rec.autos.simulators

>   You know what I think?  I think your ISP is limiting your throughput.
> Somehow you've been tagged as a heavy user and they have placed a limit on
> your account.  When the amount of packets starts exceeding the pre-set
> limit...you get throttled back.
>   Can I prove this?  Do I have any documentation?  nope.  just a dirty
> feeling.
> dave henrie


> > Any help is appreciated in this, I just do not understand it

> > I have been dealing with this for 9 months and if you could and I still
am
> > not any closer to figuring this out.

> > I have been having connection problems with N4 since the very beginning.
> In
> > every single N4 race everyone always said I was warping.

> > Yet I am on a cable connection and in N3 I have absolutely ZERO
problems.
> I
> > can connect to a server in N3 and sit there with 100% quality and no
> dropped
> > packets for a full 50% race.

> > However in N4 I am nothing but warp, even on great servers.

> > Tonight I tried to use Jeff's server (frogdog1) and I had nothing but
> > problems.  I could connect for about 30 secs to 2 minutes and then it
> would
> > kick me off.  Yet once again, N3 works fine as do other internet games.

> > Here is what it is doing that is really wierd.  Once the server kicked
me
> > out, my internet in general would not work for about 30 secs to a
minute.
> It
> > is like something was causing my internet connection to search for
> something
> > and it gets stuck until it finally times out.

> > After about 30secs to a minute, my internet would start going again but
as
> > soon as I got on N4 the server the same thing would happen.

> > I stayed off of the server and downloaded something and surfed and my
> > internet had zero problems, but once again as soon as I get on the N4
> server
> > it kills my internet connection and I have to wait for it to start
working
> > again.

> > Ideas and help would be Greatly appreciated

> Do you have any kind of FPS (framerate) problems in N4?

> Other than that... some system specs would probably help :-)

> --
> ed_

> I would agree with you except for the fact that I can sit there and
download
> at 200k/sec for any length of time using WinMX or on a FTP site.

> >   You know what I think?  I think your ISP is limiting your throughput.
> > Somehow you've been tagged as a heavy user and they have placed a limit
on
> > your account.  When the amount of packets starts exceeding the pre-set
> > limit...you get throttled back.
> >   Can I prove this?  Do I have any documentation?  nope.  just a dirty
> > feeling.
> > dave henrie


> > > Any help is appreciated in this, I just do not understand it

> > > I have been dealing with this for 9 months and if you could and I
still
> am
> > > not any closer to figuring this out.

> > > I have been having connection problems with N4 since the very
beginning.
> > In
> > > every single N4 race everyone always said I was warping.

> > > Yet I am on a cable connection and in N3 I have absolutely ZERO
> problems.
> > I
> > > can connect to a server in N3 and sit there with 100% quality and no
> > dropped
> > > packets for a full 50% race.

> > > However in N4 I am nothing but warp, even on great servers.

> > > Tonight I tried to use Jeff's server (frogdog1) and I had nothing but
> > > problems.  I could connect for about 30 secs to 2 minutes and then it
> > would
> > > kick me off.  Yet once again, N3 works fine as do other internet
games.

> > > Here is what it is doing that is really wierd.  Once the server kicked
> me
> > > out, my internet in general would not work for about 30 secs to a
> minute.
> > It
> > > is like something was causing my internet connection to search for
> > something
> > > and it gets stuck until it finally times out.

> > > After about 30secs to a minute, my internet would start going again
but
> as
> > > soon as I got on N4 the server the same thing would happen.

> > > I stayed off of the server and downloaded something and surfed and my
> > > internet had zero problems, but once again as soon as I get on the N4
> > server
> > > it kills my internet connection and I have to wait for it to start
> working
> > > again.

> > > Ideas and help would be Greatly appreciated

>Hey Cliff,

>To test this theory, you should try to run both a download and an upload at
>the same time.  Pulling stuff down from somewhere else would be normal
>traffic.  But if the ISP sees you sending a steady stream out, they may
>think you are running a web-site or something and visitors are pulling stuff
>down from your site.  Running a web-site is normally a violation of the
>typical home-users usage agreement.  So they throttle you back.  Same would
>be true for N4 where they start seeing a lot of up and down traffic.  The
>biggest problem with this theory is that N3 (or any of your other on-line
>games) don't trigger the same thing even though they should appear the same.