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In article <33AC91...@erols.com>, adeu...@erols.com says...
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>Hi, I just started playing net quake, after nearly a year solo.
>I downloaded Qspy and QuakeWorld.
>The question I have is how can, in the Qspy list, I know which of the
>places runs via quakeworld; 

At the bottom of the QSpy screen you'll see some buttons.  A couple of them are 
labeled "id master" and "best.com".  Push one of these buttons and any servers 
you see listed will be QW servers.  You may have to choose "update this source" 
from the QSpy menu before you see any servers appear.

>also, often I sit there for 10 minutes while
>all sorts of files download then I find out I can't even play at that
>site. What's that all about?

Since you have played solo for so long, you prob know the id levels are named 
such as e1m1, e2m3, dm1, dm2 ect...  Look at the game that is being played 
while in QSpy and if it doesn't say something like e1m2, dm2, ect... then you 
have to download an addon patch to play.  If you see you are downloading skins, 
that is normal and shouldn't keep you from playing.

>Also, are there any other programs I should be running to improve
>performance of my system. I gotta pentium pro 200.

Perhaps fastvid which increases your framerates, but you probably know about 
this one.

>Finally, can someone tell me just how QW makes it all so much better.

The main point of QW is that there is this thing called "pushlatency".  This 
helps reduce the affects of lag and makes Quake playable over the net for modem 
users.  Also, since most people who play on QW are lagged it makes for fairer 
games.  There is also misc. stuff such as dynamic skins downoading, ect..

For more info:

Check out  http://www.planetquake.com/  and look for the "newbie guide"

Also goto http://qwcentral.stomped.com/