Sharpe

1 hour ago, Being said:

I use express, I checked every server in Australia and the Sydney 2 server works the best for me. from 26 hops down to 18 and from 260ish ping down to 230ish. Im thinking I may have to keep it on permanently as it appears to improve speeds on Youtube and possibly all websites.

Cool!

4 minutes ago, Being said:

Damn, that makes so much difference for me, using my vpn knocked 8 hops and 30+ms off, and gameplay feels much more stable. I'd never considered that using a vpn would do anything but slow it down even more.

Nice call Sharpe.

Really? That's awesome! Wonder if it's routing it via Hawaii instead of London? That's a big drop!

Which vpn? So that Ausigirl can try it.

2 hours ago, AusiGirl said:

yea i,m trying,but why did it jump from 260 to 305? makes no sense..

Dunno, it is probably taking a longer route to get to the server. That's where the vpn might be able to shorten it. I'm curious what happens when you run a tracert on this ip "162.248.93.160". This was the west cost server ip. 

 

Interestingly I tried pinging an Aussie server and was getting around 291ms. I then connected a vpn via London and I was getting 271ms, so it seems it is possible to knock some off.

Like I said in game, it would seem if you could get a route through Hawaii, you might knock quite a bit off. The vpn "Private internet access" has servers in Honolulu, I wonder if you connected via them if it would route you Sydney > Honolulu > Cali > New York. I would assume this might knock some ms off, but you can only test it and see. The connection isn't guaranteed to be good either. 

You can also just try Express or Nord vpn and connect to a bunch of different Sydney servers, and see if it knocks some off. If you could even have roughly the same route you posted, but without the extra Spain hop, it might knock some off.  Some of these offer 30 day money back, so can always try, and get a refund if it doesn't work out. 

As I said in game, if you try it, best to test with cmd "ping 162.248.95.178" for each different vpn server if you try it, and compare with your current connection.

1 minute ago, AusiGirl said:

tried it keeps kicking me out

You tried a vpn? It kicks you out of the game?

Wonder if this could be one of those times a vpn could get you a faster/more direct route? Might be worth trying?

It's going Queensland > Sydney > Perth > London > Spain > Virginia > New York?

This one? https://stats.xtremeidiots.com/4/server_players

It lets you into other servers, but not XI?

Did you try any of the regedit stuff on google? Not sure that it would make a difference if you can get into other servers though

Do you have access to a vpn? Maybe try that? (If you get one just to try, try a gaming one, seems Expressvpn might be a good option. Might get a blackfriday deal as well).

On 11/20/2022 at 8:10 PM, JoeCamel said:

Thanks for all the suggestions.  The issue was resolved by 1) Opening the game in Milti-Player and going to MP Options and verifying the game key.  2) Using the console (~ tild) and then using the connect command with the IP and port of an XI server to connect to an XI game directly instead of using my HLSW game manager.  Once the game connected I was able to continue accessing XI servers from my game manager without encountering the dreaded Waiting for Key Authorization.

UPDATE - I lied...game worked for a few hours and crashed and of course, back to waiting for key auth again.  I tried all that I did last time but no go.  I also tried all the XI suggestions and Google suggestions.  I guess I'm not supposed to play anymore

Update, update - I can get on and play on other non XI servers without Keycode Auth message... Hmmm...

Has it been letting you on yet?

Good luck! 

8 hours ago, Mekketom said:

my graphic card crashed again.  and i cant get it going again. it has been baked two times before. and this time it died for good. (RIP).

and with the prices going sky high here.. i cant afford to by, or build me a new pc at this time.   

so my killing spree is over for a while. 

if anyone have and old GF gtx780 card (old i know) laying around for a really cheap price. send me a pm or something.  

and with that...  kill u later..  

1. Which games do you currently play?

2. What is you max budget?

3. Do you have any friends in the UK? (Might be relevant).

4. I take it your card was the 780 gtx? Was it the 3gb or 6gb version?

5. What are you current computer specs?

Welcome!

First time I think I've ever seen the freezetag server in the number 1 spot?

Welcome! 

" I had 21 straight kills in one Cod 4 freeze tag game and 28 straight kills in another"

Not sure if you mean round here, but it also needs to be in a single round, as Ruthless's post alludes to.

12 hours ago, Gam3rGurL said:

Thanks everyone, it was a very scary thing that happened. Was pretty shaken up. Im off for the week from.work so I can heal up. Lol i did try to go in on Monday but I only made it 3 hours and I couldn't do anymore. 

Our neighbour was even kind enough to invite us to thier family's Thanksgiving dinner. And she said if we weren't feeling it they would bring us food. We are lucky to have such wonderful people surrounding us.

Best to rest up! If you overdo it, I think you can delay recovery from the concussion, if memory serves. 

On 10/2/2022 at 10:47 AM, Tron said:

This is NOT a run of the mill bear market.

You can think of every single global risk asset’s risk as being priced off the US long bond (sometimes referred to as the “risk free rate”). Due to QE, the long bond was wrongly priced. Now it is normalizing.

Every single global risk asset (equities, real estate, whatever) should have a risk premium on top of the US long bond. Due to QE this risk premium became effectively zero, or close to zero, over the last few years.

Due to the suspension of QE, every single global risk asset is now being repriced against a normalizing US bond yield and normalizing risk premium. This, in effect, means that the discount rate for each and every global risk asset is rising by between 2% and 10%.

The effect of raising the discount rate for a risk asset from low single digits to mid- to high-single digits/low double digits will cut the value of every single global risk asset (beyond short-term credit) by 20% to 50%, or more.

Should inflation remain sticky, this downward repricing will not be reversed, unlike after the dot com bubble and GFC of ‘08.

We are at the beginning of a likely permanent, once-in-a-generation, downward repricing of every single global risk asset after a likely permanent, once-in-a-generation, upward repricing of the discount rate for all risk assets.

Despite the year-to-date decline in global risk asset prices, many investors still haven't really grasped that 1) the repricing still has a long way to go and 2) there will be no rebound at the other end until we have some sort of Plaza Accord 2.0 / new global monetary system. The petrodollar is dead. Globalization is dead.

Does it have one last major rally in it though? When will the fed pivot? Is it too late? Going to be interesting to see lol. 

Nice! What did you go with for hard drive and monitor?

You are basically a member of the band at this point haha.

1 hour ago, Remmy said:

@Sharpe im with you on this one 144hz or 240hz is the way to cool to be honest! i wont go back to anything else!!! 

Yep, when I got mine it knocked something like 20ms off my reaction time test. If I remember correctly 60hz>144hz knocks around 8ms off, the rest was presumably lower input lag.

1 hour ago, Tron said:

Bwahahahaha You couldn’t even make this shit up.

 

The Bank of England is about to show the world what it looks like to run QE while also raising interest rates.

It should now be painfully obvious that this situation is well and truly fucked.

Oh dear. Lol. Might put Gordon Brown to shame.
 

12 hours ago, WldPenguin said:

While a huge favorite of mine, unfortunately, mp_rescue in any version does not work on the current mod.  The other map, mp_citi_hotel, will need to be tested.

Ok thanks. I'm thought we play citi hotel years ago, but it could have been a different mod. 

Hey, any chance mp_rescue and mp_citi_hotel could be added to next weeks rotation?