🚀 go-pugleaf

Tremble ye! for upon this sandbank of Apophis Steve <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
> EvilBill wrote:
>
>> It was OK with my USB modem with cl_maxfps 60 and rate 15000-25000
>> (but then, my ADSL was 512k down/256 up.)
>
> Are you the same EvilBill shown here -> http://tinyurl.com/35pwm ?
> At that URL, you say "using a USB ADSL device is Bad News" but just
> above you said it's OK... LOL!  :)  You're going mad!  :)
>

That was 3 1/2 years before I actually got ADSL. <g> Things have changed
in the meantime. The original ADSL devices that BT released when they
first started rolling out ADSL in 2000, had 200ms of lag built in. I
don't think that's the case any more.

> Anyway, it seems my USB ADSL connection *is* the cause of my Q2 lag,
> because http://tinyurl.com/324kq states "ADSL, by rights, should be
> connected to an ethernet socket" and to "return the USB variant and
> ask for a *proper* ethernet ADSL connection".  So, I guess I'll look
> into doing that to restore my Q2 gaming experience.  :)
>
> (As for my original post on this thread, http://tinyurl.com/2cbcz
> seems to agree with me -- that my dial-up connection was better than
> ADSL!).

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