Waiting for host... wtf!

Sometimes, people say i lag.

And my screen says 'Waiting for host...' i've encountered that some while ago but then never before and now it has come back! What does it mean? Is the host to slow or is it me? (Although its quite impossible its me because i have process explorer and there were no programs running that could interfere)

Its you who is lagging (you can probably blame your web connection/firewall?) not the host. If you see many people lagging at the same time you can blame the host.

Omg ok. I surrender =p

But i think i've already found the problem, when someone else is doing stuff on the internet i lag.

yeah thats make sense I had the same problem when I used wireless connection

Playing with a wireless connection sucks. But if you've got any program like bittorrent, limewire running in the background it might slow down the connection to make you lagg.

Originally Posted by Darkey

Playing with a wireless connection sucks.

You tell me :p Never again!

Try playing with dial-up....

If you want to know who good your internet connection is at the moment try this:

Speedtest

It's an online speed test.

Originally Posted by DarkAngelAzazel

If you want to know who good your internet connection is at the moment try this:

Speedtest

It's an online speed test.

i took the test, my download speed is 1228 kbps, my upload speed is 217 kbps, is that good?

Originally Posted by austin20111

i took the test, my download speed is 1228 kbps, my upload speed is 217 kbps, is that good?

No. That's terrible. But their servers don't seem to respond well. I've tried other speed test sites and normally I clock out at about 55kk dl and 9k upload at 50 miles away and yet I can do another test 15 miles away and get 5k dl and .9k ul. So their servers have a lot to do with the test results.

If it says ''Waiting for host'' the game is waiting for the host.

Period =p

These are my results:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 4375 kbps (546.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 429 kbps (53.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Edit: and that with 2x 16k inet o_O

Originally Posted by D.I.Y Death

No. That's terrible. But their servers don't seem to respond well. I've tried other speed test sites and normally I clock out at about 55kk dl and 9k upload at 50 miles away and yet I can do another test 15 miles away and get 5k dl and .9k ul. So their servers have a lot to do with the test results.

oh, well i live in minnesota and i used the Chicago, IL server, maybye thats the problem?

I had waiting for host AS host! :P

I'm pretty sure I've had the weirdest waiting for host message of you all.

I had it in single player.