> > Q3test update: I played a few rounds (okay, a bunch) tonight for the first time in a couple of weeks, and got my tail handed to me by a bunch of guys with cable modems. Against some other 56K modem users I fared better--around the middle of the scorecharts. I'm still up for a game anytime, if someone wants to coordinate one. My suggestion is that we allow folks with slower connections to choose the server/s; it would be pretty un-fun if we found ourselves jerking and stuttering all around the map with a 500+ ping... :-)
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> Heh heh. Well, you slower folk picking the server is fine for me. Q3's server interface is still kinda funky so give me an IP or whatnot -- half the time the server list doesn't load for whatever reason and I have to click "refresh servers" for 10 times until I actually get the stupid list. But that works for me. I generally tend to get sub-100 pings everywhere...

I had forgotten until tonight how lousy the phone lines are out here... I managed about a minute with a ping of about 100, and then it shot up to 999 and stayed there. The little graph in the lower-right corner looked like a big ol' yellow rectangle.

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