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I love racing GPL on VROC. However, I keep getting disconnected too
frequently, even though I've tweaked my DUN settings.

I reckon I get discoed mostly at the same time as another competitor
voluntarily disconnects (often because they are so far behind)

Anyone know if I could minimise this effect?

Cheers

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% I love racing GPL on VROC. However, I keep getting disconnected too
% frequently, even though I've tweaked my DUN settings.

% I reckon I get discoed mostly at the same time as another competitor
% voluntarily disconnects (often because they are so far behind)

% Anyone know if I could minimise this effect?

One thing to double check... make sure you don't have your modem or
internet connection set to automatically disconnect after a certain
amount of inactivity.  For some reason GPL online racing isn't seen as
activity (but VROC traffic is).  Also turn the meters on in GPL (ALT-M I
believe) and watch them out of the corner of your eye.  If you see the
Quality bar start to climb just before disconnecting, there is a chance
that your ISP is bogging down its bandwidth.

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Have you tried connecting at a slower speed?  I've heard people say that if
you connect at greater than 33.6k it can cause disconnection in some
circumstances.  GPL needs fast pings more than a high bandwidth (for
clients), so theres no need to connect at 48-56k.  Go into DUN, right-click
on your connection and select "properties", then click "configure", then the
"connection" tab, and then "advanced" and enter the following in the "Extra
settings" field - "AT+MS=11".  This will limit your connection speed to 33k.
Probably won't make any difference but it's worth a try.  :)
Simon.

On Fri, 26 May 2000 15:25:58 GMT, Simon Brown

It makes all the difference in the world, since a V.90 (56k) retrains
all the time (resulting 10-20 seconds of effectively lost connection),
whereas a V.34 (33.6) connection practically never retrains.

Richard.
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Gee, I don't nkow...maybe Papy could do a patch or something :)

Marc.