How do players get such low ping times?

[old.panita]

I have started playing Couter Strick this week, what a game!
I see most players have ping times of around 60-80. Can someone tell me how to get these low times. I'm using Freeserve's Offpeak and weekend suftime connect and I always get a ping of about 208. I live in London and connect with a 56k modem.

 

[1tchy trigger]

They're most likely using a cable or ADSL connection to the net...ask your telephone supplier about what interent services they can provide and maybe one day you too could have a sub-100 ping...

 

[Guest]

If you don't want to get cable / ASDL or if neither are availabe in your area then you would probably get a better ping using Barrysworld's own dial up. Details of which are available here http://www.barrysworld.com/newbie/joining.asp

 

[shabazz]

I always find that greasing up the phoneline and modem (vaseline is the best) makes everything a bit quicker. Pouring some fat into the phone socket really speeds things up no doubt (it helps the digital / anolouge connection ratio triple in quickness, due to the electron per inch of fat ratio). I can actually get 40-50 pings on my 33.6 modem

Try it, cos its works a treat

 

[Ono]

Hey Shabazz!!

I thought I was the only one that knew that secret!?

I find that polyunsaturated oils (Flora for instance) work best because they have more conductivity.

I like to marinade my modem-Phone line for about 1 week before I use it.

 

[Guest]

Try it, cos its works a treat

Sound advice! but don't forget to ensure your modem cable isn't looped or twisted. Data has to slow down to get around the corners.

 

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[Ono]

Lo Matey

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[Ch3tan]

or you could try

http://www.lagless.com and http://www.planetmaniac.co.uk

 

[old.panita]

Oil trick didn't work

Thanks for the advice on the modem tweaks. I tried the oil trick in the phone socket but without much success. I used extra virgin olive oil (I had cheaper polyunsaturated but I thought, what the hell!) but my connection speeds have a dropped substantially as a result. I used to connect at 46Kb/sec now I'm lucky to get above 10Kb/sec, is this normal? Ping speeds are about the same. I noticed that voice quality had also degraded badly and I have to listen very carefully to what the caller is saying. I also tryed a knob of butter but no change.

I didn't put Vaseline on the cables because I didn’t have any and I can't imagine it would make any real difference. Also, how did you marinate your modem? With chicken grease or vegetable oil?

Thanks, RP

 

[Wij]

Southern puffs !

Up north all our RJ45s get a good splodge of lard on them and they fuckin love it !!!!!

 

[*Kornholio*]

Well at least there was one helpful post on this thread