Fed Up With Getting Discoed!

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 -- [email hidden]

On Fri, 26 May 2000 14:25:52 +0100 Steve Garey <[email hidden]> wrote: % 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. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. [email hidden] http://www.teleport.com/~mcarver =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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 <[email hidden]> wrote:

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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.

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. -- Richard Bellavance Enter-Net Inc. Phone: (450) 652-7189 #16 Systems Administrator/ (514) 990-1683 #16 Analyst-Programmer Fax: (450) 652-6973

Gee, I don't nkow...maybe Papy could do a patch or something :) Marc. "Steve Garey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:EZuX4.4541$[email hidden]...

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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 > > -- > [email hidden] > >