From: "Ron Stanions" To: In-Reply-To: <199803041209.HAA15684@camel7.mindspring.com> Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 09:21:22 -0500 Subject: RE: Q2 - Deathmatch Hosting Your problem here is your connection speed. 28.8K is going to bog down when more than two people try to talk through it at the same time. All those servers that have multiple players on them are running on T-1 lines on an internet backbone, and while you're connection to them is 28.8K, you're the /only/ one passing through your connection. Now, when you're acting as a server for others at 28.8K, then every one of them is talking through that single connection /except/ you. Now with three other players, that means each one of them gets one third the bandwidth you experience when you talk to a main server. Not to mention you're probably talking through a provider who may be heavily overburdened as well, meaning they've got their own bottlenecks that just aren't good for pushing high bandwidth through a 28.8 connection. In short, there really isn't a lot you can do about it. You can tweak some things here and there and improve the performance a little, but overall your performance is going to remain substandard. Find another place to put your server machine with more bandwidth if you can, that's all I can think to suggest. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-qoole@qoole.com [mailto:owner-qoole@qoole.com]On Behalf Of > Frank > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 7:10 AM > To: ml@qoole.com > Subject: Q2 - Deathmatch Hosting > > > I know this is a QOOLE ML and I wont do this often, but I need to ask if any > of you can help. I have tried several configs but can seem to host a game > with three or mor players in it with out those players being frozen. By > frozen I mean, their ping times are so great they cant move and every thing > is slowed way down for all except me, the host. I have joined many games > with multiple players on board and did not affect the game, so this is a big > puzzle to me.. As for my PC, it is a Pent 200, 32 megs mem, and a 56k > Modem.. (connect most times at 28.8).. > > Thanks for any advise. Have a Quake of a day all... > > > >