The PM-3 with K56FLex is the single best thing that's happened to my
Quake playing customer base -- besides ISDN of course. A 56k/64k ISDN
channel rocks for Quake (no further improvement with 112/128k). 30-40k
and low latency is all Quake needs.
Jon
PS -- And it blows the doors off of X2, which doesn't help Quake play at
all (latencies are still real high with X2).
On 1/7/98 2:09 PM jrichard@livingston.com proclaimed --
>
>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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