Lol I just realised that Paul does not actually state what sort of connection he is using
And you are right, he could just be flodding himself out I have 10Mb cable so that doesn't effect me :) On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:44:55 +0000, Stephen Moretti (blueyonder) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whisper wrote: > > >A Windows XP SP2 issue? > > > >Just guessing. > > > > > Nah.... I get the same on Windows 2k. I think its a universal problem. > > I was talking to a game server host yesterday; the guy was saying that > they see it all the time. I'm guessing here, but the main list is > sending out so many pings and requests for information to so many > servers that, basically, it floods the users connection and affects the > results that you see. > > I'm not sure that there is much you can do about this problem. Although, > the guy I was talking to yesterday did say that lowering the connection > setting in steam to below that of what he really had did give better > results, so guessing here again, but that sounds like the number of > concurrent requests that are made at one time is affected by the > connection setting that a user has in their steam options. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds

