Those are good observations Wo and that was an interesting exercise to be sure, but unfortunately it proves nothing to dispute the main point of this article, close, but no cigar as they say. I did wonder about packet transfers/communication during the swing but mostly assumed there was none, though someone with the meter problem should try it while the meter is actually acting up, that would be more telling.
As a side note I would simply be amazed if there was really anyone that truly did not experience any meter stutter, ever. It could be possible but very very unlikely, if a person always played at the same time of day (off peak hours) AND had a good system, I could see it. Also having the right setup, XP + Chrome + certain high speed modem, etc, there might actually be an ultimate winning combination that only a few lucky people have stumbled onto.
For the rest of us, 95% of users, we have the meter issues and they are there much more prevailant at certain times of day AND in Ready-go tournaments, not a coincidence I’m afraid and no everyone’s Antivirus is not trying to update for 2 hours at the same time while the problems are occuring.
Having no communication during the swing (if even true over prolonged periods of time WHILE there IS a problem, ie no problem with stutter there is bound to be no packet transfers) , unplugging the internet while swinging are interesting experiments, however they sure dont explain why people with high-end computers with under 20% CPU usage at all times have problems.
If there are people that really dont have meter troubles, maybe they can pipe in and tell us their specs such as Operating System, browser, CPU, RAM, time of day played mostly, etc. Wo if you dont have problems, tell us more as maybe this will help.
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Jim I’m glad you posted that and posted that the link has to be pasted. What you posted supports my argument perfectly. When you did that test, you were “pinging” a certain server, that is how your connection was measured, and at certain times of the day and depending on which server your communicating with, you will get different results.
So heres the clincher, if you could ping the WGT servers during the peak times, I’d pretty much guarantee that you would have a B or less rating, and some stutter, just like 95% of us do.
Try this yourself, in that test you can pick several servers to ping (what I just did), you’ll see that you get different results with each one.
Hence, WGT servers are greatly important to the performance of the game and the meter, really that could never be disputed anyway. A persons system is also greatly important and your overall connection to the internet is as well, everything is important and I know when my problems are only at the really busy times, that it is NOT my computer doing something in the background for 3 hours and is most likely very busy servers giving a less than optimal connection. Its obvious too because I see other game issues like graphics pausing, loading times longer than usual etc all at the same time as the meter stutter.