed for a 100ms ping back in my 56k modem days. My average ping on any Quake2 server was 250-300ms.

It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.

[scaramanga]

man, from my memory, if you were getting 250, you were incredibly lucky and probably lived close to the exchange :)

300-350 was more the norm for where i was.

[b112]

It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.

That's because 2sec of ping is used to request 124 fonts, each using one char.