Should i even try NR2002 online?

I have a 56k modem and live in the middle of nowhere so i have no high speed options. Will racing NR2002 online be worthwhile or will i have too much lag and latency.

> I have a 56k modem and live in the middle of nowhere so i have no highspeed > options. Will racing NR2002 online be worthwhile or will i have too much > lag and latency. A couple of guys in our league are on 56k, and they haven't had any complaints thus far, after 10 or so races. I'd say give it a shot, but it will depend on the host server you connect to as well.

It depends on your ISP. My normal service was showing ping rates at anywhere from 250 to 550 while in a race. Needless to say, when I saw my pings that high I got out of the race ASAP before I caused any problems for any of the other drivers. I subscribed to Earthlink and now my pings are 120 to 150. The main problem with my normal service was where it connected to the UUNET pipeline. I live in southwest Washington State, and race with an online league in the Seattle area. With my old ISP, I would connect to the internet, and it's router system would send my signal down to Sacramento to connect to the pipeline. Then it would have to travel back up past me to get to the Seattle race server. Earthlink goes direct to Seattle race server from my sign on point in southwest Washington. LOT faster! Jim Tester "Patrick Shumar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:x_Dg8.10475$[email hidden]... > I have a 56k modem and live in the middle of nowhere so i have no highspeed > options. Will racing NR2002 online be worthwhile or will i have too much > lag and latency. > > >

Quality is more important that the ping. If you get 97-100 quality then even a ping of 300-400 should be fine. Even people on cable with low pings can have ad warp. "Jim Tester" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a6036g$i8a$[email hidden]... > It depends on your ISP. My normal service was showing ping rates at > anywhere from 250 to 550 while in a race. Needless to say, when I saw my > pings that high I got out of the race ASAP before I caused any problemsfor > any of the other drivers. > > I subscribed to Earthlink and now my pings are 120 to 150. The mainproblem > with my normal service was where it connected to the UUNET pipeline. Ilive > in southwest Washington State, and race with an online league in theSeattle

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> area. With my old ISP, I would connect to the internet, and it's router > system would send my signal down to Sacramento to connect to the pipeline. > Then it would have to travel back up past me to get to the Seattle race > server. > > Earthlink goes direct to Seattle race server from my sign on point in > southwest Washington. LOT faster! > > Jim Tester > > "Patrick Shumar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:x_Dg8.10475$[email hidden]... > > I have a 56k modem and live in the middle of nowhere so i have no high > speed > > options. Will racing NR2002 online be worthwhile or will i have too

much > > lag and latency. > > > > > > > >

Yep...and the quality of my signal went up substantially too. Jim "Schooner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0kMg8.25281$[email hidden]... > Quality is more important that the ping. If you get 97-100 quality then > even a ping of 300-400 should be fine. > Even people on cable with low pings can have ad warp.