You're right, Jack, the MS is just an index of servers.
The coloured bars on the in-game server list give a good indication of what your experience on a server will be like. Servers that are all red or red/yellow are going to give you problems at a certain number of players. Yellow or yellow/green is normal. All green is an extra-special good server.
![[Image: connectionqualitybars.jpg]](http://www.26things.com/ac/forum/connectionqualitybars.jpg)
A poor connection might not just be the bandwidth being exceeded, but could be the actual line quality, ie. too many lost packets. It is nothing to do with ping, therefore distance from the server is irrelevant.
You can find out what the approximate bandwidth capacity will be by pressing F9 followed by F2 for any server.
![[Image: extendedserverinfo.jpg]](http://www.26things.com/ac/forum/extendedserverinfo.jpg)
The -[pRo]- server has a lot of errors up to 8 players, but then gets much worse at 9 to 11, then gives constant errors from 12 players up. The owner of this server, if he doesn't just forget it altogether, should limit the server to 8 players.
The coloured bars on the in-game server list give a good indication of what your experience on a server will be like. Servers that are all red or red/yellow are going to give you problems at a certain number of players. Yellow or yellow/green is normal. All green is an extra-special good server.
A poor connection might not just be the bandwidth being exceeded, but could be the actual line quality, ie. too many lost packets. It is nothing to do with ping, therefore distance from the server is irrelevant.
You can find out what the approximate bandwidth capacity will be by pressing F9 followed by F2 for any server.
The -[pRo]- server has a lot of errors up to 8 players, but then gets much worse at 9 to 11, then gives constant errors from 12 players up. The owner of this server, if he doesn't just forget it altogether, should limit the server to 8 players.