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03-01-2008, 03:16 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NY, USA Posts: 676
|  Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
Yeah I tried that, didn't help. It's so random its hard to figure out the cause.
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03-02-2008, 03:23 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,589
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
dialup is perfectly fine for most online gaming, strange ppl think otherwise 
of course...I would say this is about it for 56k...after this year noone seems to want to optimize their code so you'll have massive amounts of data back and forth for no reason
mmo's are ok with 56k...shooters not so much. But it wasn't bad during the days of quake even up to II I believe.
mmos I played with dialup
asheron's call
lineage II
almost all the gpotato ones
silkroad
city of heroes
9 dragons
2 moons
corum
of course the occasional spikes typically mean the death of many a 56k gamer 
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03-02-2008, 04:23 PM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,262
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
my speed is 26.4K tops though, so i doubt i could play anything.
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03-02-2008, 06:13 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 644
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Try some setting changes and possibly a different modem luke, should get in the 40ks, 30ks minimum, I Get 45.2kbps, 44k or 46k sometimes out of the blue.
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03-02-2008, 06:25 PM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,262
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
yeah i was thinking about picking up an external modem after my build is done,
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03-02-2008, 07:10 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 644
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Do you live out in the boondocks aswell? Or do you just choose to use dial up?
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03-02-2008, 10:32 PM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,262
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no i live in northern ontario and only dial up and sateliteare availible (sat is really exspensive and not worth it here) in about a year though i will prob be moving to where there is hig speed internet because my parents are getting devourced.
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03-02-2008, 10:41 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: PA Posts: 205
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
I used to TRY to play Soldier of Fortune on dial up about 6 years ago....the game would end...and five minutes later I would find out that the game had ended. I think my best score was 1-3040405054. Now with my Cable I usually go 40k-9d, or somewhere around there in CS:S pubs. Better in noob games...like CoD4. Needless to say, I love my cable.
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03-03-2008, 03:57 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 644
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
Anyone know how to get ventrilo to work good for dial up?
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03-04-2008, 12:22 AM
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Future ex-member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chehalis, WA Posts: 4,010
| Re: Dial up Gaming, One Big -.-
Back when I thought I could actually game on dial up I played Battleground Europe.
My average connection speed was 26.6kbps and It ran alright, but for some reason I never killed anyone.
O those days p***ed me off so bad.
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