Ive got a good broadband connection to the server. How do I make the best use it?
There are two settings that greatly improve the smoothness of your connection. Default settings in Quake 3 are based slow connections of the old days, when 56k6 modems were standard fare. Nowadays, people commonly use high quality broadband connections, such as cable or ADSL. If you have more than 8 kilobytes per second for down- and upload, you can improve Quake 3 net quality, which helps improve your game, and that of others around you. Try: cl_maxpackets 125 rate 25000 Enable the lagometer (cg_lagometer 1) to see if your connection can take it. If you don’t see huge yellow spikes in the upper graph (which should be blue, mostly) or red spikes in the bottom graph (which should be green), you can safely use those settings. If you do see those, cut back on cl_maxpackets in increments of 10, and rate in increments of 1000, until the spikes disappear. If they are present even at the default settings (cl_maxpackets 30, rate 3000) there’s something else amiss.. first trouble-shoot your con
