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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:08:44 -0400, Darmok
<cooncatspam@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:04:42 GMT, TrOll <Sawdust5555@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Well, after 8 years of Quake2, I'm finally going to step up to UT.
>>Quake is dieing off and I just feel like it's time to move on. I
>>logged onto a couple of UT deathmatch servers and all I can get is
>>downloads that don't complete? On Quake2, if you don't have the map,
>>it will automatically download from the server. I haven't been able
>>to complete one on UT yet and was wondering if anyone here could tell
>>me why? I refresh the server list, select a server to play on then
>>double click and uaually a download will start but they never finish
>>and I get disconnected from the server? Oh, I'm on analog dialup and
>>was wondering if that had any thing to do with it. I'd like to know
>>where I can download a bunch of the UT maps and skins too. Any help
>>on these, guys?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>TrOll
>
>While I haven't played Quake 2 (or 1 for that matter) in a while, I
>still do play Quake III Arena, and find its fast action just what I
>need occasionally.
>
>I have UT GOTY, UT 2003 and UT 2004, though only the first and last
>are currently loaded on my machine (2003 seemed redundant). I
>primarily play Deathmatches, and have yet to try Onslaught (fear of
>the unknown .. and getting fragged as soon as the game starts).
>
>I've found that FilePlanet (www.fileplanet.com ) has about all the
>downloads you will want for any game. You will have to navigate
>through various screens to finally get to the UT section of your
>choice, but once you do, you will find lots of stuff to download. They
>have free servers to download on, and sometimes there is a wait, but
>if you download at the right time of day, it is very minimal. The
>bigger concern is that, as you are on dial-up, you will find about any
>online gaming experience extremely unsatisfying and frustrating.
>Downloading maps, mods and other stuff can be a challenge as well on
>dialup. Yeah, broadband is still a bit pricey, but its coming down,
>and you should really look into it. Last stats I saw were that over
>50% of US households now have broadband.
>
>Good luck ..
Yeah, that sounds good but where I live there is NO broadband other
than ISDN at $140 a month for dual 64k lines. Been there, done that
and it wasn't worth it. Average pings on ISDN for me were in the
120s. There are a few servers on Quake2 that I can ping 180 or so on
with dialup.
As far as being frustrated, I've been on dialup for most of my
internet experience (10 years). When Champions League was still
operating, I was ranked 800 or so among Quake2 players about 3 years
ago. So, dialup is a handicap but it's not terminal. I don't do well
in wide open maps but inside types work really well for me.
The file Planet thingie sounds good too but they are always busy and I
don't want to spend money just to download maps and stuff. I just
thought someone might have a URL that wasn't a pay deal that I could
ocnnect to.
Right now I'm setup to do a dual analog (aka "Shotgun") dialup and can
pull down about 10 to 12kbps on a good day so if I can find a site to
get the maps from it won't take as long as it would from a server I
was trying to play on.
Google search didn't help much. Bunch of links with cross links that
were a dead end.
Oh well, maybe someone will have a site to point me to.
Thanks,
TrOll
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