Did you ever use dialup for Quake?

[Baker]

Did you ever use dialup for Quake?

This sounds like a funny question, but there is an ever-increasing pool of players that probably have never been on a 56K modem -- which, as I recall, never did 56K, but that's a story for another day (zzzzzz ).

I started playing on the internet in 1999 and was just out of the reach of early and expensive DSL, and my cable provider didn't offer broadband.

About 4-5 years ago is when the pricing of broadband started to begin to make sense for many people as DSL and cable started competing seriously.

[scar3crow]

14.4 all the way.

800 pings, but more importantly, 0 packetloss. I didnt noticeably encounter packetloss until broadband. I adjusted, and I played literally 9 hours a day for 3 years.

People accused me of spoofing my ping in game because they couldnt believe someone with that high of a ping was beating them. Sadly, I never got invited to join any real clans, only the startup ones that werent serious about playing matches.

[Lerster]

Dialup....

I was on dialup when i first started quaking back in mid-98 i guess it was around the time my pal got sick of me hogging his computer and said get ur own....

So i did... and i was on a terrible isp to a somewhat soso isp.... both where dialup providers.

My first isp gave me pings about 350-500, my second dialup isp which i didn't have for longer then a year or two b/c it costed twice as much as the previous dialup which i ended up returning too... due to it's cheapness....

Gave me, about 200-300 ping.

I used dialup semi recently as well, with freenet providers such as Aol, and Netzero. Both gave me about a 180-300 ping.

Otherwise i've been cable, and most consistently DSL.

[IEEE 802.11]

Yeah, dataloss seemed to begin once players with broadband started playing. You could have a broadband player run by you and you'd literally have lag because of it. Quake has these zones where all objects are present which are members of that zone. You can cross zones and be fine, but soon as a broadband player entered that zone you were dead.

[Baker]

800 pings, but more importantly, 0 packetloss. I didnt noticeably encounter packetloss until broadband.

That cracks me up. I heard a story about an ultra-HPB with 500 ping at IHOC who could actually play at least a half way decent game.

Funny the stuff ppl put up with to play a game of Quake.

Ultra-HPBs that could actually play well --- too funny.

[IEEE 802.11]

That's why Runes are fun to me, because you can compete without requiring broadband.

[Fishdeath]

I'm still on Dial-up, never played with a ping lower than 190, but I can still put up a hell of a fight if I want to

You LPBs should be ASHAMED to be fragged by me :d


avrg ping= 238

[Monster]

Yep I did, was one of the better dial-up players, pinging 180-250. I spiked a ton though, and when I wasn't, I did damn good. Until I got cable, when my true fury was unleashed.

[scar3crow]

The behavior is worse in broadband for me, at least thus far, more spiking and packetloss is horrendous (consistent 800 ping with 0 packetloss is a days adjustment, nothing more).

Baker - If I had a 500 ping back then.... Honestly, I dont think I would have died in most matches at all. Nowadays, heh, well... Sometimes I can kill you, but usually the games behavior being so erratic, combined with my lack of playing over time... yeah a lot has left.

[Monster]

continue to train with me scar3crow. you weren't bad at all when i fought against you, you just had to scrape off some rust.

[Vypus]

whatever reply

i still use dial up and still play quake, for some reason theres a noticable pause between when you actually press the button and your guy moving, this wasn't a problem way back then...

[QuadRaptor]

A long time ago my brother's friend (who was the one that put Quake on our computer) let us use his dialup. We didn't tell our parents until later and eventually we got cable.

I remember how laggy it was. I also remember my mom walking in once and she asked about the game, and I lied about the players on the game, saying "Oh those are called 'bots', they're computer people that say funny things."

[R00k]

my 1st quake modem was a USR Dual Standard 14.4k modem
i got 600 ping multiplayer

then i got a USR 33.6 then 56kbmodem then realized that the government was milking the market and finally got Broad banD!

[Sajt]

I didn't get internet until 2000 with DSL

i still use dial up and still play quake, for some reason theres a noticable pause between when you actually press the button and your guy moving, this wasn't a problem way back then...

You must have started out with QuakeWorld :p

[Yugo2Heck]

Wolverine used to play at IHOC with a nice steady 900 ping. He was on a cable modem, but he had a super-crappy ISP in the Netherlands. On a bad day his ping might be 1600. He never complained and played pretty well.

If you want a feel for what it's like, use the "pq_lag" command in ProQuake to increase your ping. It only lets you go up to 400 (above your real ping) which is more than enough for most people. If you can get everyone on the server to do at least +300 it's pretty hilarious.

I played for 2 years on a 28k modem, 200-300 ping in Quake.