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I vaguely recall that there was a "shotgun" set of modems you could pair up and get 128k over two 56k connections. I had just the one, but it felt so, so good t
by partisan 10y ago
I vaguely recall that there was a "shotgun" set of modems you could pair up and get 128k over two 56k connections. I had just the one, but it felt so, so good to get sub-200 ping in Action Quake 2 and CS.
- camperman 10y agoI remember a trick of connecting at a standard speed and then running a certain AT command that reduced the latency considerably - from 250ms down to 180 or so. Can't remember what it was but it made a very big difference to Quakeworld. The client prediction made it very playable on a sub-200 ping.
- toast0 10y agoPossibly turning off compression or error correction; both of those would be toggled with an AT command and add latency.
- camperman 10y agoI think you're right - AT%C0 once you're connected didn't drop the line, it just reduced the communications overhead between the modems. Good days :)