Re: (PM) Quake Problems with PM3

Josh Richards (jrichard@livingston.com)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:09:35 -0800 (PST)

Are these K56Flex users? Quake and similar games seem to like symmetrical
not asymmetrical bandwith which is what K56Flex and X2 provide (i.e. 56K
to the user, but only 33.6k back to the ISP). Also, the 56K protocols are
usually more prone to "start" and "stops" during transmission. This would
also explain why ISDN connections work flawlessy, since the bandwidth is
always consistent in both directions.

Try having them disable K56Flex on their modems but still dialing into the
PM3 and see if things show an improvement.

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Adrian Mardlin wrote:

> We are an ISP in the UK, and we run with both a PM2 (using USR
> Courier modems) and a couple of PM3's as well as an Ascend Max
> (ugh!).
>
> Anyway, we have a lot of users who like to play Quake, and most of
> them find that they have to call the PM2 at 28,800 in order to be
> able to play well. The PM3 gives faster ping times, but is slower,
> and they get occasional pauses. However, it is absolutely flawless
> via ISDN on the PM3.
>
> Any ideas? This problem is consistent, and we have absolutely no
> modem users where the reverse is true. And yes, the PM3 is quicker
> for just about everything else...
>
> Regards,
>
> Adrian Mardlin (From home)
> http://www.nildram.net
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Josh Richards - <jrichard@livingston.com>
Beta Engineer
Lucent Technologies (Remote Access Business Unit)
(previously Livingston Enterprises, Inc.)

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