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08/12/2001

choose lag, choose 999, choose packetloss.

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MindPhuck Eric Mooney Im drinking stuff donated to quake.ie clan : n8z posts : 1267 site owner choose quake on dial-up! not much point trying to explain, so let me paste you an email i sent to both id software and activision about q3 and rtcw. if you have any idea's what this is about, let me know please. hi there, i'm hoping you could shed a little light on this one if you could. i've tried a huge number of things over the past and still experience the same problem. i have a server running on my local isp's backbone. when a user connecting to it on a different isp, they connect fine, no ping problems or expiencing any lag. should a user connecting to the server, using the same isp as the one the server is on, they experience huge lag, with pings spirialling to 999. (even though one may dos ping 20 to the server normally) its rather unusual. sometimes, when your connect the first time, its fine, but if the map changes, its back to lag and 999 ping. also, if a user has a leased line or uses dual isdn channel, they are fine. it seems to be a low bandwidth issue with the server. the server is an nt4 server running nothing but the q3/wolf server. this appears be only a problem with q3 and now wolf. i have qw and a few others servers running and we don't encounter these problems at all. i would really appreciate if you could help. thanks. eric.

08/12/2001 #1 M1ke Michael Breen posts : 288 yeah eric i had the same problem using slosh or whtever it is with eircom dialup, it would spike to 99 and i wouldnt be able to connect to the server until i lowered by fps, and when my fps were lower it wouldnt spike at all.... wierd.

08/12/2001 #2 anonymous is this the thing where when you connect to server you go 999 straight away and hear a count down, 3, 2, 1, fight but dont actually enter the game???????. If not i haveent seen it. Jedi jedi-work

09/12/2001 #3 MindPhuck Eric Mooney Im drinking stuff donated to quake.ie clan : n8z posts : 1267 site owner It appears that the guys in Barrysworld had similiar problems. Here's a snippet of a log. [bigfoot] yer [bigfoot] there's some weird thing [bigfoot] we had with our dialup [bigfoot] when it changed ip [bigfoot] to 62.* or whatever [bigfoot] and servers were same 62.* [bigfoot] that ppl got lag [bigfoot] on q3 servers - was it a firewall issue ? [bigfoot] no its something to do with q3 [bigfoot] i dunno the technical side of it - yeah i was hopign it was. (my isp wont help me alot) [bigfoot] way i understood it was that Q3 thinks the user is on a LAN connection [bigfoot] so treats their connect as such [bigfoot] deffo remember there being an "issue" with it tho to the point where we changed the ips back. Soo.. its basicly q3 thinking that your on a lan connect when in fact your not and its handling the packets different. Lovely.

09/12/2001 #4 saik mr.nobody posts : 242 this isn't helpful, but i got really bad lag last nite, my ping alternated from 150 to 999, i'm on esat nolimits, where is slosh hosted? could it be this same problem?

16/12/2001 #5 anonymous Slosh is hosted in eircom. Munch

16/12/2001 #6 Havok Neil Morgan I am ur father posts : 81 The same thing as What used to happen if u connected to Vishnu (when it was around) on an eircom dialup ?

17/12/2001 #7 koopa a posts : 88 dont think thats right, q3 doesnt change settings based on whether it thinks you're on lan or not

17/12/2001 #8 koopa a posts : 88 not sure anymore, ignore last comment

24/04/2002 #9 SyxPak John Coleman Student posts : 14 I'm a Quake n00b, but surely if it thinks you're on a LAN it's going to have jacked up the rates, why not try lowering them or seeing what they are? The FPS-related issue is very strange though. This is an old topic and has probably been addressed since PtRel1.31

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