Thanks BT - v2

Kilham · 26th Sep 2001, 11:25 AM

Not sure if anyone can help me with this, as the problem i'm sure is with BT's equipment. For the last few months my connection has become slowly more unstable, I found about 3-4 months ago the only way to stay connected was to force my m0dem (diamond supra 56e)to connect at 28k, this was playable until a couple of months ago, whith pingspikes making the game unplayable. It'll start off at 200-250 which is OK with me

but as soon as I get in a fight it's up to 800-1400 and if I hit anything it's just luck (or spam

). As soon as I die (which is soon ) it drops back again. Seems as if the connection just can't keep up with the game.
Tried different ISP's including Jolt's and 3 different modems, win98 and 2k, and another PC.
I've tried to report it to BT a few times but they say they only guarantee 22kbps on a PSTN line, but last week they sent an engineer. He tried to connect on his BT laptop, expecting to prove it wasn't their fault and managed to transfer 4.5kbytes - in 2 minutes. After changing the line over to a spare he said it'd be passed onto the exchange engineers. Finally today the fault progress report said it's been repaired, but I just tried it and it still sucks.

I haven't been able to play a decent game online for weeks and it's driving me nuts. Sorry for the long complaint but if anyone can help.....please... I want to FRAG!!!

.

(Note:anyone saying get ISDN/DSL will be hit with a stick: I'd be happy to pay whatever it took if I could get a digital conn.)

CrazyCougar · 26th Sep 2001, 12:02 PM

Did they give you a new number to connect to recently?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21884.html

Actually this is the link linked at the bottom of the above article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21798.html

Kilham · 28th Sep 2001, 04:20 AM

Sorry, but that's not the cause, I don't use BT's ISP service and have tried different ones. Looks like my online playing is over for now

. Thanks for trying to help anyway

.

26th Sep 2001, 11:25 AM	#1
Kilham Lost in RL Join Date: Oct. 11th, 2000 Location: Scotland Posts: 849	Thanks BT - v2 Not sure if anyone can help me with this, as the problem i'm sure is with BT's equipment. For the last few months my connection has become slowly more unstable, I found about 3-4 months ago the only way to stay connected was to force my m0dem (diamond supra 56e)to connect at 28k, this was playable until a couple of months ago, whith pingspikes making the game unplayable. It'll start off at 200-250 which is OK with me but as soon as I get in a fight it's up to 800-1400 and if I hit anything it's just luck (or spam ). As soon as I die (which is soon ) it drops back again. Seems as if the connection just can't keep up with the game. Tried different ISP's including Jolt's and 3 different modems, win98 and 2k, and another PC. I've tried to report it to BT a few times but they say they only guarantee 22kbps on a PSTN line, but last week they sent an engineer. He tried to connect on his BT laptop, expecting to prove it wasn't their fault and managed to transfer 4.5kbytes - in 2 minutes. After changing the line over to a spare he said it'd be passed onto the exchange engineers. Finally today the fault progress report said it's been repaired, but I just tried it and it still sucks. I haven't been able to play a decent game online for weeks and it's driving me nuts. Sorry for the long complaint but if anyone can help.....please... I want to FRAG!!! . (Note:anyone saying get ISDN/DSL will be hit with a stick: I'd be happy to pay whatever it took if I could get a digital conn.) __________________ Suicidal n00b shockh0 ex-member of clan [RSU] "If I wanted to create a surveillance society, I would start by creating dossiers on kindergarten children so that the next generation could not comprehend a world without surveillance." - Andre Bacard, author of 'The Computer Privacy Handbook'

26th Sep 2001, 12:02 PM	#2
CrazyCougar CATatonic Join Date: Jan. 5th, 2001 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 1,306	Did they give you a new number to connect to recently? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21884.html Actually this is the link linked at the bottom of the above article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21798.html __________________ [Ci]CrazyCougar\|BuF

28th Sep 2001, 04:20 AM	#3
Kilham Lost in RL Join Date: Oct. 11th, 2000 Location: Scotland Posts: 849	Sorry, but that's not the cause, I don't use BT's ISP service and have tried different ones. Looks like my online playing is over for now . Thanks for trying to help anyway . __________________ Suicidal n00b shockh0 ex-member of clan [RSU] "If I wanted to create a surveillance society, I would start by creating dossiers on kindergarten children so that the next generation could not comprehend a world without surveillance." - Andre Bacard, author of 'The Computer Privacy Handbook'

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