Hi there!

I have a question about a problem me and my friends are experiencing when we try to play Direct Connect.

Each of us has DSL, and computer-power to match it, 2.4Ghz and so on...

Here is the senario:

Harry(friend)
Walkman(Friend)
Vicool(me)

Harry creates a Direct Connect game, Walkman is joining and they play their match mithout any problems at all, no lag at all.

Harry creates a Direct Connect game, Vicool(me) is joining and there is no lag whats so ever.

Walkman creates a Direct Connect game, Vicool(me) joins and they play the match, with HUGE lag for Walkman, but none for Vicool(me) ???

Vicool(me) creates a Direct Connect game, Walkman is joining and they play their match, with HUGE lag for Vicool(me), but none for Walkman this time !???


We have tried speaking to our ISP's, reinstalling Windows on our machines, checking the hardware, we even tried it on LAN, still experiencing lag.

What is wrong? are we missing something?

sometimes if you are running too many programs in the background.. also the distance and how many hoops the packets have to travel thru. Different isp's have different download speeds.... and upload speeds.. so maybe the problem is that the dsl that walkman and vicool have cannot upload the data as fast as the connector is downloading it.. which means it will be smooth for the visitor... and the creator will struggle and be jumpy...