InSim Lag Kick

[[TC]»Elmo«]

Indeed.
Nowhere in the world is far away enough for distance alone to trigger the lag flag - you'd have to be routed from, say, the UK to the server (in Germany) via Australia for that to happen.

If the lag flag is regularly being tripped, it's either because you (or your ISP) are overloading the connection, or something, somewhere, is misconfigured or broken. In 99% of cases the problem can either be directly solved by the player or it goes away after a few hours.


Regarding how it actually works, the lag flag is part of the MCI packet, which is sent to the InSim at regular intervals (a few times a second in our case iirc). This means that we can't measure precisely how long someone's been lagging, but we can get rough idea of how long an isolated lag spell lasts (ie when someone alt-tabs) and whether the lag is happening regularly (bad connection).

(2012-01-26 15:43)bullet Wrote:  Imagine the flood of newbies raging at the forums because they have no clue why they got kicked.

People already get a message as to why they're being kicked right before the command is actually issued, so no problem there.

(2012-01-26 15:43)bullet Wrote:  Or if you're at a km run and having a break browsing YouTube or something.

If your browsing of YouTube is causing you to lag significantly (which does have a knock-on impact to the overall latency quality of the entire server) then I have no sympathy.