weird shit happening to my ping , really weird.

[Nexus]

Greetings all gibers and fraggers,

Of late when i've been attempting to play Quake 2 or Action Quake 2 or
RA2
my ping cycles from 60-999 over a period of 5-10 second and the goes random
and them back to the same pattern (60ping on a 56k modem i like) but the
packet loss
must be huge , i have a permanent phone socket in the top corner , can watch
the game
but useless trying to join , takes half a minute to get up a corridor,
This is the most anoying thing to troubleshoot , removed and reinstalled
TCP/IP dail up
adaptor , modem driver , and 3.20 full_cft patch.
Get this , Q3 i get constant 130-150 ping to my favourite servers, other
network games are fine.
any ideas , got me compleatly knobbled.

help very much appreciated
Nexus

[OTSER]

Nexus <ne...@hotmail.com> wrote

> Of late when i've been attempting to play Quake 2 or Action Quake 2 or
> RA2
> my ping cycles from 60-999 over a period of 5-10 second and the goes
random
> and them back to the same pattern (60ping on a 56k modem i like) but the
> packet loss
> must be huge , i have a permanent phone socket in the top corner ,

Have you tried setting "cl_maxfps 30 ; rate 3200" in the console?
It usually helps in stopping the phone jack (for Q2 only).

Regards, Otser.

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