Looking for Better On-Line Racing.

I have been attemting to race online in GPL and N3. I read here that a 56K connection should be fine with latency's below 400. I have yet to find a connection where the cars don't disappear in front of me (sometimes for 5 seconds at at time in N3 with a ping of 100). As you can imagine, this makes for some dangerous racing. I have taken people out of races accidentily because they disappear, and then reappear with me inside their trunk. I can think of maybe two reasons for the problems. It could either by my ISP, or it could be that I have a USR 56K Winmodem. I read on Allison's web site that Winmodems are to blame for bad online racing connections. A few Questions I have are: Are there people out there having good races with 56K Modems? Will a "Real" Modem help me? Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a better connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to justify the $40+ per month to my wife yet)? My system is: PII 233, 64MB RAM, V3 3000 Video Card My location is Vancover British Columbia, Canada (eh). Thanks in advance, Dean

I use a Motorola 56K, and have had some extremely good racing on both VROC and in N3. There have been a few bad ones, too, but well over half have been high-quality, even with pings at 200 or so. Sounds like it could be the Winmodem, but your ISP could be at fault, too. Maybe too many people using the net at the same time, causing dropped packets? -- Scott Moore Sports Gaming Network http://www.sports-gaming.com Dean Williams <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:RJIO3.18$[email hidden]... > I have been attemting to race online in GPL and N3. I read here that a 56K > connection should be fine with latency's below 400. I have yet to find a > connection where the cars don't disappear in front of me (sometimes for 5 > seconds at at time in N3 with a ping of 100). As you can imagine, this > makes for some dangerous racing. I have taken people out of races > accidentily because they disappear, and then reappear with me inside their > trunk. > > I can think of maybe two reasons for the problems. It could either by my > ISP, or it could be that I have a USR 56K Winmodem. I read on Allison's web > site that Winmodems are to blame for bad online racing connections. > > A few Questions I have are: > > Are there people out there having good races with 56K Modems? > Will a "Real" Modem help me? > Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a better > connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to justify the > $40+ per month to my wife yet)? > > My system is: > > PII 233, 64MB RAM, V3 3000 Video Card > > My location is Vancover British Columbia, Canada (eh). > > Thanks in advance, > > Dean > >

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> I have been attemting to race online in GPL and N3. I read here that a 56K > connection should be fine with latency's below 400. I have yet to find a > connection where the cars don't disappear in front of me (sometimes for 5 > seconds at at time in N3 with a ping of 100). As you can imagine, this > makes for some dangerous racing. I have taken people out of races > accidentily because they disappear, and then reappear with me inside their > trunk. > > I can think of maybe two reasons for the problems. It could either by my > ISP, or it could be that I have a USR 56K Winmodem. I read on Allison's web > site that Winmodems are to blame for bad online racing connections. > > A few Questions I have are: > > Are there people out there having good races with 56K Modems?

Yes. You are missing great racing. > Will a "Real" Modem help me? Yes. Winmodems steal CPU cycles making serial communications less stable. > Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a better > connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to justify the > $40+ per month to my wife yet)? Yes. 1. Get rid of the winmodem. They work but not as well as 'real' modems. 2. Set modem speed to max 33.6k. GPL only needs about 26k for client connection. 56k will only contribute to instability. 3. Turn off error correction and data compression. 4. Get the 'offically not released' 1.2 patch for optimum GPL internet communication. 5. Enjoy the best online racing ever created.

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> My system is: > > PII 233, 64MB RAM, V3 3000 Video Card > > My location is Vancover British Columbia, Canada (eh). > > Thanks in advance, > > Dean

Dean, I've had great success with a Best Data 56K modem (this is a hardware modem, not a Winmodem). Despite what you hear, ping times alone aren't the single biggest determining factor -- you need to make sure you've got your modem's Dial-Up Networking (DUN) properties properly tuned. The best guide I've found yet for doing this can be found here: http://simracing.com/alison/gpl/dun.htm Disregard the first part if you're running Win98, but the sections after that should be EVERYBODY's bible for online racing. Your best bet is to set up a second, optimized dial-up networking (DUN) connection to your ISP for online gaming; use your original one for sufing and such, and use the optimized connection when you want to link up to race. It really helps a lot, so I recommend giving this a shot first and foremost. -- JB Dean Williams wrote in message ...

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>I have been attemting to race online in GPL and N3. I read here that a 56K >connection should be fine with latency's below 400. I have yet to find a >connection where the cars don't disappear in front of me (sometimes for 5 >seconds at at time in N3 with a ping of 100). As you can imagine, this >makes for some dangerous racing. I have taken people out of races >accidentily because they disappear, and then reappear with me inside their >trunk. > >I can think of maybe two reasons for the problems. It could either by my >ISP, or it could be that I have a USR 56K Winmodem. I read on Allison's

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>site that Winmodems are to blame for bad online racing connections. > >A few Questions I have are: > >Are there people out there having good races with 56K Modems? >Will a "Real" Modem help me? >Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a better >connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to justify the >$40+ per month to my wife yet)? > >My system is: > >PII 233, 64MB RAM, V3 3000 Video Card > >My location is Vancover British Columbia, Canada (eh). > >Thanks in advance, > >Dean > >

> Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a > better connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to > justify the $40+ per month to my wife yet)? > Here is how you do it. Tie up the phone line as much as possible. SUrf, race online, do plenty of emailing etc. Make it so she misses calls, has to beg you to free up the line, gets complaints from her friends and family that no-one can reach her. then....;) "A 2nd phone line dear..." you say slyly. That way I won't be getting in the way of your friends trying to call. Of course the ISP costs 19 bucks, and the phone line is another big chunk...I could probably SAVE money by using a cable connection, and that would STILL leave our phone free for chatting. Or I could just go back and jump in the next 500 lap race I see...... bingo! dave(you're welcome) henrie

>Can anyone offer some suggestions that might help me establish a better >connection (other than ADSL or Cable as I haven't been able to justify the >$40+ per month to my wife yet)? I wish I had your problem. My wife doesn't have any say over the money I make after I pay the mortgage and bills, so if I wanted to spend 200$ a month on a faster internet connection than the friggin' 28,800 dialup I have now I wouldn't even ask her opinion. My problem is that I can't even get a 56K connect where I live, I'm too far from the nearest switch. There's no ISDN, no xDSL and no cable modems (though I do have cable TV.) I wish the only impediment to a better connection for me was $$$! My suggestion is to stop letting your wife tell you what to do with your money. :o) ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

At least you have cable TV, where I'm at cable TV isn't a option, its either get satellite or don't watch TV! Your luckier than me!

>At least you have cable TV, where I'm at cable TV isn't a option, its either >get satellite or don't watch TV! Your luckier than me! I'm at the very end of the cable line here, which is a good thing, because if it weren't for cable there would be no TV at all. I don't have a clear shot to the horizon for a satellite! The price of piece and quiet and no neighbors, I guess. daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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>Despite what you hear, ping times alone aren't the single biggest >determining factor -- you need to make sure you've got your modem's Dial-Up >Networking (DUN) properties properly tuned. The best guide I've found yet >for doing this can be found here: >http://simracing.com/alison/gpl/dun.htm >Disregard the first part if you're running Win98, but the sections after >that should be EVERYBODY's bible for online racing. Your best bet is to set >up a second, optimized dial-up networking (DUN) connection to your ISP for >online ***; use your original one for sufing and such, and use the >optimized connection when you want to link up to race. It really helps a >lot, so I recommend giving this a shot first and foremost.

Strange - when I set up a second DUN connection for racing, I couldn't even CONNECT. I double-checked the settings, even created a THIRD connection. Didn't work. My original connection with the standard settings could connect, though.. Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Go Green!!! MSU (At least we beat Univ. of Michigan...) Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>Strange - when I set up a second DUN connection for racing, I couldn't even >CONNECT. I double-checked the settings, even created a THIRD connection. >Didn't work. My original connection with the standard settings could connect, >though Make sure your new connections prompt you for info used in the login process. (at least the first time) They don't automatically take it from other DUN connections, but instead from the registered user of the WIndows Installation. In other words, if your copy of Windows is registered to Eldred P. Whomever, but your login at your ISP is EldredP, the new connections aer going to try and log you in as Eldred P. Whomever unless you manually enter the right info. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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>>Strange - when I set up a second DUN connection for racing, I couldn't even >>CONNECT. I double-checked the settings, even created a THIRD connection. >>Didn't work. My original connection with the standard settings could >connect, >>though >Make sure your new connections prompt you for info used in the login >process. (at least the first time) They don't automatically take it from >other DUN connections, but instead from the registered user of the WIndows >Installation. >In other words, if your copy of Windows is registered to Eldred P. >Whomever, but your login at your ISP is EldredP, the new connections aer >going to try and log you in as Eldred P. Whomever unless you manually enter >the right info.

No, it *did* ask me for login info. I even made sure to enter it in the config setting. It just kept refusing the connection... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Go Green!!! MSU (At least we beat Univ. of Michigan...) Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting? Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.