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5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... dave henrie

Your racing with the beta patch ? -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

> 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race > finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the > place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. > where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... > dave henrie The internet is going to be as fast as the slowest connection. Another wards, If your cable modem is connected to an N3 race with 20 drivers and the host uses a 33.6 modem. your going to be receiving data at 33.6. err, something like that. A cable modem connection will be at it's best when connected to another cable modem, or connected to another type of modem that has more bandwidth and speed then a cable modem. Then there's the computer it self, If the host is running a 386 then there will be lots of warping. On the other hand, If you are the host with a cable modem and have a client with a 33.6 connected to you.. The client will be sending and receiving data at 33.6. That's why the 3/84 core.ini is often used in GPL. to help those with the slower connections. Set that core.ini to 2/150 and the 33.6 will be a warping demolition derby. err, something like that. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

>> 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race >> finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the >> place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. >> where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... >> dave henrie Make sure you get the utility for setting your MaxMTU and rcv buffers. EasyMTU is one of them. go to www.winfiles.com and search on easymtu. This will GREATLY improve your connection. Actually you're limited only by the speed of the HOST, I believe. If your host has cable and you have cable, you should be able to swap data at the rate of the slowest cable modem. Just because another racer in your race has a 33.6 modem, doesn't slow EVERYBODY down to 33.6. I read on N3's beta newsserver that if it's optimized right, you should be able to connect just fine with 28.8. Again, MaxMTU and DefRcv(something) play a HUGE part in minimizing packet loss and retransmission. Gunner

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> >> 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race > >> finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the > >> place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. > >> where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... > >> dave henrie > Make sure you get the utility for setting your MaxMTU and rcv buffers. > EasyMTU is one of them. go to www.winfiles.com and search on easymtu. This > will GREATLY improve your connection. > > The internet is going to be as fast as the slowest connection. Another > Actually you're limited only by the speed of the HOST, I believe. If > your host has cable and you have cable, you should be able to swap data at > the rate of the slowest cable modem. Just because another racer in your > race has a 33.6 modem, doesn't slow EVERYBODY down to 33.6. I read on N3's > beta newsserver that if it's optimized right, you should be able to connect > just fine with 28.8. Again, MaxMTU and DefRcv(something) play a HUGE part > in minimizing packet loss and retransmission. > Gunner

That's what I said isn't it? ;-) If the host is connected with a 33.6, That's the best anyone will get. If he's connected with a cable modem, that's the best anyone will get as long as your connection is the same or better. Anything slower then that cable host wont get the full potential of what the cable modem *could* deliver to them. 5 cars ahead/2 behind ..verses.. 20 cars ahead/20 behind (exagerated example) -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

> That's what I said isn't it? ;-) If the host is connected with a >33.6, That's the best anyone will get. If he's connected with a cable Sorry, I misunderstood your statement. Thought you were saying you'd fall the speed of the slowest connection... Gunner (head bowed..)

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:23:32 -0800, "Don Hancock (\"Gunner\")"

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>>> 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race >>> finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the >>> place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. >>> where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... >>> dave henrie > Make sure you get the utility for setting your MaxMTU and rcv buffers. >EasyMTU is one of them. go to www.winfiles.com and search on easymtu. This >will GREATLY improve your connection.

Ive tried this with my cable modem and it made things worse. Download speeds increased greatly but it does not work well for online racing.

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> > 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race > > finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the > > place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. > > where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... > > dave henrie > Your racing with the beta patch ? > -- > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you...

NOT YET, I wanted to try it out clean first. Sounds like I may "need" the beta stuff..hehe dave henrie

Dave try races with pings less than 150 ms. This should reduce your warping. Ex On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 05:42:48 GMT, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote: > 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race >finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the >place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. >where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... >dave henrie

Extractor wrote: > > Dave try races with pings less than 150 ms. This should reduce your > warping. > > Ex > for a while it was tough finding low pings because everybody was running Tally. But now I've found a couple of servers that let my cable modem ping around 62-97 and those have been very very good. also started using the beta 1104 patch. That too seems to have stablized the connections. dave henrie thanks for the info

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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 05:42:48 GMT, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > 5 races, 3 disco's one blown engine. one wreck....Not a single race > >finished...Is N3 always this bad? Cars were warping all over the > >place. My cable modem could only manage pings around 200 to 270. > >where's the faq for setting up a cable modem for online racing... > >dave henrie