Texun
Platinum Member
- Oct 21, 2001
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This is my first and last post to you. People come here and trade tech stories and ask questions. When they do they don't normally bash each other for offering different opinions. Sure, some don't read the full post and others may may skip over it and miss the message, but lashing out like a 3 year old and using language like you have when you don't like the response isn't the way to get help around here. I wouldn't respond to your message if you asked how to swap a keyboard. Fire away if it makes you feel better. I'm done.
Any mod want to give this kid a vacation while he cools off?
Any mod want to give this kid a vacation while he cools off?
VirtualLarry
No Lifer
- Aug 25, 2001
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You mean the Sportster, of course. Both those and the Couriers, had a Ti chipset, both were pretty solid. I have the "stealth black" USR Courier v.Everything external model myself, one of the best dang modems ever made. (They still want $300 for it MSRP, USR/3Com is nuts. I purchased mine for $30 new, as the 28.8 model, and .. err.. "found" some flashes for it.
)Really, they were about the same modem, other than a different external casing, and the Courier had extra most-useless features for the average person like dial-back and syncronous mode and stuff. Stuff mainframes would use. (My HS's VAX used one, actually.)
However, like all serial-port modems, they aren't all that great for gaming, due to the inherent latency of the connection.
If someone is serious about low-latency gaming, then what you need is a Compaq/Microcom parallel-port modem. Yes, they make them. Yes, I've personally used one, during beta-testing of a 3D MMORPG. Yes, they actually DO shave nearly 50ms off of your ping times. I was kind of amazed. I have no idea if you can find them any more, the one I used was a 33.6, actually. But as far as latency went, it was the best. It had seperate hardware for transmit and recieve modulation too, just like the USR Couriers did. I don't own mine any more, I sold it a long time ago. (It had a standard serial-port too.)
VirtualLarry
No Lifer
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Well, I wasn't able to dig up any product links or pictures of it, sorry, but here's an EOL support document from HP, mentioning that the parallel-port drivers are not supported under W2K, only the standard serial-port ones, in PnP mode.
driver disk, 1.00
driver disk, 1.00
Diamond modems have always given me the best connection rates (even compared to USR modems). Diamond modems have better than average connection rates with noisy lines and had the uncanny ability to connect at higher transfer rates. If you have a fairly fast PC, hardware modems are not that much better. After I had faster than 1ghz PC's, the best modems I've tried are mostly software-based modems.
And those Diamond Supra modems Tyrant222 was referring to in his link, I had one of those before and I gave it to my neighbor. His PCI modem before was able to connect at 26k or so (yes, that modem is supposed to be 56k). Now, with the Supra he was able to connect, on average, 50k (and it stays there too).
And those Diamond Supra modems Tyrant222 was referring to in his link, I had one of those before and I gave it to my neighbor. His PCI modem before was able to connect at 26k or so (yes, that modem is supposed to be 56k). Now, with the Supra he was able to connect, on average, 50k (and it stays there too).
Well, after our match, I must say that I do respect him as a member of AT and that he can game like no other 56ker that I've ever seen.
Edit: And I did apologize to him, and also wanted to publicly apologize. Can't speak for everyone else but I can speak for myself in saying that I regret how things came about in this thread.
Edit: And I did apologize to him, and also wanted to publicly apologize. Can't speak for everyone else but I can speak for myself in saying that I regret how things came about in this thread.
Elcs
Diamond Member
- Apr 27, 2002
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HEAR HEAR!!! Someone with sense. Gaming on a 56k modem is perfectly fine. I played FPSes on a 56k for around 2 years and I was still good. When i got broadband in, i was completely useless and havent played much since. Im so far into the 'adjust aim for lag compensation' that im not as good with single player fpses anymore.
Anyway, Id personally try a fresh install with as few components as possible. If we say for the, moment that the ISP and Modem are fine, its possible there are other problems or conflicts. Spyware/Adware perhaps?
What's with this? He asked for a good modem, why can't some people ever stop bragging about their T1 whatever connection and give a straight answer? There are people who can't get cable/dsl you know. Anyway who wants to pay like $70 a month for internet. Probably the same people who get divorced because their wife won't let them get an fx55, 4gb ram, 6800 ultra SLI system.
I work for a dialup ISP. And although most games should play fine on dialup, some just don't... and CS:S might be one of them. But one way to know is if you're having problems with any other games? if not, then it's the game. If so, it may be your service provider, or your service provider and your modem. You do have a decent modem, so it may be your provider. Are you connecting at v92? If so, try disabling v44 with AT+DS44=0. If that doesn't help, try doing v90... sometimes the older standards are more robust. If neither of those work, i would try another dialup service and see if you experience the same thing.
Other options as mentioned are to try another ISP, or, if you can, call up the ISP and see what equipment they are using. Back when I was a serious dialup user, I seem to remember something about getting my ISP (a smaller local one) recommending getting modem hardware that was from the same company that made their hardware ISP side (in that case it was USR). Although, that was at least 4-5 years ago, so I'm sure that things have changed somewhat since then.
And for the guys telling him to get broadband, give it up. Satellite is useless for gaming thanks to the latency (and it's an all around ripoff even when taking transfer rate into account). And in a fairly large amount of the country, satellite is the only option for broadband which is actually within an average consumers price range (e.g. no T1). It's going to be a great day indeed when the long range wireless networks become mainstream, allowing people even 30 miles from any decent sized town to get broadband. Until that day comes, a good many people are stuck on dialup....
And for the guys telling him to get broadband, give it up. Satellite is useless for gaming thanks to the latency (and it's an all around ripoff even when taking transfer rate into account). And in a fairly large amount of the country, satellite is the only option for broadband which is actually within an average consumers price range (e.g. no T1). It's going to be a great day indeed when the long range wireless networks become mainstream, allowing people even 30 miles from any decent sized town to get broadband. Until that day comes, a good many people are stuck on dialup....
wow... i came in here cuz i have a similar interest as the OP, getting the best out of a dial up connection. The usual connection is 48 or 49.2 I also have a USR Performance Pro and used a Lucent Agere winmodem. I game too when im home on the weekends away from the T-3 line on campus... and out of the previous 61 posts... ONLY like 5 are relevant to his original question!?!??!?! Sorry, but i have to agree that there are many ignorant butts that know he isn't looking for a change from dialup to something high speed $15-20 a month more but still forces an unwanted alternative. Give me a heads up if you come down to the best modem of the batch.
any good old hardware modem would do.
just disable compression and any of those other features if you're playing online games.
They usually have their own algorithm & enabling modem compression would just slow things down.
just disable compression and any of those other features if you're playing online games.
They usually have their own algorithm & enabling modem compression would just slow things down.
The best gaming modem I ever used was the Actiontek 56k "Call Waiting Modem", which was also one of the first really good, hardware based PCI modems. It was even better than all the 3Com/USRobotics I tried. The only problem is that it's no longer produced and I'm not sure how difficult it may be to find in the secondary market. Also, I'm not sure how well it will perform under WinXP. This was back in the Win98SE days.
Well, whaddayaknow. There's one for sale "new in the box" on eBay for $9.95.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...0&item=6729738383&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...0&item=6729738383&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V
Hello, I'm also on dialup still because broadband or cable is still not available where I live (but it should be soon). I got a 4-year long experience of using modems, and went from internal to external and back. I did have the Performance Pro just like you did, but I didn't find it to be a POS b/c I don't game online. The best modem I have ever had so far is this:
US Robotics 56K external faxmodem
Granted I don't have that exact model (mine reads as 5630B) but believe it or not, this thing is better than the modern Courier in some instances (not the old Courier prior to about 2001, but those may be hard to find). 5630B or 5686E as far as I know are not only fully HW modems, but they also have old fashion analog interconnect with the telephone line wich helps stability quite a bit (modern Courier and competing external and internal modems have digital interconnect via a SiLabs or other chipset). Simply put, no good modems are made nowadays since the times of modems are almost over. That 5686E is maybe the last decent offering on the market. Don't get the USB version, it's a crappy soft modem. Only the Com ported one is a completely HW modem.
US Robotics 56K external faxmodem
Granted I don't have that exact model (mine reads as 5630B) but believe it or not, this thing is better than the modern Courier in some instances (not the old Courier prior to about 2001, but those may be hard to find). 5630B or 5686E as far as I know are not only fully HW modems, but they also have old fashion analog interconnect with the telephone line wich helps stability quite a bit (modern Courier and competing external and internal modems have digital interconnect via a SiLabs or other chipset). Simply put, no good modems are made nowadays since the times of modems are almost over. That 5686E is maybe the last decent offering on the market. Don't get the USB version, it's a crappy soft modem. Only the Com ported one is a completely HW modem.
i recommend the intel win modem, when i used to use netzero i get pings just as good as my cable friends on CS
some hardware modem is good, some are terrible.
some hardware modem is good, some are terrible.
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