I have been playing with the Battlefield Communicator (http://www.battlecom.com) lately and wanted to share my findings with the rest of the group here....
Walk Walker
walkwalkr@...
Apr 2, 1999 3:50 pm
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I've been racing on VROC for a few months now with the help of this VERY cool little program called PPP-Boost. What it does is let you change the Max MTU, RWIN...
Beelerrj@...
Apr 3, 1999 8:12 am
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http://www.resounding.com/hello.html give rodger wilco a try, it sounds like pretty much the same program. Athough this one supports up to 200 channels. These...
Richard Smit
wetchaser@...
Apr 4, 1999 12:44 am
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Forgot...My ISP is Garden.net and is pretty good. Never have a problem with busy lines, bad connections, or anything else. My log in speed with the 56k is...
Thanks for the help Joel. I will do this and see what it nets. BTW..my latencies were generally below 200 today. Andy ... From: Joel Willstein...
Butch Morris (Andy)
atmorris@...
Apr 5, 1999 2:01 am
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Old subject, I know, but can anyone help me? I have been on VROC all day today trying to figure out why as soon as the practice session ends and the host goes...
Butch Morris (Andy)
atmorris@...
Apr 5, 1999 4:23 am
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These are all things that are worth trying. OTOH, disconnects at the transition from practice to race are often a result of a GPL server who has too many...
Alison Hine
alison@...
Apr 5, 1999 4:44 am
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Ever since I installed a Voodoo2 to go along with my Diamond Stealth 3000 3D I get that dreaded black screen with the hour glass every once in awhile when I go...
Joel Willstein
jaw101@...
Apr 5, 1999 4:53 am
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Tried the core.ini mood....no help, or minor help only. I am running Windows 98 so the DUN thing doesn't apply as I undestand it. I will try 33.6k connect...
Butch Morris (Andy)
atmorris@...
Apr 5, 1999 4:34 pm
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5 April 1999 GPL Spy Boy Released (v1.0.0.90) Features Include ... - Native Win32 VROC Client (including hosting and joining support). - Integrated support for...
Lawrence Holbert
lholbert@...
Apr 5, 1999 11:49 pm
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VROC was malfunctioning for a while tonight. I found and fixed the problem, although I don't yet know how it got screwed up. It doesn't look like it was...
Alison Hine
alison@...
Apr 6, 1999 4:50 am
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Is this applicable only to Win95? I'm running Win98 and have realllly not tweaked at all. Just using the recommended core.ini. I don't have a tremendous ...
Colin Taber
vitalstat@...
Apr 6, 1999 5:11 am
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I'm not sure if PPP Boost works with Win98. I'm using DUN1.3 so I don't see why it wouldn't, but I would check the text file that comes with PPP Boost to make...
Beelerrj@...
Apr 6, 1999 6:46 am
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Thanks for all of your hard work Larry !!! Great program !! GPL racing online wouldn't be the same without it !! Darin Gangi ... eGroup home:...
Darin Gangi
D-Gangi@...
Apr 6, 1999 7:01 am
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The following is from C3 Systems' PPP Boost web site: http://www.demonweb.co.uk/c3sys/ppp.htm PPP-Boost (Win95 only) (NOTE : This tweak is not required for...
mcarver@...
Apr 6, 1999 2:46 pm
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Turn 1 has created an Online Carset Project to help drivers to recognize individual cars. No more 5 green Lotus, 4 blue eagles etc. All images are 4-bit, 7...
Bill Tillman
billtill@...
Apr 6, 1999 8:08 pm
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I seem to be getting booted randomly (after about 3 to 8 minutes) out of a race when I connect via GPL SPYBOY. While Racing or practicing or chatting...
bmoody@...
Apr 7, 1999 1:44 pm
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Alison, As a Brabham driver,I have struggled to come to terms with the "toad",and for the most part I thought that I had some pretty good setups. True,the car...
Joel Willstein
jaw101@...
Apr 7, 1999 1:44 pm
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I have been plagued with the black screen/hour glass that requires booting my system every so often when I go from the track back to the pits. It has become so...
Joel Willstein
jaw101@...
Apr 7, 1999 1:48 pm
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I seem to be getting double posts from this list. Anyone know how to report this? I went to the e-group page but don't see anything for that.... Andy ... ...
Butch Morris (Andy)
atmorris@...
Apr 7, 1999 10:31 pm
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Steve Smith sent me this. I don't think voice communications would work when inside GPL, but it would probably be ok outside of GPL. Exposing your IP address...
Alison Hine
alison@...
Apr 8, 1999 2:09 am
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I have been on VROC for 2 hours as of this writing. What a fiasco! One hour with Spy Boy ...and one hour through Netscape and the old interface page. Makes no...
Butch Morris (Andy)
atmorris@...
Apr 8, 1999 2:12 am
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I have done just a little bit of testing of Thrustmaster's Talk n' Play system (I think the MSRP is $29.95) within GPL. I hope to do some more testing soon....
mcarver@...
Apr 8, 1999 2:21 am
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... The only way I can see Spy Boy affecting online races being hosted by VROC is that it has made it so popular that so many people are waiting to join a race...
mcarver@...
Apr 8, 1999 2:32 am
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... To: jaw101@... <jaw101@...> Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: Black Screen ... which includes a TSR-like serial port...
Joel Willstein
jaw101@...
Apr 8, 1999 4:45 am
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Damn you're one smart cookie Michael! ... 40 or 100's yes that is a possibility. And it is something that we will have investigate further as we move along...
Lawrence Holbert
lholbert@...
Apr 8, 1999 4:47 am
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... GPL "works" with such products but the CPU overhead is such that it's dodgy at the best of times. I don't think exposing your IP address is too big a deal,...
John Wallace
john@...
Apr 8, 1999 11:56 am
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... You're not getting double posts, some folks are CC'ing their posts to both lists, thus you get them twice. Trips ... eGroup home:...
Trips
trips@...
Apr 8, 1999 2:29 pm
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actuall joel, the bump is adjusting the height of the chunk of rubber attached to the frame. This is supposed to give you a last resort before you put all the...