🚀 go-pugleaf

DreadDave wrote:

>>> Hi, just getting back into Q2 after being a dial-up user for
>>> years but now have a 256/64 ADSL connection.  Any server that
>>> I connect to gives me the phone jack.  :(  My rate is still
>>> set to 3000 (as it was for dial-up) and cl_maxfps is 30, but
>>> it didn't help.  Any tips?
>>
>> Set your rate to 15000, that might help.
>>
>
> whooaahh there tiger.. 15000 for a 256/64 ?  that a little overkill
> huh? but he's right, your problem is your RATE is too low.

Hmm, that would surely flood my connection even more, no?
That's why a lower rate is needed for dial-up... anyway,
I tried 15000 (and even 25000) and it didn't help.  :(

> 3000 just too slow even for your 256, that why you getting thoes
> triangle-looking netgraph peaks.  I've seen it before.

Strange.  Back in my old Q2 days it was always a lower rate which
helped prevent lag -- not a higher one... because the rate command
determined how much data went to/from the game.  How does opening
the flood-gates (per se) help?  From my tests (above) it hasn't.