Interesting article from Riot Games on how they built their own 'internet' to support their game.

[HappyLittleChap]

One of Riot Games Network Engineers (of League of Legend fame) has written a couple of article on why games lag and what they've done about it to improve their game taking a quite drastic step. Makes for fascination reading. I thought a few here might be interested in them:-

 

 

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-time-applications-part-i

 

http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/fixing-internet-real-time-applications-part-ii

 

Enjoy.

[UK_Wildcats_Fans]

Very interesting reading.  Thank you for sharing.

[Netduma Fraser]

I'll try and read that later but I am not surprised. When we were testing LoL for Host Analysis I saw some of the most stable pings I've ever seen! Like a flat 25ms the entire time.