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I like to hang out at Avantiville, which has branched out to three T1 servers and renamed to theVille since they run more than just the avanti map now. The guy who started it tweaks his maps a little to suit the regular crowd, but its all on the server side, so no long download. The servers have ...

Been having the same problem lately Kenny. If you have your setup going through a router (not software or slow hub) and can't improve speeds there, it is probably the ISP. Someone on another forum here just explained with cable one of your neighbors can screw up your speeds by setting up a server ...

Ahhhh HAAA!!! That's it! Its gotta be it.

Thanks for explaining that DaveM, it makes perfect sense. I am in Herndon Virginia which is like a wannabe silicon valley of the east and my cable connection speeds dropped like a rock recently. Cox/Road Runner is literally down the street. I would bet any ...

I don't know what is causing your problem, but a while back I started having a number of different problems with Half Life on my old slow machine that I couldn't diagnose. I ended up just saving my saved Single Player games. Backing up my altered .cfg files and uninstalling and reinstalling the ...

I'm no expert, but it sounds like you have some connection problems completely outside of HalfLife. I don't know if your router setup is causing your trouble or your ISP connection itself is to blame. There are better diagnosticians than me that read this site, so post some specifics and maybe they ...

CoolJ

Just in case cash is short, you can go with a joystick without Force Feedback and get the smooth control you need. I got a Logitech Wingman Extreme 3D with a throttle and 8 buttons, USB or gameport for like $30.00. Force Feedback makes you feel the plane fighting you in turbulence or whatever ...

I am in Herndon, Virginia and use Cox/Road Runner cable modem service. Up til now, I have been pretty happy with it. At the time I signed up you had to sign a year or two contract to get DSL, plus I have no phone line on that floor of the house. (I know the wiring is easy to do, it's the drilling a ...

I am facing a similar decision with my cable service, with the added problem of the cable connection cutting out regularly without warning only to reestablish itself moments later. I guess what I am wondering is what monthly dollar figure people think the break point is for being too much rent? I ...

Hey Kid,

I may be biased and I don't want to get into some HL/Quake III/UT flame war with anybody, but I like HL based modifications the best so far that I've seen. I recently got Quake III and while the mods for it have stunning graphics, I don't like the gameplay as much. Too spastic. But then ...

That was less than helpful to the guy Yard.

Ajax, the reason you took 20 minutes to connect was CS was downloading a map you didn't have on your system. FYI the downloads this way, even with a broadband connection take way too long. Go to fileplanet or someplace and get them there instead, before ...

I looked for SG folks on MadTown a couple of times last night but didn't see anybody. What time were you on EST? I was going to be on around 6:00 EST tonight, if anyone is going to be around.

I also play to have fun. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I should say I don't suck. Its actually hard to say ...

CajunTech

Were you at the same IP as you posted before? I kept looking last night and not finding it. What time were you on? I'm on east coast, so maybe I missed you.

FingerDemon

This is excellent. I wish I'd seen these posts yesterday. But tonight, [SG]FingerDemon will be making himself available for your fragging pleasure :p

Many thanks CajunTech for providing a server. I have been interested in trying to run one myself, but my extra machine is just way too slow to run ...

Okay, now for the uninformed opinion :)

I don't know a great deal about routers but shared your pain on having to figure some things out quickly. You may want to do as YeOlde suggests to get maximum capability. But if you don't do that and don't go wireless, you might want to look at the SMC ...

Amen to that housemuzic!

I love TFC! I got into CS pretty good for a while, but then discovered Avantiville. Its a TFC server that runs mostly Avanti (one of my favorite maps) on a t1 line and they post the stats of any player that plays on it during a given week. They keep running totals and stats ...

Phantom-Vortex-

I found your statement, about the human eye only being able to perceive 30fps, interesting. It seemed to me to ring true compared to other things I'd heard, but false when I think of the science and my own personal observations.
A little digging turned up a really nasty fight on an ...

Yowza!

This is the best reason I've heard yet for buying Q3. I only have HL now and with TFC and CS being my favorite games, I didn't see the point of buying Q3. I got the free demo, but didn't think the gameplay as good as my faves. But those screen shots look sweet! Hmmm... how much spending ...

What's with the Buy Menu... Oh man LOL That sounds so much like me when I was a NooB.

I remember one really fast game where the terrorists killed all the cts really quickly except me because they couldn't find me. As sometimes happens they found me in respawn still standing still. But I wasn't away ...

I used to be a segment producer for a television program(I just love saying that, even though it was years ago and I'm just a lowly programmer now) and I remember that video was 30 frames a second. Also, when you set your monitor refresh to around 60-65 you can see flicker if you look just off to ...

Johnny-

I don't know a great deal about Networking, but I had similar kind of problem with my router and also when I used Zone Alarm while running HalfLife. I posted a question a few down this list about setting up in DMZ to solve getting my full list. But with Zone Alarm, depending on the settings ...

Others may disagree with me on this, but I think your best value is looking for HalfLife Game of the Year Edition. CompUSA around here had it on sale for ten bucks recently (with a rebate I think). I bought this 2 years ago (or so)and it has all you need to download and run TFC, CS, DoD, Action HL ...

Actually, I used ZoneAlarm prior to getting the router and I think I just had to allow HL.exe to act as server and it worked OK. I will also try adding the port number to the IP. Thanks for the info.

FingerDemon

Thanks for that link, that gave me enough to try something out and it worked. I can now get server listings without locking up my router with multiple pings. However, I had to put my PCs ip routing address in there, doesn't that leave my whole pc outside the firewall protection of the NAT router ...

No, actually I have an SMC Barricade 4 port router with NAT. It has a nice web interface for DMZ, but I have no idea what I need to make it work.

I posted a question about this before, but I think a poor choice of words made everybody think I was looking for someone to DO this for me. But I just want to figure out how to control the multiple pings sent out by Half Life server listing. And maybe learn a little about setting up a CS or TFC ...

Judging from some of the messages on here, I think you'll hear some people say "No". But I have it and it makes online gaming MUCH smoother and for most purposes it is everything I was looking for. But it is a party-line type of thing, so the more people in your area with it, the slower it gets ...

Y'know I read somewhere that HalfLife only allows you to join an online game from multiple computers in LAN if all computers have different HalfLife CDkey numbers.

When you start the game in LAN Game create, do you see it pop up in the other machine's LAN game list? That's my first sign that it has ...

I'm a major newbie to Networking. Was as proud as a new papa when I got my SMC Barricade sharing the cable modem access with my wife's PC and mine. But I have had some trouble with the multiple pings sent out by HalfLife and have not yet figured out how to set up a server in DMZ or any other way ...