N2003: Tips for better internet racing connects?

Wondering if there are any settings that greatly effect the connection. I have a 512K/512K cable setup and I hosted two 56K modem users. I ran with just us on the track (Texas) and they had (avg) 450ms pings at 99% quality. One guy was blipping in and out all over the place (warping) and the other wasn't too bad, but not as solid as I remember N3 being. I disabled NAV on all machines along with ICQ, etc., but wonder wht I can do to reduce the amount of data N2K3 passed to possibly help.. Thank you for any help! G Patricks

From what I've seen, if you've got even ONE person connected that has poor latency (speed isn't the issue, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a modem user) then it ruins the whole thing for everyone no matter how good their connection. Within reason, bandwidth isn't the issue. It's the Latency and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. Larry "Icer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Wondering if there are any settings that greatly effect the > connection. I have a 512K/512K cable setup and I hosted two 56K modem > users. I ran with just us on the track (Texas) and they had (avg) > 450ms pings at 99% quality. One guy was blipping in and out all over > the place (warping) and the other wasn't too bad, but not as solid as > I remember N3 being. I disabled NAV on all machines along with ICQ, > etc., but wonder wht I can do to reduce the amount of data N2K3 passed > to possibly help.. > > Thank you for any help! > G Patricks

Icer <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> Wondering if there are any settings that greatly effect the > connection. I have a 512K/512K cable setup and I hosted two 56K modem > users. I ran with just us on the track (Texas) and they had (avg) > 450ms pings at 99% quality. One guy was blipping in and out all over > the place (warping) and the other wasn't too bad, but not as solid as > I remember N3 being. I disabled NAV on all machines along with ICQ, > etc., but wonder wht I can do to reduce the amount of data N2K3 passed > to possibly help.. > > Thank you for any help! > G Patricks

The fact that they have good quality leads me to believe that reducing the amount of data transferred would not help. Obviously, getting rid of the analog modem will help with latency a great deal, but may not be possible for you to do so. Have you tried doing a tracert from the modems to the server, and vice versa. Perhaps there is an efdup router in there somewhere... If there is you might be able to convince someone to fix it. I seem to remember back in my analog days that you could fool around with the Windows registry to tweak modem connections. Perhaps looking at some gaming sites might give you some leads here. Google on something like counterstrike (or quake or diablo or... (hint: popular games) + modem + tweaks and see what comes up. Good luck, Gerald