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seanyepez · Mar 20, 2001, 01:19 AM

I think a fragging session will bring us all closer together.

The game will be run on a west-coast server (specifically in Northern California) off a cable modem connection. You will need the 1.27x client to play.

I'll update you guys later. Who's interested? I think my connection can take eight dial-up users or four broadband users if you set your data rate low.

Suggest some maps!

If you use an aimbot or any other cheat, I will know and you will be banned forever and ridiculed on the boards.

Good luck. I was thinking that some 8 versus 1 will be fun. Fear my wrath.

"I have been hearing that some punk-bitches are saying that they think they have the skills to go toe-to-toe with Infinity in the Quake arena. Ha-ha-ha. That's some funny **** ."

We'll see on Friday. Happy fragging.

Drop me a line. seanyepez@home.com

I am aiming for 7 o'clock past meridian Pacific time. I will send you all details later.

gorefan68 · Mar 20, 2001, 01:23 AM

Reasons why I will NOT play.

1. its on a cable modem, and cable modems SUCK for games. DSL all the way baby, or evne better, get a dorm room on the T3 like I have.

2. You have a PC.

3. You expect us inferior macs to kill you when you are on a PC?

- Ca$h

seanyepez · Mar 20, 2001, 01:57 AM

The game will be hosted on a 500-megahertz PowerBook. Fair enough?

My cable has a 10ms ping to my gateway, and I ping anywhere between 15-25 to Bay Area servers in California.

If it makes you feel better, I'll use either my Titanium PowerBook or other Pismo.

I'll win either way Ca$h, and your only reason for playing is your fright of humiliation. Results will be kept confidential.

seanyepez · Mar 20, 2001, 02:06 AM

I have two takers so far. One is a usual Mac-toting Quake buddy of mine who has serious skill.

Another one is my uncle. I don't expect him to play on his old Performa 6200, so I'm allowing him to play on his Dell. Yuck. Don't worry, it's a 400-megahertz Pentium II with a GeForce.

I would prefer that everyone who's on broadband to do the command "/rate 8000" in the console before playing. It will allow more people to connect, and faster ping times for everyone.

AlbertWu · Mar 20, 2001, 03:30 AM

Uh... the twenty-fourth is a saturday...

and im off to apple as a symbolic pilgramage

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Speak like Yoda, he will.

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AlbertWu · Mar 20, 2001, 03:36 AM

YOu know... that thing they're introducing... whats it called again..?

OH YAH!

MAC OS X

sheesh

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Speak like Yoda, he will.

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Sting · Mar 20, 2001, 06:00 PM

Email me if it goes. On a DSL in Calgary, Canada, but California servers can usually get me ~100 ping.

Overkill is a great (big) map for 6-8, too big for less. (my all time fav - for now

Also, the ztn levels are v. well done.
www.quake3world.com reviews high quality maps only, but they still tend to be overly positive. Don't we all!

cteselle · Mar 21, 2001, 12:01 AM

i'm game...

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seanyepez · Mar 21, 2001, 01:57 AM

If you're game, drop me a line!

seanyepez@home.com

Also, I recognize that March 24 is a Saturday.

Consider it moved to March 23, a Friday.

Chimpmaster · Mar 23, 2001, 05:39 AM

I dont know why im even bothering posting here, but Cash how can you say cable sux for games??

Got to be kidding me? I used to use a cable connection here which was capped at 512Kps - and I was getting average pings on local servers of well under 50, with 0 packet loss. Thats fast.

I know people who use another service here at 1.5Mps, and the ping like 20. You cant get much better than that.

Im getting optus cable later this year (the 1.5Mps one) and I cant wait. You americans probably take these speeds for granted, but it still impresses me downloading at 100kb/ps + over airport.

DSL is meant to be better as you arent sharing bandwidth with your local area, unlike cable, but in practice you still share limited bandwidth space via the server, and in this country at least, dsl is much more expensive and the hosts have smaller servers generally.

Im sure its all different in the USA though.....

Mar 31, 2001, 04:10 AM

Just wanna say that Chimpmaster cable does suck, cause I have Telstra 256/64 (Australia, melbourne) and I get around 60-100 ping time. Also does telstra cable work with iMacs as I am gonna purchase a iMac 500 dalmation in a couple of weeks?

Laterz
Jeremy

IEEE1394 · Apr 1, 2001, 03:02 AM

My ADSL seriously kicks ass. 7 MBb downstream, 800k up, I get <20 ping on local NZ servers.

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