[rob5625]

turns out it was that my "use proxy server" setting was turned off.
it increased my download speed by 150-200k! biggrin:

guess it worked for my upload speed too cause my server shows a ping of 90 now, that's a dedicated server set at 12 people at 4800 maxrate, and i also had my messenger runing too.

im gonna try tweeking it a little like 10 guys at 4000 maxrate. should i stay away from using a dedicated server with cable?
i also use the same pc to run the server and play on.

i read the maxrate is figured out by max.upload speed x # of players = maxrate. is that right, wrong?

my tracert showed me 4 hops with the ping never over 25. guess that'll change throughout the day but it looks like everything is fine.

thanx for the help, its much appreciated, cya! fire2: