N3 Server speed

I'm on AOL and having trouble with latency. Can anyone suggest a good online service that has a fast server speed? I want to race with no warping. Thanks Dave

I live in a rual area. Cable, ASDN, ISDN none of this is available to me. What should I do? I'm getting a bad connection. What server is best? I'm using Mindspring. Should I add a second 56K modem? Thanks, Gary

Have you tried upgrading to AOL 5.0. It helps for me. Racer X Veteran Sim Racer Victory Lane- http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1423/

How much does it help cause im getting a latency of between 1.8-2.2 right now. Not exactly a great figure. But my AOL connection is actualy better than my NetZero one (plus that damn scroll bar screws me up). Then again im most likely getting a cable hookup soon so maybe ill just work on my setups some more till then :) Chris

Actually the best advice i can give you is try and find races in your general area. Like im in a rural area in Texas with crappy phone lines (they wont run at over 26400). I hooked up with my friend who lives in San Antonio the other night (about 70 miles away). Both of us are in the same boat but the shorter distance helps ALOT. Chris

Have you tried upgrading to AOL 5.0. It helps for me. Racer X No difference, the bottom line is that AOL sucks for online *** Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"

Actually the best advice i can give you is try and find races in your general area. Like im in a rural area in Texas with crappy phone lines (they wont run at over 26400). I hooked up with my friend who lives in San Antonio the other night (about 70 miles away). Both of us are in the same boat but the shorter distance helps ALOT. Chris, same boat here man, I'm in Austin with aol and N3. How did you connect, using aol, or direct connect? Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"

I was looking around on line and found this. My modem connection while playing N3 is much better. It sounds crazy but it has really helped. Print this out, it will be much easier. Here is what I have found: Firstly, the DUN you use for the Internet is NOT suitable for on-line ***. It most likely would be using Data Compression, Error Correction, Maximum FIFO Buffers and probably going as hard as your poor little modem can peddle, or harder if i believe half of the tales i hear about.... All of the above is VERY bad news for on-line ***. You should make up another DUN for on-line ***, with Data Compression and Error Correction turned OFF. Also, turn down the maximum connect speed of your modem to 24000, 26400 or 28800 at a maximum. The quality of the lines in your area, will dictate the best speed for you. This can be done in the Modem Properties tab of your DUN for the designated Modem. Read the booklet that comes with your modem for the initialization strings you need. NOTE: Some people are under the mistaken belief that a slower connect speed will take longer to get to the host, resulting in higher latencys (pings) etc. This is totally false.!!! The connection speed of your modem, is a false analogy, as the connection speed only refers to how much bandwidth the modem is capable of sending at any given time, NOT how fast it can send it. Hence, the ammount of data that a GPL host requires from a client, will get to the host at exactly the same time, whether the client is using 26400 baud or 56000 baud, and 99.9% of the time, the 26400 baud rate from the client will have a lot less errors and be a lot more stable than the 56000 baud's best effort, unless you are lucky enough to live in a area where optical fibre abounds, all the way from you to the host, which is very unlikely. :) I only ever use a maximum of 26400 on-line with GPL, as the lines in my area, leave a bit to be desired, but with my normal internet dun, i use 33 to 56k baud, and let the error correction fix any problems i encounter, which is fine for surfing and general internet use etc. (error correction is a definite no-no for GPL on-line) To make more than one DUN with different modem initialization strings, you will need to go to the MODEMS in the control panel and ADD another modem. This will not overwrite your present modem settings, but will add another modem to the modems you have listed in the modem list. As you add more modems to the list, Windows will simply add a #2 #3 #4 etc etc to the end of the modem name. That way you can set up as many DUN's as you have modem names, each one with different initialization strings. Once you have your on-line DUNS and modem set up correctly, you will actually find that disco's, error filled connections and high latency's will simply become a bad memory... NOTE: The FIFO buffers should be set no higher than the 2nd mark from the left, unfortunately these are global settings, so if you set them at the 2nd setting from the left, that is where they will remain, regardless of which DUN you are using. I have not noticed any lesser performance in surfing or downloading with the buffers set there anyway, so i just leave them there all the time. Make sure you turn Error Correction off, also turn off the Data Compression and select Hardware Flow Control in you modem's properties tab for the On-Line *** DUN. If you are a paranoid type, as i am, you could also add those commands to the extra settings in the modem initialization string, just in case you don't trust windows to carry out your wishes and let's face it, who trusts windows to do anything right when it comes to *** anyway.. I have included the following line for my US Robotics modem in my On-Line *** DUN.. &F1&K0&M0&U10&N13 &F1 Resets modem to standard, in case windows messed it up. &K0 Disables Data Compression, in case windows forgot. &M0 Disables Error Correction, as per above scenario.. &U10 Sets the floor connect speed to 19200. &N13 Sets the ceiling connect speed to 26400. The above is an example for the US Robotics modem, different modems will vary slightly in the initialization strings, so read your manual for further details to achieve similiar results. Secondly.. Windows in it's infinite wisdom sets up the Port settings on the extra conservative side by default. This needs to be changed manually. To do this: Go to the Control Panel, go to System, go to Device Manager, go to Ports (com & lpt). Select Com1 , go to Port Settings, and adjust the following to read as follows: Bits per second 115200 Data 8 Parity none Stop Bits 1 Flow Control Hardware Go to Advanced and adjust the FIFO Buffers so they are 1 mark from the left side. Do the same for Com Port 2. I know it was long...print it out and try it...it helps!! good luck and if you are on aol....you need to leave and find an ISP that provides a better connection. If you need help with this post back here....good luck and see ya on the track, provided, you dont warp away!