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Old 05-06-2021, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkman View Post
Just started playing LOTRO last year after being away from those games for awhile (I was a WoW addict)

We have cable at home and it's not bad, how does the connection/lag hold up with the wifi down here?
There is no lag with MUDs, because you're basically just using a telnet client to access it. If there's lag, it'd usually be a choke in the network somewhere, or a server issue. Because almost all muds are free, they're usually kept on hosted servers for free, which means a LOT of people are using the same server for a variety of things (usually the host runs a business so he gets to write off the server, and he gives out space on it to hobbyists).

Some muds have horrible connections to their servers. Ours is cloud-based and there's very rarely any lag at all. Downtime is also rare.