I'd like to be able to say I have options. Except I don't. Both DSL and Cable. My Mac(s) and my Windows machine. Directly connected to my cable modem or through my router. Speaknow or Rage or Texas. Not just Quake. Urban Terror too or Quake 3 modifications like Open Arena and ... well ... all the other ones. And Quakeworld [played several games on Maraakate's Undergate coop server ... every 5 seconds or so --- spike + lag ... bad enough I was usually automatically dead if I had to walk carefully around lava].
And I'm not talking just Windows. Not even mainly Windows [I'm rarely using Windows, actually]. Not sure if Xbox "hides the lag" somehow in a way something like Urban Terror doesn't, I don't seem to get this on Xbox but those games blow (woohoo! Hide and snipe! Or shoot the zombies repetitively ...).
Is this common? Or am I just exceptionally unlucky?
It isn't the provider, the operating system, the engine, the game or even the router .... and I never had any of this 2 years ago.
[Maybe I am just complaining ... but ... ]
And I'm not talking just Windows. Not even mainly Windows [I'm rarely using Windows, actually]. Not sure if Xbox "hides the lag" somehow in a way something like Urban Terror doesn't, I don't seem to get this on Xbox but those games blow (woohoo! Hide and snipe! Or shoot the zombies repetitively ...).
Is this common? Or am I just exceptionally unlucky?
It isn't the provider, the operating system, the engine, the game or even the router .... and I never had any of this 2 years ago.
[Maybe I am just complaining ... but ... ]
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