> In my experience this is totally wrong. Now remember, this is my
> experience :-). My Quakers /LOVE/ K56Flex. No, it doesn't care about
> asymmetrical speeds. Works like a champ. Quake ping times in the 100 -
> 120 ms range. Smooth as glass on our local server. Now I can see how
> retrains might be an issue, but phone lines are good enough around here
> that retrains aren't an issue.
I probably should have included a little disclaimer when I wrote that..:)
>From what I have read and heard from users, the issue would seem to be
split both ways. I've heard conflicting stories on the issue of Quake and
whatnot liking or not liking asymmetrical connects speeds. I admittedly
don't have any personal experience with running Quake over a 56K modem
link, (it has always been ISDN or Ethernet).
Unfortunately, I don't think this is Adrian Mardlin's problem anyhow, as I
just got a message from him saying it affects all users, not just K56Flex.
>
> 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.
> >
>
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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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