Re: Playing

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From: EvilBill
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:48

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christopher.secord@gmail.com <christopher.secord@gmail.com> typed as if
devouring a plate of spoo:
> Toot wrote:
>> Just wondering how do you set-up Quake 3 to play over the net.
>
> I use a program called The All Seeing Eye to find games.  Do a google
> search to locate it.  It's worth the download.
>
> There are several settings inside Quake that you can tweak to make
> network play faster. All of these settings are changed in the console,
> which you access using the tilda key.
>
> /rate  - the default setting is something like 2000, which is
> acceptable for dialup but way too slow for broadband play.  Set rate
> to around 25000.
>

I tend to use up to 4000 for dialup depending on the quality of the 
connection (3000 or so for a 44-48k connection, 4000 for a 52-53k one). For 
my DSL I use 15000.

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