I AM NOT A BOT

[BigTrucK]

Sup all.  New to the TS world but I just wanted to let you guys know that I am not a bot.  I play on the Railz, Vanilla, and Mutant servers as 'Wireless'.  Unfortunately for me I only have a wireless connection here at work and for some reason it lags every 30-45 seconds, without fail, for about 3 seconds, then it's back to normal.

What happens is sometimes I get kicked for 'Modified Client' or 'Speed Hack'.  I am guessing this is because the server receives too little or too many packets at one time, so I must be a bot.

Anyway, had to get that off my chest, just an honest player on a wireless connection.

Great site and set O servers.  See you guys in game!

[TriP^K][L^]

what kind of card do you have? what kind of router?

I play at the library, in cafes, at home...all wireless..never had a problem like that

[BigTrucK]

It's a Belkin card.  Not sure of the exact model number.  I suspect it's a problem with the router, unfortunately I have no access to it

[M^tster]

Yes I too have wireless, sept mine works fine...no 30 sec lag spikes.Its linksys, and has served me well.We know all about the lag then unlag=modified client thing.Makes you speed across the map looking like a speed bot...console will tell you if your botting anyways hehe.Dont worry XE...err wireless...err bigtruck?

[the Crazed]

Ummm.... once when I was lagging pretty badly I was kicked for speedhacking.... while i was observing!  That seemed pretty strange to me.  I don't know if you actually had a speedhack if you would get kicked while observing or not... but my guess is you have to be playing.  So... I wouldn't worrry about it... they're pretty relaxed here anyways; meaning, if you were speedhacking they would tell you to stop... or kick you... or do a temporary ban if worst comes to worst.

Well, nice to have new skilled people on these servers!   

Console... thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[console]

Ummm.... once when I was lagging pretty badly I was kicked for speedhacking.... while i was observing!  That seemed pretty strange to me.

Hi Crazed,

The version of q2admin we're running defaults to some pretty paranoid settings.  When we upgraded to it many of our dial-up players were being kicked for various bogus reaons, just because of their lag characteristics.  (It even kicked WallFly for speedhacking !!!  )

After some experimantation, we've found the following settings:

msec_max 12000
msec_kick_on_bad 0

...seem to reduce/eliminate most of the bogus kicks.  The tourney server (for instance) is probably not tweaked to those settings yet (but probably should be).

Regards,

[BigTrucK]

Thx for the feedback.  Did you make these changes recently?  I played most of yesterday and some today and haven't been kicked yet! 

I went by wireless b/c I dint want my name to be associated with 'speed hacking' or 'modified client' crap.  My real nick is BigTrucK.  Now that I am not being kicked anymore for my wack wireless lag problems I will change name back.

[console]

The Tourney server now has the updated settings.

[BigTrucK]

Nice... I also noticed you tweak the settings... I haven't been kicked since friday!!  Thx.

[QuakeDuke]

The Tourney server now has the updated settings.

Now if you would just quit checking for that dread linux bot i'd be fine.
I just get it going good and I sig 11 out

Oh well, guess that's what
I get for not runnin winders....
Hey, wait - that's a good thing right?

QD

[Art]

Oh well, guess that's what
I get for not runnin winders....
Hey, wait - that's a good thing right?
QD

What, you don't like all the viruses, hack attacks and random lockups ? Where's your sense of adventure ???

Really though, win2kpro is fairly stable so long as you limit your open apps to 15 or so. (that's my experience anyway) I typicaly go 40-60 days between reboots, and only then due to software updates/installs or power glitches, and yes I do run internet explorer/outlook express/office, and all the other terrible microsoft products.

95/98/me = crap ... no experience with xp. NT is also fairly stable.

[QuakeDuke]

Oh well, guess that's what
I get for not runnin winders....
Hey, wait - that's a good thing right?
QD

What, you don't like all the viruses, hack attacks and random lockups ? Where's your sense of adventure ???

Only when It's me handing them out   j/k

Really though, win2kpro is fairly stable so long as you limit your open apps to 15 or so. (that's my experience anyway) I typicaly go 40-60 days between reboots, and only then due to software updates/installs or power glitches, and yes I do run internet explorer/outlook express/office, and all the other terrible microsoft products.
95/98/me = crap ... no experience with xp. NT is also fairly stable.

Actually Art, I maintain a few win2kpro terminals for my daughter's clinic - and ***shudder** actually have one at home. When I worked for TRW (25 years of it - left in '96) we used HP minis , WFW, and NT where I was at. Of all the winders I've used I like w2kpro best - it is the most stable. I have to add xp to the list you have - I've messed with pro, home, dell, compaq and it's as full of holes as the rest. Besides, I WANT MY RAW SOCKETS!

QD

[M^tster]

I run XP myself...and Im alot happier with it than win95 and ME.2000 is ok.But I can have my puter on for a good 2 months sometimes..no problems..after that it wigs a lil, but nothing that a restart wont fix.
 And ill never use IE on my computer again.Firefox is my choice.

[BigTrucK]

Hell ya, firefox owns...

[QuakeDuke]

Hell ya, firefox owns...

err... If I correctly understand the lingo of the NOT newb here ( ))...  don't you mean pwns?  

And, Yes, It does..... whatever that means......

QD