dpb servers

[FreakBaller12]

whelp it's been a long and frustraighting day for me. tryign to get dpb to work. Well i finally get it to work go to find a game, there's 2 servers, one that wont let me b/c of soemthing like a protocol? and the other is full. can i put in servers so i can actaully play, i tried creating my own game, but i just sat there playing myself in a hyperpipe field

helllllllpppppp

[Matt Crawford]

Get steam......TONS of servers. I havemy own server on there, getting a 2nd tomorrow...but yeah, get steam at steampowered.net thats what most peeps use now.

[LittlePaintballBoy]

What he said, there is a good 20+ servers on steam. And the protocol thing is a version issue.

[digitard]

Go to http://www.paintballarizona.com they have their DPB server info there. Normally 12+ players when i check it.

[68magOwner]

i tried to get steam, but my cd key is taken, what do i do?

[FreakBaller12]

aghhh

so i finally get in and get to actually play, trying to get used to the controls n crap. Well it took about 4 minutes to load a map. It lagged and the guys talking were lagging. and my ping was like 275 and the highest the other had was like 150 and some had zero. is there somethign i can do to get less lag time? idk why it's doing this and i have dsl too.

[LittlePaintballBoy]

I heard someone say that lag was dependant on where you were compared to where the server was being hosted, not your modem:o I'm not actually sure though.

[digitard]

Think of it like this... You're "ping" is how many milliseconds it takes for your "signal" to be sent to the server, and returned to you.

The lower the better.

LAG normally occurs due to 2 things:
- 1) Your connection is just a distance away from the server and its taking a while to get the signal up and back.

- 2) Packet Loss: If your connection, or somewhere between your computer and the server connection, has a bad spot it can cause "packet loss" which will create lag because you're not sending/recieving the correct data since its got little gaps, this can also cause lag due to your computer getting various updates that aren't quite accurate, and same with the server.

If you have DSL go to http://www.dslreports.com and do a speed test from their tools section and get back here with the download/upload results and lets see what we can work with for you.

Dave

[FreakBaller12]

it's where the server is the problem. i went to a diff. room and it was less. thanks anyways!