> Haven't seen much feedback on improvement for online racing. For me if
> anything, I've had more winking and disconnects than before - maybe its just
> my ISP having problems at the moment. I even dabbled with reducing the
> connection speed on my 56k modem to 28800, but so far the quality reading is
> .8 or less, when before it was in the .9 and better range. So whats the
> general response - improvement of not?
It's that time of year when you will be disconnected more and more till
just after Christmas. After Jan 30th (or abouts) the net will magically
clear up and become almost perfect again.
Try it you'll see it's not GPLs fault.
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Atm GPL 1.2 has a 100% disco rate for me when previously I would go months
without a disco.
I suspect sync method = 1 and will test some more tonight and will post my
findings
Anyone else had similar problems since installing 1.2? and how did you cure
it?
Marc
During this time, we have also been monitoring the web more closely, and
it has been extremely bad during peak hours. Also, my previously great
cable conection has gone to hell also, due to increased splitting of the
available bandwidth with more people on it.
1.2 is much better for on-line racing, but the net is getting worse. No
matter how good the code is, if a lot of packets are getting lost, or
the latency is varying and getting extremely long, racing on-line will
not be pretty. Check your local connection, and your route to the hosts
you race on.
I used to have a ping of less than 160 msec to Alison Hine, and lately
it has been mostly 800 or more. I used to be able to host 16 or 18
racers, now I have problems with 9. Don't balme 1.2, because it is
really great when it works. Check your ISP, and try racing off peak
hours.
Kevin Caldwell
Calgary, Canada
> I have also suffered clock smashes and discos on servers that I perviously
> have always had great connections to.
> Atm GPL 1.2 has a 100% disco rate for me when previously I would go months
> without a disco.
> I suspect sync method = 1 and will test some more tonight and will post my
> findings
> Anyone else had similar problems since installing 1.2? and how did you cure
> it?
> Marc
> > Haven't seen much feedback on improvement for online racing. For me if
> > anything, I've had more winking and disconnects than before - maybe its
> just
> > my ISP having problems at the moment. I even dabbled with reducing the
> > connection speed on my 56k modem to 28800, but so far the quality reading
> is
> > .8 or less, when before it was in the .9 and better range. So whats the
> > general response - improvement of not?
Rick
testing tonight using 1.2 and old sync method meant my connection was a
reliable as ever. Not one disco in several races, also no more clock smashes
/ mega warps.
I will test sync method 1 again another time, but atm I will stick with the
super relaible (for me) sync method 0
Marc
> >> Haven't seen much feedback on improvement for online racing. For me if
> >> anything, I've had more winking and disconnects than before - maybe its
> >just
> >> my ISP having problems at the moment. I even dabbled with reducing the
> >> connection speed on my 56k modem to 28800, but so far the quality reading
> >is
> >> .8 or less, when before it was in the .9 and better range. So whats the
> >> general response - improvement of not?
> > before you start blaming GPL for these, do a "Inspect" on the server
> >you're connecting to. I've found MANY time outs along the way at
> >various places between 4:pm and 12:midnite EST.
> Inspect? Is that another neat utility that I've missed, or is that part of
> GSB(which I don't use)?
> Eldred
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>> Haven't seen much feedback on improvement for online racing. For me if
>> anything, I've had more winking and disconnects than before - maybe its
>just
>> my ISP having problems at the moment. I even dabbled with reducing the
>> connection speed on my 56k modem to 28800, but so far the quality reading
>is
>> .8 or less, when before it was in the .9 and better range. So whats the
>> general response - improvement of not?
> before you start blaming GPL for these, do a "Inspect" on the server
>you're connecting to. I've found MANY time outs along the way at
>various places between 4:pm and 12:midnite EST.
Eldred
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Exactly the same here :-)
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