Hawaii/Modem Question

Hi all, I just purchased a new USR Sportster 28.8 (33.6) modem the other day, and when I connect to Hawaii I get a SLOW CONNECTION warning. My latency is listed as .250, which I believe is as slow as you can get and still be able to race. I am using the standard modem string from the modems.cfg (all error correction and compression turned off, connect at 9600) is there a better one out there? Or is this modem just slow? I used to connect with my friends SupraExpress 14.4 and never got the SLOW CONNECTION message. Anyone run into this problem or anything similar? This modem was pretty cheap (~120 after rebate) is it not a good modem? Also, does a slower connection actually affect gameplay? I haven't noticed anything while racing.... Any Help is appreciated, CJ cjjohnson on Hawaii -- Chris Johnson TT ways to***off Yassir Arafat:

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> Hi all, I just purchased a new USR Sportster 28.8 (33.6) modem >the other day, and when I connect to Hawaii I get a SLOW CONNECTION >warning. My latency is listed as .250, which I believe is as slow as >you can get and still be able to race. I am using the standard modem >string from the modems.cfg (all error correction and compression turned >off, connect at 9600) is there a better one out there? Or is this modem >just slow? I used to connect with my friends SupraExpress 14.4 and >never got the SLOW CONNECTION message. Anyone run into this problem or >anything similar? This modem was pretty cheap (~120 after rebate) is it >not a good modem? Also, does a slower connection actually affect >gameplay? I haven't noticed anything while racing.... >Any Help is appreciated, >CJ >cjjohnson on Hawaii >-- >Chris Johnson TT ways to***off Yassir Arafat:

I have a USR 28.8 Vi modem with DSVD and I get latencies of 0.11 to 0.15. I had a USR 14.4 prior to that and got similar performance. I'm pretty sure I'm using AT&F1 for the initialization string. Longer latencies will definitely have an effect. You'll see cars kind of dancing around on the track which makes it a dicey situation to make a pass (or be passed, but I try to avoid that. <g>) Dave "davids" Sparks Late Nite League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

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> Hi all, I just purchased a new USR Sportster 28.8 (33.6) modem >the other day, and when I connect to Hawaii I get a SLOW CONNECTION >warning. My latency is listed as .250, which I believe is as slow as >you can get and still be able to race. I am using the standard modem >string from the modems.cfg (all error correction and compression turned >off, connect at 9600) is there a better one out there? Or is this modem >just slow? I used to connect with my friends SupraExpress 14.4 and >never got the SLOW CONNECTION message. Anyone run into this problem or >anything similar? This modem was pretty cheap (~120 after rebate) is it >not a good modem? Also, does a slower connection actually affect >gameplay? I haven't noticed anything while racing....

CJ - You connection may not be as slow as the initial latency reported; sometimes the latency doesn't stablize for a few seconds, but once the line stabilizes you get a solid low latency connection. You can check this by going to the "chat" screen and typing CTRL-Y, which will display your immediate latency as well as the quality of the connection. If the numbers reported are good for latency (less than about .15) and in high 90's for "quality", you've probably got a solid connection. Note - if you're in a race and notice you're having problems which seem like they might be modem related, you can type CTRL-Y in the driving screen. The result goes both to your chat history and back to our service you'd like me to review a specific race log where you experience a problem. Charlie Heath Papyrus Design Group