Modem Tweaking

[Guest]

Hey guys. I live in a little town in Connecticut. I've been told by my cable and phone company they will never upgrade their lines so suscribers can have cable modem/dsl. Sucks huh? So here I am, a gamer when I have the time and have to play on a freaking 56k modem. But, I was able to ping 120-130 with my cheap 56k modem. At the time, I was running windows 98 and did some kinds of tweaking to the modem to get it to that low of a ping. I formated and run windows 2000 now and cant get my ping that low anymore. Does anyone have any tweakign tips or reasons why I can't get my ping so low anymore. (fyi. I ping about 150-160 at best now);
Thanks!

 

[andoh]

Try here. This may help, although I don't know much about Win 2000 http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/modem/

That's to bad about no broadband connection. Time to move!
Andoh


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[Guest]

You may want to consider satellite if you are really determiner, throughput is a reassy insane figure

 

[Guest]

But satellite is much worse than a 56k modem for gaming... best ping time is upwards of 500ms and probably nearer to 700ms. Two-way is worse than one-way of course, since the signal has to travel twice as far into space and back.

 

[Guest]

Really? wow that's awfully high.. where'd you read that or is it from experience? I'm not debating, I want to know more.



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[Guest]

been there..dont that. Im still waitin on broadband in my area..however i watched em install fiber optic cable less that a mile away so i dont have much longer to go..hehe. In the mean time ive used isdn...which uses ur existing phone lines..only makes em digital. I mostly game too and ping round 43 to mplayer. check with ur local phone company for availibility.

Life is faster than 56k!