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I'm in Chicago and use AIS for my ISP and have no problems. I've had to
switch from two other ISP's in the area due to problems but I think I've
found a good one. You can see their web page at http://www.ais.net

Slaughter

Richard Chen <r.chenNO@SPAMusa.net> wrote in article
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> Freedle wrote:
> > 
> > I'm in Chicago, and I just switched from ziplink to IBM for my ISP. My
net
> > surfing speed appears to be the same, but when I now try to play
Quakeworld
> > (via qspy) over the internet it has become so slow as to be a waste of
> > time. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'm using DUN with the
same
> > settings as the previous ISP, and I can't imagine IBM is that much
slower
> > (especially since I'm not noticing that much of a difference in normal
web
> > surfing). Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
> > in advance.
> 
> Quake needs a continuous uninterrupted flow of data to play good,
> whereas web/net surfing can have short interruptions without the user
> noticing anything. There is probably some sort of problem with the
> Chicago pop as IBM overall doesn't seem to have a problem (especially
> the backup#).
> 
> Curious... Quakeworld is made so that the speed of the connection has
> nearly no effect, so how can it be unplayable? If it was regular Quake
> than thats a different story, but I can even play Quakeworld relatively
> good on AOL! Have you tried the new version of QuakeWorld (2.0)?
> -- 
> -Richard
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