Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Specialty Hosting and Markets : Game Servers : Network Carriers (Level3, InterNAP, nLAYER, etc)

[Jay Singh]

When renting a dedicated server or a box for community purposes, will the network carriers most hosts use affect how fast or slow your game server gets players?

[JonBiloh]

nLayer is our choice, it has proven EXCELLENT.

For the record, we also use Level3 and Internap in some of our locations, but we prefer nLayer when available.

[WHU-Mike]

Yes, the better the network the better the ping performance. nLayer, InterNap, and Level3 are great for game servers.

[24x7group]

I am sure Level3 is one of the better ones around

[edge100x]

Level3 definitely doesn't beat all . It's not bad, but a good tier 2 can easily beat it. Mzima, InterNAP, or nLayer are generally going to perform better than straight Level3, and they'll offer the additional benefit of better redundancy, as well.