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[OscarWilde]

well you're using AOL, maybe AOL has some things in the background that effects latency in games. You should find out if its specific to AOL, that area, or the server side.

Plus, I wonder if internet cache has any effect on this stuff. I don't know how the internet caching works, other then it should only be caching websites and ftp sites(i think), but maybe AOl thinks your game is asking for internet cache or whatever. Its sorta like when the game starts up it gets the server fresh, and then once the game starts, AOL first goes to its cache server, and seeing as nothing is there that is related to what your game needs, then relays to the quake 3 server. Just a very uneducated guess on my part.
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[Riso]

He's using AOL?

Ok, that explains everything.

Go and get a real ISP.
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[OscarWilde]

[OscarWilde]

well it seems we weren't totally of the mark, sorta:

http://www.planetquake.com/deathmatch101/q3/guide.asp?page=q3dm3.htm

a quote from that page:

[OscarWilde]

http://members.aol.com/rjdriver/quakefaq.htm
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[OscarWilde]

http://www.gamespy3d.com/using/gspyfaq.shtml

[Madan]

It's not AOL.

It's XP. The same board you linked to has a tech forum and tons of XP ppl are reporting difficulties connecting through XP + DSL.

Here's one:

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetquake/topic.asp?fid=1490&tid=795602

Apparently, there's a setting *somewhere* that can make my problems go away.

Finding it, with this new menu-hidden UI is another story.

:angry:
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[Madan]

My pings for NWN are under 100.

I just asked a friend about his 2k/AOL DSL connection and he's getting Arena pings of 150.

So something's wrong with my end.
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[Jeremy Reimer]

How is it an XP problem, if people without AOL don't have the problem?

That makes it an AOL problem. AOL has to adapt to XP, not the other way around. I mean, who is the Evil Emperor Master of the Universe anyway? It sure as hell ain't Stevie Case...
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[Jeremy Reimer]

Dude, I went to that forum, and there's like one guy complaining about Q3 and XP. How is that "lots of people"? He probably had a bad NIC card in that box.
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[Magus]

Smam.
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[Riso]

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[Madan]

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