Question for fellow Demon Internet Users

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wivelrod

Guest
Hi all,

I've been using Demon for some years, but had always found the service a little hokey for online gaming. So I had another ISP I used instead, which seemed stable and gave better pings.

That ISP was (is) Intensive Networks. Now for some reason I cannot connect to them, and while I go through the support channels finding out what’s going on I thought I'd do a little research and reassess the current ISP market.

In doing so I found many of you advocating Demon and being the bee's knees for multiplayer gaming, many citing the ability to turn off IP header compression as being one of the leading factors you love the pointy horned ISP so much :D

So, my question for those of you using Demon, particularly if your ISDN users, what "advanced settings" are you using? The ones you can tweak from the "https://www.password.uk.demon.net" URL.

Up to recently ping time hasn't been that important to me, stability and lack of packet loss was key. I play Asherons Call allot and ping times of 300 ms to 500 ms are quite playable. But now I'm getting more and more into Tribes, and looking forward to Battlefield 1942, and I feel my "twitch" needs refining ;)

Cheers gang!

(oh, and to you Cable/DSL users, ask BT/NTL/BlueYonder why I don't have broadband, not me ok? ;) )
 
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~Lazarus~

Guest
wivelrod,

Remember that your ISP is only half of your problem. Pings can be affected by the state of your line and also the quality of your modem.

Have you tried :

Tweaking your modem (latest drivers etc)
Try some tweak sites like tweak3d.net - you can tweak the games AND your system to improve the gaming.
 
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wivelrod

Guest
Yes, if I play more FPS type games I'll definately be assesing my current ISDN modem, and may even decide to ditch it in favor of a new.

After all it is the standard BT ISDN PCI card. And I understand that might not be the best rated.

Demon provide these tools to tweak the connection, and thus I'm also interested at the best setting to optimise it for online gaming..

Thanks :)

edit: jeeze I can't trype ;)
 
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Embattle

Guest
Best ISDN PCI card is the card from Asus.
 
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kanonfodda

Guest
Aye, running Asus ISDN card(s), get a ping og 60-70, connected through another box, also running two mirc sessions, Roger Wilco and Messenger :D
 
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wivelrod

Guest
Very nice!

You convinced me. Just ordered a sparkly new Asus ISDN TA from OverClockers.co.uk.

I love other people spending my cash for me :p
 

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