latency

[snowtalon]

ok my system usually does great even in big battles except for latency, often get message that your system has stopped recieving packets, or in major battles I will start moving toward someone and then start shooting run out of bullets hit reload and 5 minutes later gun reloads and next second I die, click on choose respawn and 40 seconds later i get to choose spot on map, the entire time the names of those being killed keeps on scrolling on in my list but guess its so busy telling me who has been killed that it cant do anything else.

I am on a dial up modem but not by choice, in BFE and no other alternatives but phone company is installing DSL in the area right now but not expected to be up for 6 months, is there anything I can do in the mean time, I have tried turning the badwith from medium to low and no luck.

I dont have probs with FPS sys is a pent 4 2.3ghz, 512 ram, geforce 4 64mb, just with the latency issue.

[TF_MrA]

well, sorry pal but there is nothing you can do until you get broadband. 56k is just too slow to receive all the packets in time to let you shoot your enemy. I would suggest either staying out of big battles until u get dsl or try to snipe, or maybe get a max and defend a base out of action.