Well i have recently went to my dads place to visit him for a month or so...well, he lives in the middle of nowhere and doesnt getting any decent speed internets...im currently running ~netzero highspeed 3G~ or some shit like that...well it "increases" the speed of the net but i CAN NOT for the life of me play a game of starcraft without superlag or lagging out...and i know for a fact that regular dialup runs better...idk what the fuck...anyone have any ideas so i can play some sc?

gettodaroflchoppa

104 Posts

June 24 2009 01:01 GMT

maybe his.. comp sucks? Try single player, if it lags then yea..

edit: just wishful thinking, as its hard to believe any comp cannot run sc perfectly

Husky

United States3362 Posts

June 24 2009 01:07 GMT

Probably need to open the ports on his modem. google it, there is tons of things on the internet about it.

T.O.P.

Hong Kong4685 Posts

June 24 2009 01:12 GMT

In my experience, dial up works ok when you play starcraft. It shouldn't be netzero's fault. You should try to ping yourself though. (speedtest.net?)

Since you're using dial up, there's no router to open ports with. I'm not sure how dial up works. Maybe there's settings in the 56k modem?

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

June 24 2009 01:13 GMT

First things first:
http://www.speedtest.net/

LuckyFool

United States9015 Posts

June 24 2009 01:18 GMT

Back in the day I used to play on bnet on dial up. As long as I stayed in games with 4 or fewer people it was totally lag free! :D

StalinRusH

United States734 Posts

June 24 2009 01:28 GMT

StalinRusH

United States734 Posts

June 24 2009 01:32 GMT

behold the overpowering SPEED

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

June 24 2009 01:35 GMT

There should be a closer server than 750 mi.

StalinRusH

United States734 Posts

June 24 2009 01:38 GMT

#10

On June 24 2009 10:35 Pokebunny wrote:
There should be a closer server than 750 mi.

its only about 20 miles from me

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

June 24 2009 01:42 GMT

#11

263ms is actually really good latency for 3G wireless. That's probably best case scenario and your in game performance isn't ever going to be better.

StalinRusH

United States734 Posts

June 24 2009 01:46 GMT

#12

its not wireless ^_^ and its not the "3g" commercials you see on tv ;p this is some OLD shit

T.O.P.

Hong Kong4685 Posts

June 24 2009 03:56 GMT

#13

This isn't 3g wireless. Netzero is advertising dial up as "highspeed 3g" which is completely stupid because dial up is not 3g. They're just tricking people who have no idea what 3g is.

HeavOnEarth

United States7087 Posts

June 24 2009 03:58 GMT

#14

lol that's cool.
mine is

on wireles dsl

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

June 24 2009 04:18 GMT

#15

lolsup

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

June 24 2009 04:57 GMT

#16

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

June 24 2009 05:02 GMT

#17

Damn does everyone on TL.net use dial-up or something?

Latham

9588 Posts

June 24 2009 05:10 GMT

#18

This is the morning, when everyone is sleeping and/or working. In the afternoons like 8 P.M. my speeds drops down to yours.

tec27

United States3702 Posts

June 24 2009 05:19 GMT

#19

This problem likely has to do with how they 'speed up' dialup. To do that, they take everything you would receive and compress it before sending it down to you. This adds latency, but improves download speeds for stuff like webpages and images. They probably don't filter the packets though, so they're compressing SC's packets as well, thus resulting in the added latency.