DNA Games new site and UTVi Flat rate service

Styx

DNA Games, Ireland's largest group of game servers, has launched their new web site. DNA Games uses the UTV Internet network.

The new site's features include:

Syndicated newsfeeds from the world's largest gaming sites, including Blues News, GameSpy and 3dGamers updated hourly. Coverage of console gaming news from around the world.

12 dedicated game servers running over 20 multiplayer games including Half-Life, CounterStrike, TFC, Soldat, Unreal Tournament, Buzzybots and TetriNET.
Priority access is given to all UTV Internet customers including reserved slots and access to passworded servers. Also all UTV Internet customers get optimised routing to all game servers from *anywhere* in Ireland.

Multiplayer Trivia and webgames section including the best web games from across the world.

Free web hosting for Irish and UK based clans including web space, forums, news systems and web portals.

For futher details either email me or post to our forum.

(post edited..more games pitch, less sales pitch)

Dustaz

Nice site

LoBo

good work UTVi on the new product & game servers + site. Maybe it would be nice to take out a banner ad (top right) with boards.ie to help support their continued existance... as this thread in particular seems a bit advertising-my-product.

Mr. Fancypants

Any chance of a RTCW server going up any time soon? I think gameire has one but it is a few releases behind...

Styx

Originally posted by LoBo
as this thread in particular seems a bit advertising-my-product.

Yea, it's blatent jumping on the flat rate bandwagon by me to advertise the new web site perhaps I should tone down the sale pitch a bit..

Pepe LeFrits

Ahh

/me remembers Styx's "Hey Player, You gonna change your name, yeh?" bind on the old DNAGames TFC servers

At least i think it was you, it was somebody from DNA anyway.

Pinging 380 to the DNAGames servers as opposed to 160 to Games1 on Eircom 56k dialup - Getting routed all over the place

tuxy

yes i get very high pings on dnagames server also
i have isdn
ping to dnagames in cs
130 using oceanfree
130 usign utv internet

ping to esat cs servers
60 using oceanfree
130 using utv internet

Styx

Originally posted by kaids
/me remembers Styx's "Hey Player, You gonna change your name, yeh?" bind on the old DNAGames TFC servers

Pinging 380 to the DNAGames servers as opposed to 160 to Games1 on Eircom 56k dialup - Getting routed all over the place

yup, that was me The routing can be poor sometimes, with a direct dial up I've had pings of <120 to our game servers....there's a uper fast pipe for al trafic between Dublin and Belfast (where the servers are located)

tuxy

ok im now getting a 80 ping on the server with oceanfree and 110 with utvi
Styx do u have any idea why my ping would be lower with oceanfree if the servers are on the same backbone as utv ?
i did a trace route and the problem seems to be with the first hop
the first hop using utvi is 80 with oceanfree its 40

Styx

Originally posted by tuxx
...the problem seems to be with the first hop
the first hop using utvi is 80 with oceanfree its 40

Can you mail me the tracerts and I'll have a look what could causing that.

tuxy

well its just as easy to post it here
http://www.boards.ie/members/tuxx/tracert.txt
thanks for having a look at it for me

sceptre

Originally posted by Styx
Yea, it's blatent jumping on the flat rate bandwagon by me to advertise the new web site perhaps I should tone down the sale pitch a bit..

Just get Scott to throw a few quid DeVore's way for banner ads (seriously). With the amount of support and customers you'll get via boards (for the new service), you know it would make commercial sense

The Cigarette Smoking Man

Originally posted by Styx
Also all UTV Internet customers get optimised routing to all game servers from *anywhere* in Ireland.

Well you get some of the worst routing in Ireland from every other ISP. But it's not UTV Internet's fault, it's Nevada Telecom their network provider. What UTVi should do is give Nevada a call and get them to sort it out.

This was discussesed in the Ireland Offline thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63228&perpage=20&pagenumber=6

Styx

Hi, The Cigarette Smoking Man

To clarify: if any UTVi customers connect to the Dublin POP then make a network request for any of the game servers based in Belfast they get routed straight to Belfast using a direct connection that Nevada has, rather than going via the internet from Dublin to Nevada UK then back in again to Belfast. This *should* mean lower ping times/less hops, but I've passed tuxx's tracert to the network team for comments/investigation.

Unfortunately I can't get into official discussions about routing etc, I have to leave that to the Management team , so I'm just posting this as admin of the gaming service using UTVi network.

Chuck

Styx

Originally posted by sceptre


Just get Scott to throw a few quid DeVore's way for banner ads (seriously). With the amount of support and customers you'll get via boards (for the new service), you know it would make commercial sense

/me looks at banners
Looks like Scott did and all

Chuck

Mercury_Tilt

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Styx

Charles <aka> Chuck

po0k

An Operation Flashpoint Server would be sweeet

Styx

we've got one hi-spec machine ready to host a new game, but I've also got folks hounding me for a UT2k3, Battle Field 1942 and elite force may just try each game for a week each see what happens.

phreak

UT2k3

nuff said

damnyanks

I'm on utv 30 euro thingy and seem to ping best on dna servers

Styx

Yup, that's the way it should be. There's a fast pipe directly from the Dublin POP to our game servers in Belfast, which should mean latency is much less than other servers on the 'net.