I use a cable modem in central Illinois. Connection on Sierra is not good
enough to get in races. Ping is usually around 400. Does anyone know of other
options besides Sierra to race online on so I can maybe get better connections?
I am from Chicago's western suburbs, have cable and regularly get pings below
100. I had the same problem when I went from a dial-up to cable connection.
Someone here can help, or maybe do a search on Google, but I seem to remember
that I had to go into the core.ini file and change the "net use modem bandwith"
from 0 to 1 or some such thing.
It seems, as I remember, that without the change, the software would be
"forced" to use the modems bandwith and not the cables.
I'm sure someone who is way ahead of me on the learning curve can tell you.
Hope this helps...
Michael Loos
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Your connection to Sierra is irrelevant. The ping numbers you are seeing are
to the individual servers themselves as Sierra is literally just a matching
service.
I would try the tweaks mentioned earlier, but if you are connecting and
seeing pings, then you are probably setup correctly to race and it will be a
matter of setting up your connection for optimal performance. Check
www.dslreports.com as they have bandwidth speed testing and tweak info for
cable and DSL connections including how to setup your cable info in your
registry and so forth.
Nascar servers are mostly in the US. I'm in Europe. I get pings to US
servers at approx 170-220 ms. Using one of my previous ISPs (cable
connection), pings was significantly higher during afternoons - sometimes as
high as 700. That was because my ISP lacked bandwith to serve all their
customers at once. My pings to US servers using another ISP (ISDN), and my
current connection (10 Mb in both directions) is at 170 - 200 ms. You just
may suffer from your ISP lacing bandwith to serve all their customers at
once.
Jon Andersen
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> Hmm....
> Nascar servers are mostly in the US. I'm in Europe. I get pings to US
> servers at approx 170-220 ms. Using one of my previous ISPs (cable
> connection), pings was significantly higher during afternoons - sometimes as
> high as 700. That was because my ISP lacked bandwith to serve all their
> customers at once. My pings to US servers using another ISP (ISDN), and my
> current connection (10 Mb in both directions) is at 170 - 200 ms. You just
> may suffer from your ISP lacing bandwith to serve all their customers at
> once.
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
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My 10 Mb ISP is getting expensive. They just increased their fee. Now they
are almost as expensive as my previous 768/128 cable connection ;-)
Jon Andersen
You need to get PingPlotter and map your ping rates for a week or so, then
contact your cable company and try to get it fixed.
Those of us with Cox Cable in Northern VA know what you are going through.
-Larry
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> My 10 Mb ISP is getting expensive. They just increased their fee. Now they
> are almost as expensive as my previous 768/128 cable connection ;-)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
DC
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