Latency emulation

Pilot_51 · 11-25-2007, 07:11 PM

I'll start off by explaining what my situation is and what I want to do.
I'm running a dedicated Battlefield 1942 server on a server box in my local network and I have a gaming PC. I want to join that server with my gaming PC while pinging a bit higher than 0ms to make things fair for the players outside the network, somewhere in the 50-100ms range. I don't want a fake ping, I'm not lame like that, I want true packet latency as the other players get it. My 0ms ping has caused one team to deny the use of my server for scrimmages and a few individuals have complained.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing specific to BF1942 to allow such latency emulation, which is why I'm posting in Networking Support rather than PC Gaming Support.

I've seen a few network shaping applications, but they don't seem to meet my needs. They either cost money or they're too limited, and I'm not about to pay money just to make my game slightly more fair for everyone else.
I don't want to limit anything other than a specific protocol port or application.
Does anyone know of any procedures or free applications I can use to accomplish what I want to do here?

11-25-2007, 07:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Pilot_51 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 47 OS: Windows XP Home SP2	Latency emulation I'll start off by explaining what my situation is and what I want to do. I'm running a dedicated Battlefield 1942 server on a server box in my local network and I have a gaming PC. I want to join that server with my gaming PC while pinging a bit higher than 0ms to make things fair for the players outside the network, somewhere in the 50-100ms range. I don't want a fake ping, I'm not lame like that, I want true packet latency as the other players get it. My 0ms ping has caused one team to deny the use of my server for scrimmages and a few individuals have complained. As far as I can tell, there's nothing specific to BF1942 to allow such latency emulation, which is why I'm posting in Networking Support rather than PC Gaming Support. I've seen a few network shaping applications, but they don't seem to meet my needs. They either cost money or they're too limited, and I'm not about to pay money just to make my game slightly more fair for everyone else. I don't want to limit anything other than a specific protocol port or application. Does anyone know of any procedures or free applications I can use to accomplish what I want to do here?