Well, actually, yes. It's worse. Throughput and latency are two different things. I have had lower pings and what seems like worse packet loss since the upgrade.color me jealous..do you see a difference playing BF2142 with those great speeds?Speaking of Cable, just switched fully to Comcast (they bought Adelphia and finally migrated my area to Comcast):Speekeasy Speed Tests:Test 1. Download Speed: 12743 kbps (1592.9 KB/sec transfer rate)Upload Speed: 721 kbps (90.1 KB/sec transfer rate)Test 2.Download Speed: 12457 kbps (1557.1 KB/sec transfer rate)Upload Speed: 719 kbps (89.9 KB/sec transfer rate)Test 3.Download Speed: 12455 kbps (1556.9 KB/sec transfer rate)Upload Speed: 721 kbps (90.1 KB/sec transfer rate)That's BLAZING speed. Of course, this is the top level premium service, but work picks up the tab, otherwise, i'd "settle" for their 8MB service.The roofers working on my neighbor's house burned through my cable with a blow torch while I was playing yesterday afternoon. Thanks morons! No gaming for me until it's fixed. I'll have to survive by stealing wifi.I played a few rounds from like 9-10PM EST. All by my lonesome.I figured there would be a few of you on tonight. Nope - just Corp and I. I am now CPO Gold - next stop, Warrant Officer.
I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.

Did not work for me - tells me it is not available in my country.EA sucks donkey dongs.I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.![]()
Did not work for me - tells me it is not available in my country.EA sucks donkey dongs.I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.![]()
Utah is another country...I had to do that too.I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.![]()
Yes, I am in. Mark Davis will likely join as well.anyone up for a 12 team baseball league?
I had to do that too.I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.![]()
I am out tonight, resolving heat issue tomorrow.I haven't done roto baseball since A-Rod was a rookie. I'll play as long as there is a string innings pitched rule.anyone up for a 12 team baseball league?
What are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??
Played NS for about an hour today.The maps are quite cool. One is at night. One is a city map with titans. You breathe frosty breath on all the maps because it's very cold. The new skins on the vehicles is snow camoflauge and very cool. The hachimoto is a blast, but you are very susceptible to rifle fire. Driver and Gunner are highly exposed. But the gunner has a rapid fire grenade launcher + a right click TV missile. Driver has forward firing walker type guns. Did not get in a goliath yet, but I did engage one with Pilum. He won. You get a point for taking out the auto-repair units on the goliath so maybe the zeller can do that? By the way, awesome info Maelstrom about the walker knee. It worked to perfection this morning. I'll never sit still in a walker again.
With wedding rehearsal tonight (BIL) and multiple PC crashes last night not sure when I can fire up NS 
Budget about $1500-1800Was looking at dell/Gateway with Pentuim Core 2 Duo2 G RAMWanted 320-500 Hard Drive17-19 inch monitorVariables...Processor speedVideo card - I tend to like Nvidia....the debate was 7600 v 7900 v 8800.....I didn't want to blow the bank on one...wanted to be able to play most games (BF/Supreme Commander, etc). Could do mid range with an upgrade card in 1 year.....but will the midrange cards work OK on these newer games? Any recs?? Thanks!!What are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??
Are you willing to build your own??Budget about $1500-1800Was looking at dell/Gateway with Pentuim Core 2 Duo2 G RAMWanted 320-500 Hard Drive17-19 inch monitorVariables...Processor speedVideo card - I tend to like Nvidia....the debate was 7600 v 7900 v 8800.....I didn't want to blow the bank on one...wanted to be able to play most games (BF/Supreme Commander, etc). Could do mid range with an upgrade card in 1 year.....but will the midrange cards work OK on these newer games? Any recs?? Thanks!!What are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??

Can you wait until April? NVidia is unleashing its 8600 Ultra, which will retail around $180 but perform about on par with the 8800 GTS. If you want to build your own, you can have an absolute monster of a machine for $1500.Are you willing to build your own??Budget about $1500-1800Was looking at dell/Gateway with Pentuim Core 2 Duo2 G RAMWanted 320-500 Hard Drive17-19 inch monitorVariables...Processor speedVideo card - I tend to like Nvidia....the debate was 7600 v 7900 v 8800.....I didn't want to blow the bank on one...wanted to be able to play most games (BF/Supreme Commander, etc). Could do mid range with an upgrade card in 1 year.....but will the midrange cards work OK on these newer games? Any recs?? Thanks!!What are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??![]()
Thanks! I did not know that about the new card....may have to wait then! Although hearing you guys talk about this game has me chomping at the bit....used to play Unreal Tournament a few years ago, but nothing since. As for building my own....I am moderately tech savy, but not confident enough....plus a brand name will please the wife which is impt as the machine is more for video editing, not gaming....Can you wait until April? NVidia is unleashing its 8600 Ultra, which will retail around $180 but perform about on par with the 8800 GTS. If you want to build your own, you can have an absolute monster of a machine for $1500.Are you willing to build your own??Budget about $1500-1800Was looking at dell/Gateway with Pentuim Core 2 DuoWhat are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??
2 G RAM
Wanted 320-500 Hard Drive
17-19 inch monitor
Variables...
Processor speed
Video card - I tend to like Nvidia....the debate was 7600 v 7900 v 8800.....I didn't want to blow the bank on one...wanted to be able to play most games (BF/Supreme Commander, etc). Could do mid range with an upgrade card in 1 year.....but will the midrange cards work OK on these newer games? Any recs?? Thanks!!![]()
The problem with getting a Dell or such is two-fold - 1) you will have to replace that power supply right off the bat, and might want to look into a new CPU Heatsink fan as well. Dell/other power sources blow and if you want to game, you will have to upgrade that. Dell heatsink/fans are proprietary crap, too. 2) the motherboards suck and have locked BIOS, so you will not be able to do any tweaking or overclocking.That said, you will get a lot of bang for the buck given they practically give away systems with their LCD's.Thanks! I did not know that about the new card....may have to wait then! Although hearing you guys talk about this game has me chomping at the bit....used to play Unreal Tournament a few years ago, but nothing since. As for building my own....I am moderately tech savy, but not confident enough....plus a brand name will please the wife which is impt as the machine is more for video editing, not gaming....Can you wait until April? NVidia is unleashing its 8600 Ultra, which will retail around $180 but perform about on par with the 8800 GTS. If you want to build your own, you can have an absolute monster of a machine for $1500.Are you willing to build your own??Budget about $1500-1800Was looking at dell/Gateway with Pentuim Core 2 DuoWhat are you looking at buying right now? How future proof do you want it and what is the budget?About to get a new computer and thought about this game....any recs on Processor speed and Video card I should be targeting (moderate range) to make this game run nicely!??
2 G RAM
Wanted 320-500 Hard Drive
17-19 inch monitor
Variables...
Processor speed
Video card - I tend to like Nvidia....the debate was 7600 v 7900 v 8800.....I didn't want to blow the bank on one...wanted to be able to play most games (BF/Supreme Commander, etc). Could do mid range with an upgrade card in 1 year.....but will the midrange cards work OK on these newer games? Any recs?? Thanks!!![]()
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Check in the ***OFFICIAL*** Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 thread. I think it's buried down on page 227. MadCow started it so you can't search using his name.Anyone know where I can get a copy of Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 fairly cheap?
lolCheck in the ***OFFICIAL*** Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 thread. I think it's buried down on page 227. MadCow started it so you can't search using his name.Anyone know where I can get a copy of Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 fairly cheap?
From reviews I have read, they say the Goliath is slower than crap, but absolutely devastating if used properly. Look forward to giving it a go.Just played a quick round of assault lines. Spawned in the goliath. Very cool. grenade gunners are pretty devastating but the guns have very little arc so you can't really shoot over things. You have about a 150 degree field of fire depending on which side you are on. The machine guys are more like 270 degrees. The machine guns don't run out of ammo but the GL turrets do. Quickly too. Your commander has to really be keeping an eye on the goliath. It repairs itself at about 2 points per second. Railgun and Pilum hits take about 20 pts off. So doing the math there is would take 6 pilum + at + railgun (of some combination of RDX) shots within a 20 second period to take it down. Far from difficult if you work as a team. The coolest thing was, When I re-spawned, I ran in an infantry screen around the goliath. You can run faster than it moves, so you can provide 360 degree infantry support on the goliath. Clans that communicate will RUN THROUGH assault lines. The infantry screen is cool because guys are focused on the goliath, and understandably so. You can clear out the bevy of Engy threats in the path of the goliath.A full goliath (5 people) with commander's attention and a two or three man infantry screen are a devastating combination.FYI the XIIIth server was updated to NS this morning. I played my first round there.
It's slow and it sounds like real armor moving. It's cool. Holds 5 people. Driver 2 grenadiers, 2 machine gunners.From reviews I have read, they say the Goliath is slower than crap, but absolutely devastating if used properly. Look forward to giving it a go.Just played a quick round of assault lines. Spawned in the goliath. Very cool. grenade gunners are pretty devastating but the guns have very little arc so you can't really shoot over things. You have about a 150 degree field of fire depending on which side you are on. The machine guys are more like 270 degrees. The machine guns don't run out of ammo but the GL turrets do. Quickly too. Your commander has to really be keeping an eye on the goliath. It repairs itself at about 2 points per second. Railgun and Pilum hits take about 20 pts off. So doing the math there is would take 6 pilum + at + railgun (of some combination of RDX) shots within a 20 second period to take it down. Far from difficult if you work as a team. The coolest thing was, When I re-spawned, I ran in an infantry screen around the goliath. You can run faster than it moves, so you can provide 360 degree infantry support on the goliath. Clans that communicate will RUN THROUGH assault lines. The infantry screen is cool because guys are focused on the goliath, and understandably so. You can clear out the bevy of Engy threats in the path of the goliath.A full goliath (5 people) with commander's attention and a two or three man infantry screen are a devastating combination.FYI the XIIIth server was updated to NS this morning. I played my first round there.
Humor. I like it! Search on Mad Cow and you'll get 30k threads about everything from glasses (thanks again) to pages about TW:Rome and building your own pc. I know. I tried.Gator Shawn said:Check in the ***OFFICIAL*** Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 thread. I think it's buried down on page 227. MadCow started it so you can't search using his name.Davej626 said:Anyone know where I can get a copy of Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 fairly cheap?
Just install it and look in BFHQ. The badges are easy. 5 kills in Titan, 5 kills in Assault Lines. Then hours become an issue for the silver.The ribbons will all take time. 2 goliath kills (which is harder to get than a core)Shawn - do you have a list of the badges that give a free unlock and their requirements? I want to make a beeline for a few things and that will be my best bet, since the NS unlocks with badges can get vanilla ones, too.
And they each carry an unlock, no?Just install it and look in BFHQ. The badges are easy. 5 kills in Titan, 5 kills in Assault Lines. Then hours become an issue for the silver.The ribbons will all take time. 2 goliath kills (which is harder to get than a core)Shawn - do you have a list of the badges that give a free unlock and their requirements? I want to make a beeline for a few things and that will be my best bet, since the NS unlocks with badges can get vanilla ones, too.
No. Goliath is ONLY in Assault Lines mode. Those maps have a natural linear progression like Berlin. You can't attack their back base and win unless you hold all of the other flags (I think). You'll see. It's a blast.If my day weren't so freaking busy with patients and me having to have corporate taxes to the accountant by end of day, I would have given it a shot already.Is the Goliath in Titan maps, as well?
Most of us had the same problem, see my post last page on how to "fix" the problemSince my internet was down, I didn't pre order. Now I can't get the freakin' EA link to work. It keeps saying "Session timed out." I guess I'll keep trying.![]()
I tried multiple times before I got it ordered. What worked for me was start up EA link and then log out (but keep EA link open). Click on the link to preorder and download Northern Strike while logged out. Clicking on the Preload link will bring up the log in screen to log on and download. Its stupid but thats what worked for meShawn - how did you already order Northern Strike? I try to but it keeps erroring in EA Link.![]()
Thanks. I'll give it a go tonight.I am on a roll today fellas. I got banned from another server for abusing the commander with wit and one word. He was sitting in Remagen with a WALKER just sitting there. I told him to get out - he said no, that that he was defending the base. Well, I broadcast what he was doing to our team and they jumped on him and told him to resign, etc.So he just sits there and there is no Mutiny option. Next thing you know, that base is captured.I type in "Good thing you were there to defend that flag, dip####."And so I got banned after he had been spamming the F word at me and our team.
