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by **Andre Warrin** » Tue, 15 May 2001 17:04:58

A friend of mine had bigtime problems with racing GPL and N4 online,
his pings were miserable and he got way too much disco's.
So we did a complete reinstall of Windows 98 (his pc was a total mess
:) , reinstalled GPL, I changed his modem for another one and we tried
GPL.
It seemed to be solved, his ping times were normal now in VROC.
We went online and tried a race. Everything seemed ok, good quality,
no warpings.
But after a minute or 5 there was a message at the top of the screen,
something like '10035 Error on Network Device'.
The quality bar shot to the top and we got a disco.
This happens every time on his pc..

I mess around with his core.ini after that, there's something like
'use network' in the core.ini and I set it off, but it didn't help.

If this is any help: he used to have a network card in his pc but not
anymore. Maybe GPL is still looking for that network card somehow?

Any ideas/help would be very much appreciated..
I want to kick his ***online :)

Andre

by **Ian** » Tue, 15 May 2001 18:03:45

Two things spring to mind

1, Is the modem disconnecting ? If it is, the dial up networking might be
set to disconnect after x minutes of inactivity, this can be changed from
Internet options / connections, then click on the DUN you're using and
settings, then in the dial up settings box press advanced and uncheck the
box that says disconnect if idle for ....

2, The ISP is goosed ;)

--
Ian P
<email invalid due to spam>

by **Andre Warrin** » Tue, 15 May 2001 18:01:48

>Two things spring to mind

>1, Is the modem disconnecting ? If it is, the dial up networking might be
>set to disconnect after x minutes of inactivity, this can be changed from
>Internet options / connections, then click on the DUN you're using and
>settings, then in the dial up settings box press advanced and uncheck the
>box that says disconnect if idle for ....

It doesn't disconnect - we can reconnect to the race immediately after
a disco..

He has the same provider as me, same area, and I allmost never have
disco's..

Andre

by **Roger Squire** » Tue, 15 May 2001 21:31:32

You might try one of the various modem connection tweak progs out there, and
use small packets and limit it to 26400 with a modem string. It is odd you
are getting 'network device' error without discoing from the isp tho, that's
the only time I get that error. You might run the SysMon prog in the
background to see if it catches any strange activity on the modem.

rms

by **Attis Fardeli** » Wed, 16 May 2001 00:11:10

I get the same error when I race N4 online. But it is not always it discos
from the server, sometimes it manages to get the quality and ping back to
normal.

I recently signed up for ADSL but the provider have some problems getting it
to work. So in the meanwhile I have to use a 56k modem. And the connection
has goten really bad since I signed for that ADSL thing. So I guess the ISP
have done something with the line.

But I don't think it has to do with any networkcard I got this error message
before I even owned a networkcard.

/attis

by **Jim** » Wed, 16 May 2001 02:09:37

I had this exact same problem. Win98 and 56k LT WinModem. I'd get "Error on
Network Device" and then about 10-20 seconds later be disconned from the
server. Happened *every* time I raced online and I never managed more than
maybe one minute on track before the error kicked in. My modem connection
was still working properly and I was still online when I got back to the
Windows desktop.

Solution? I updated my modem drivers to Lucent version 5.97.

I now connect at either 52,000 or 53,333 bps and have relatively few
problems racing online (I get discoed about once every 10 races, which I
guess is about once every 10-15 hours, including practice and qualifying).

Hope that helps
JimSeamus

by **+G2** » Wed, 16 May 2001 06:20:02

www.56k.com

by **Andre Warrin** » Wed, 16 May 2001 23:20:21

Yep, exactly the same problem my friend has..

I allready replaced his modem for another one, but both modems gave
the same problems. But the first modem was a Winmodem, the second one
is an old 28k8 modem.. Thx for the tip, I'll try a newer modem from
work on his pc..

Andre

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