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Tremble ye! for upon this sandbank of Apophis Steve <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
> DreadDave wrote:
>
>> Ahh I understand your confusion.  RATE controlls speed from server to
>> your client game.  MAXFPS controlls speed from game to server. Will
>> your machine do more than 30fps? if so you might up it a bit too.
>> Your problem is, the server is recieving more info than it's sending.
>> This is just my first hunch. A good place to start. There could of
>> course be other factors involved. I'd check my MTU and RWIN too.
>> Win2K, XP do a good job of adjusting these on the fly. If you use
>> Win98,ME then they could need tweaking.
>
> I have Win2K Pro (SP4) installed, and I've tried all sorts of combos
> of RATE and CL_MAXFPS to no avail.  :(  I guess it comes down to the
> USB issue I read about, which basically said to use an Ethernet ADSL
> connection instead; but that requires purchase of an Ethernet card
> and new ADSL modem -- so no dice.  :)

It was OK with my USB modem with cl_maxfps 60 and rate 15000-25000 (but
then, my ADSL was 512k down/256 up.)

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