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I am based in the UK and get disconnected from as many as 33% of the
VROC races that I enter. This is very frustrating especially since it
always seems to happen just before the start and so I can't get back in.
I have core.ini and have followed all the advice suggested by Alison and
others. What might be causing this and is there anything that can be
done about it?
Cheers,
Paul

Some of the guys in our league have had good luck reducing their modem speed
to 28.8. This has resulted in guys that always got disconnected being able
to stay on for the whole race. I've pasted a mail on our foum from Doug
Gordon an how it helped, and what to do:

My connections have been MUCH improved in the last couple of weeks since I
limited my modem connection to 28.8K instead of the V.90 or X2 "56K"
connections. I think that this connection is much more stable, with fewer
packet retries that can cause delays and discos. Just because you don't
actually lose your ISP connection doesn't mean that you aren't experiencing
errors and retries between your modem and ISP.

Even though there is an option somewhere in the dial-up networking setup
dialogs that seems to have something to do with connect speed, the only real
way to limit it is to add a modem initialization string in the advanced
setup option box for your modem. Unless you have a really complete manual
for your modem, you will probably have to get this information from your
modem mfr tech support. For me, U.S. Robotics quickly answered my e-mail and
informed me that the string was something like "ATS32=96" which sets
internal modem register S32 to a value of 96. This setting is different from
one mfr to another and often from model to model. Anyway, you should look
into it if you have a 56K modem and are experiencing occasional disconnects.

It's can be that you have a bad ISP
OR that there is a bottleneck somewhere
in the route from you to the host. The latter
has been happening to me for the last 2 weeks
and therefore I was unable to compete online,
which is baaaaaad, baaaaad.... :o)
I traced the route to the host and saw there
were some problems with the link from Europe
to USA, and to be sure, I tried surfing the web in
Europe - voila I was again on 3.0k/sec, but when I
tried loading some web page from USA (or refresh
VROC for that matter) the damn thing was slow as
hell :o(

Tadej Krevh
http://members.xoom.com/LotusRacing/

Hi Paul,
I am also in the UK, I have the same problem.... 30-50% of race's I get
booted!
Worst one was when I was winning an 11 lapper at Monza.... last lap, last
corner behind me, finish line in sight.... yup, you guessed it...... booted
out!  I felt like dying..... only him upstairs knows what a real race driver
must feel like when say they run out of fuel on the last lap or a tyre (tire
(US)) gives out!
Still, I will put up with all these boots, the pure fun of GPL on-line
compensates for it.  Things can only get better as the internet improves
speed/bandwidth.
Dave Hawnt (UK)
Southampton
ICQ  #8649390

Hey guys if you don't mind can you explain how the UK ISP's work. I'm in the
states and would like to know  about the problems over there as I have heard
allot of problems like this.

Thanks

Hey guys,

I'm just about ready to have a go at online and I was checking out pings
and packet loss rates for some addresses of pals in Europe. Didn't look
too promising.

Do you get the same sort of problems connecting to UK hosts ?

Andy

Hi Dave,

Same thing happened to me, kind of. In the first race of the IGPS league
at Mexico City I got pole, fastest lap and was leading by 35 seconds
when my phone line dropped on the 19th of the 20 laps...

But I made up for it, winning round 2 by three-and-a-half-minutes :-)

Cheers!
Graeme Nash

http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk
ICQ# 11257824

1998 Xoom GP2 League Champion