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CNCRaymond · #1 July 24th, 2002, 05:13 AM

Forgive me for butting in, but I take it you chose DSL because of the FIXED up and down bandwidth rates? Atrocities that is a good option for you. You can get rid of that Cable modem and go DSL. The more you pay the more bandwidth you can get up to the limit your phone line can handle. You can run the server from your home. There are a lot of great free server programs out there that can help you too.

Of course you will more than likely want to have a fire wall PC or router too if your going to run a Tribes 2 server. The game Posts the IP of each server. Hackers love IP address.

[ July 24, 2002, 04:14: Message edited by: CNCRaymond ]

capnq · #2 July 25th, 2002, 01:35 AM

Whether DSL is an option depends on where you live; it's only available within a certain distance of the provider's central offices.

Atrocities · #3 July 25th, 2002, 03:45 AM

Thanks guys. I'll check it out. I have heard that they inudate you with hidden charges though.

Puke · #4 July 25th, 2002, 04:41 AM

i dont think you actually have to program anything for a tribes server. the game should come with the appropriate software to run a server with. you just need a machine and some bandwidth. you probably dont even need a domain name, as i think there are already Online places where you can register your servers IP address.

Atrocities · #5 July 25th, 2002, 06:00 AM

The game is heavily supported with multiple tools for running a server. I have ran servers before, but that was before AT&T reduced its upload speeds from 256 to 56k, and its download from 1m to 128k. I hate AT&T.

When I tried the Qwest DSL, I had signed up for 256k up and down, but got 26k both ways. It was a huge dissapointment. Factor in that the first month was suppose to be free, and I got billed $300.00 and had to fight them through the State's Attorney Generals Office for a year to get my money back, really soured me on Qwest.

I still have two of their INTEL modems. Hell they were worse than AOL.

Now that was two years ago. I wonder if the service has improved?

Phoenix-D · #6 July 25th, 2002, 06:05 AM

"Now that was two years ago. I wonder if the service has improved?"

No.

Phoenix-D

Captain Kwok · #7 July 25th, 2002, 06:07 AM

Atrocities:

My sister works at the customer service company that used to work with Qwest. She used to tell me all the stories of how Qwest would "slam" their customers and even sign up people without their permission. My friend actually worked for Qwest and told me how people in their sales division would actually be pushed to do this. I believe that Qwest is now being sued by many people over these issues.