Counter-Strike anyone?

[Loki Ahmrah]

Due to being bored senseless, I was wondering if anyone would want to join me for a good ol' game of Counter-Strike. Due to problems on my comp, I can only play on servers that have 24/7 games running on Dust or Assault. But hopefully that will be resolved in a few days time.

Anyone up for it?

[Darth Viscera]

I would host an RTCW game, but 100% of my uplink is being used.

[Loki Ahmrah]

But I don't have RTCW! :cry

Besides, your uplink is going to a good cause, me! >D

[Sith Ahnk]

My brother stole mine

[Loki Ahmrah]

Bah! Useless the lot of you! :p

[Sith Ahnk]

I'll play you a solitaire

[Loki Ahmrah]

Bugger off! :verymad

[Sith Ahnk]

I aim to please

[Zasz Grimm]

Don't have Counterstrike, Have Teamfortress though.

Also I play Starcraft, and Starcraft: Broodwar

and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction.

Just give me a ring on AIM if you are interested.

[Loki Ahmrah]

Don't have any of those! :cry


Why don't you have Counter-Strike!!!!! :mad


:headbash

[Sith Ahnk]

StarCraft and Brood War are a must

[Zasz Grimm]

Because I don't!

DIE!!!!

:shootin

[Morgan Evanar]

Counter Strike is very free if you have Half-Life, Zasz. Loki, I can send you any map that is giving you problems.

Visc... you have @home. Your upload is crap for hosting a game. You need a least a T1 to really make a decent server.

Anyway, if anyone wants to play CS, drop me an IP via AIM: iWhoSaysNi

As for Counter-Strike...

http://bmat.clanhappy.com/cs_office2.gif

[Sith Ahnk]

I have decent upload and I'm on @home

[Morgan Evanar]

12~14k/ sec is not a decent upload. 25k is acceptable. Anything less is simply meh.

A good upload is 40k. Anything above that is simply nicer =].

And for game servers, please, don't host your own unless you've got a least a T1 behind you.

[Darth Viscera]

I'm on Comcast now. Same thing, though. Around 128Kb/sec up. (13KB)

Now, if only I lived in Utah and had $1000/month to burn, I could get DSDN and have 100mbps upstream and downstream. Lucky mormons.

[Morgan Evanar]

Orrr you could live in Sweden and get 10mbs for $40~50/month.

Least thats what my friend has been telling me, big into the trance mp3 scene. He probably isn't fibbing... =p. I want.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Mmmm.... 1.5m ADSL. About to become uncapped. Yummy.

Soon - office = pwnd with Fibre Optic, right into the telco's backbone. They swear I will get 1/4 latency times of the ISDN. Doubt that, but Fibre is damn sweet, especially as we will be a node off the network backbone. I am sooooo looking forward to it.

[Darth Viscera]

MP3's? Those are sooo ten minutes ago. The newest thing for audio is Ogg-Vorbis RC3. You can use it for up to 255 channels, so 6-channel audio is no problem for DVD-Audio ripping. Much more efficient with those KB's, too. Xiph.org develops it for free, too. No royalty checks to the Fraunhofer Institute.

[Sith Ahnk]

I'm getting 30-32 k now, and I'm lagged down by having my bro splitting the BW

[Darth Viscera]

are you sure that's not your download speed? 30-32k is way over the cap.

[Marcus Telcontar]

The Southern Cross cable lit up in November 2000, removing the bandwidth bottleneck between Australasia and the United States.

Originally designed to deliver 120 gigabits per second (Gbit/s) of fully protected capacity, Southern Cross is planned to be upgraded to 240 Gbit/s by early 2003, with the potential to increase total protected network capacity to 480 Gbit/s at a future date.

Southern Cross now has the potential to provide for Australasia's bandwidth requirements for the next five years, delivering 480 times the capacity of the PacRim system - enough to transfer a 3km-high stack of typed documents or eight full-length motion pictures every second.

That's the cable one ATM router hop away from my Fibre Connection when it's intstalled.

[Sith Ahnk]

Oh Viscera, I get WAY better than that
I may be on a diff @home from you.

[Darth Viscera]

yeah, different regions are supposed to have different up caps on @Home.

[Sith Ahnk]

I'm fairly sure mine is uncapped... my @home is, usually, faster than the DSL offered here.

[Darth Viscera]

There aren't any uncapped @Home regions, and it takes a lot of work to uncap a modem, what with DOCSIS in place.

[Sith Ahnk]

Ah well. *shrug* I'm not a tech junkie, I just know I pay half for about for times the speed of 56k

[Marcus Telcontar]

Well there are other variables about cable vs DSL

Cable is often shared bandwidth aacross a local loop, while DSL is dedicated. Thence, if your on cable, you could be sharing the local loop bandwidth with several users at the one time. Cable is definaltly better on a lightly loaded local loop, sucks when the loop gets saturated.

Still, why complain about 32K or 36K? There are people out there in dialup with no other alternative. I'll take 32K over 4K anyday

[Sith Ahnk]

Yeah, I'm one of two people on my local loop.
*discounting my brothers computer*
Most people up here are brainwashed by the Sprint commercial... they got the DSL/MSN explorer package.
Shaw and IE kick your ass.

[Morgan Evanar]

w00t.... 8-2 on a British pub server...

[Darth Viscera]

Hmm....I'll start taking screenshots every time i wind up in first place :)

[Morgan Evanar]

Get first place on The Ronin's Fortress when about half of it is Ars regulars, yeah, you might want to.

[Khan Surak]

Anyone play Rouge Spear?

I remember playing RS this one time at that bunker level with the trenches. I tked everyone when we started out, then camped and managed to not get the crap blown out of me when they started tossing frags at the window. When it was nearly down to flashbangs, I came out in the trench and they thought I was still in the pilbox and I came up behind 'em with my desert eagle. It was great. Real shoot-out trench warfare. :D I got called all kinds of names afterwards.

[Strider]

I'm playing MOHAA right now, I'll get Counter-Strike...never!

[Morgan Evanar]

I'm stingy when it comes to buying games soooo....

[Darth Viscera]

(see attached jpg to know what i'm talking about)

There we go. A headshot at several hundred yards while sniping with a Thompson, therefore without even a scope. And I have 40/40 vision! Muwhahaha! I am the RTCW lord! Approach within the range of my firearm bearing only an apple atop your head!

[Lady Vader]

CS fun! >D

Had I seen this thread earlier, I woulda joined ya for a game, Loki. Perhaps another time.