rec.autos.simulators

> I guess I'm "certain portion" in this so I'll revisit also..

> Had you ever watched the replay in question (that I did send you btw) you
> would have seen whom was at fault.  YOUR replay showed different.....  The
> end...  I thought we were done with this thread quite some time ago, why
> does it keep coming back?

> Certain Portion :-)

> snipped.  Besides, no amount of tact will work with
> > a certain portion of the population. I don't won't call people names in
> > my race recaps, but I won't hesitate to label a "stupid passing move" as
> > such, consequences be damned.

> > Now, would you rather see an recap from someone that calls it like he
> > sees it, or from somone that wouldn't say "shit" even if he had a
> > mouthful of it? I know which one I'd pick, and he wouldn't be fighting
> > with his conscience.
> ====================

> Well, heres the deal. I live about 11 miles from the CO. After putting in
> the midspan repeater, it working great with great quality and better
> latency. My cost is approx 69.00 month for 200hours usage. It includes two
> phone lines and has call waiting , forwarding, call id, and all of the
other
> basic stuff. Our other phone line was 44.00 a month for one phone and all
of
> the goodies like caller id, forwarding, ect. The extra 25.00 a month is
> chicken feed when you look at what i had verses what i got now. If I had
> added another phone line, the cost would have been compariable. We do not
> use nowhere near 200hours per month so that part fits good. The upfront
cost
> was 169.00 for the installation (which was a steel considering the time
they
> put in), and the Zyxel usb Isdn external TA modem. I canceled my regular
> phone service and haven't regretted it yet. The modem in pluged into the
UPS
> and so my service should be up even though we might have power failure.
>     In my neck of the woods, the phone company never suggested ISDN as an
> option to DSL. It was almost like they had to install it once I requested
> it. I thought that I was going to be forever banished to high latency and
> bad quality for living in the sticks but have since found out that there
is
> hope for those who have poor regular phone service and live within 60,000
> feet of their CO.
> grub


> > Other than the bill, you're going to love ISDN for online *** :)

> > -Larry

> > > Your wish has come true. I finally got this ISDN beast up and running.
> > > Instead of getting pings in the 500-850 range, I've been getting
around
> > 110
> > > on average tonight with a standard deviation of about 30. If it keeps
> > > working half this good, I will be on cloud nine. The only problem is
> that
> > I
> > > can't blame my mistakes on my connection anymore....:(

> >The only flaw is the 100 page document needed to define the word
"Respect"
> >:)

> That definition depends on if you're the President or not...<g>

> Eldred
> --
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> My .sig file is in the shop for repairs...

> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

> I believe you basically need a T1 connection to reliably host a server
> with the size of fields we are running in RASCAR.  Were you racing
> when we did Kansas?  We were running 2 races every Sat. and Eldreds
> server crashed after the first race.  We tried to take over the RAS
> Open server and it worked great.... for about 12 people.  As soon as
> we got around 14 or 15, everyones ping went though the roof.  I
> believe he is running it on a cable modem.  There are probably quite a
> few of us here with a decent extra PC sitting around that is capable
> of hosting a race, but probably very few of us have access to a T1 or
> greater connection (or are will to risk or jobs putting a server on
> our company's connection).  Really wish I had the connection, because
> I would love to have a dedicated N2002 server, but can't quite sell my
> wife on the idea of a T1.

> Brian Oster

> >I have 192 up, but until they increase the reliability of my Cable Modem
> >connection, I can't risk hosting a race.

> >Otherwise I'd be happy to.

> >Is 192 up enough for a 20 car field ?

> >Downstream is 1.5mbit so that should not be an issue.

> >-Larry

> >> I agree, and if I had the bandwidth I'd happily host the dedicated
> >> server for a week so Eldred could take a break, but unfortunatly I am
> >> limited to 128 up, so I can't.  And since its his server, if he feels
> >> like he needs a break...

> >> Brian Oster

> >> >Anything BUT #2.  I do not want to take a break.  I'm here to race.

> >> >-Larry

> >> >> The upcoming weeks NASCAR schedule is:
> >> >> Pocono(2 races)
> >> >> Indy(1 race)
> >> >> Watkins Glen(2 races)
> >> >> Michigan(1 race)
> >> >> Bristol(2 races)

> >> >> We've run all the above races at least once as shown above.  Our
> >choices
> >> >are:
> >> >> 1)Continue following the WC schedule anyway.  2)Take a break until
> >> >> Darlington(Sept 1).
> >> >> I'm NOT going to load the road conversions for N2k2, so don't ask...
> >> >> Comments?  I'm leaning towards 2) right now.

> >> >> Eldred

> >> >> --
> >> >> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> >> >> My .sig file is in the shop for repairs...

> >> >> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

> > I have access to an unused T1 if RASCAR, or anyone else needs it.

> > --
> > Tim White
> > INTRAC Motorsports
> > www.birds-i-view.com/intrac

> Tim, that would be great... any chance of getting up & running by 4pm
> eastern time?

> Brian

> Apparently not, LOL
> Sorry, just got back in town
> :(

> --
> Tim White
> www.intracmotorsports.com

> > > I have access to an unused T1 if RASCAR, or anyone else needs it.

> > > --
> > > Tim White
> > > INTRAC Motorsports
> > > www.birds-i-view.com/intrac

> > Tim, that would be great... any chance of getting up & running by
4pm
> > eastern time?

> > Brian