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To: peter michaelson who wrote (1601)	6/28/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Off topic--V.90 and latency. Just when you think you have your dream machine (no I did not assemble it myself) still you are disappointed...here is the story: I tried battle.net (Online multiplayer for StarCraft) for the first time last night... Battlenet gives a rating for each player's connection speed--specifically the latency (I think). I am pretty sure that is what it is having asked about it in one of the chat areas. I was very disappointed to find that I was 4Red, not many players have such a low rating, there were a smattering of yellow, and quite a few 2Greens. Red is bad, green is good. Having gone out and got myself that new computer, with what I beleive to be a v.90 modem (drivers show v.90), and connecting through AT&T Worldnet with a X2 number, this is very disappointing. There seem to be some things you can do to speed up your connection, I've played with some registry settings (through a shareware interface) and that seemed to speed downloads up by altering the size of packets (?), but latency seems to have little to do with all that, and more to do with your ISP and the quality of the line. I'll seed the the StarCraft thread on usenet with my question, and the battle.net tech support thread and report back if I find any useful information, any thoughts from the folks here on SI would be much appreciated--I'd rather not have to leave Worldnet to get this fixed, surely that is not the cure.