Father Xmas

No, its bytes. Since the game was quite playable on dial-up back in the day, which maxed out at around 5 kilobytes per second down, those numbers are bytes per second.

There was an update years ago (5 or so) that significantly changed to amount of data the server sent. At the time there was a lot of graphs generated and presented in the forums showing the actual in game data rates during certain events and in certain zones showing maximum dial-up rates being exceeded, sometimes by a large amount. It wasn't until Freedom when the game's minimum requirements drop dial-up as an option.

When players come looking for help they are looking for other players who know facts and not players who include their "uninformed opinions" in their responses.

Your crack on screen resolution is like a kid in auto shop commenting that the problem the class is trying to diagnose is related to the tire size and rims because he's never seen those size tires and that model car before.

We are trying to triage players problems here. Sadly the PC as a gaming platform isn't plug and play like a console. This has been the truth going as far back as the DOS days when gamers had custom boot configurations for each game to squeeze out enough free memory to run the latest Wing Commander or SimCity 2 or Crusader: No Remorse without it crashing.

That's why we ask for both the CoHHelper and HiJack This reports. We are looking for 3rd party utilities running that we have seen causing problems in the past. We want to see if the system is a laptop or desktop since updating graphic drivers can be a real problem for certain brands of laptops or that laptops more likely have overheating problems than desktops.

And even with all that we still see cases where one player using video card X is having horrible framerates while 10 others with the same or less powerful card have the game running smooth as silk and we don't know why that one player has so much trouble. We want others to play this game we enjoy so much.

There have been players in the past who chimed in the Tech forums whose solution to all problems is a format/reinstall of Windows. Sure, that'll likely work every time since it gets rid of all the accumulated crud that may have been left behind by dozens of game's copy protection schemes, multiple video driver installs, overclocking utilities, etc. but the rest of us are looking for less drastic measures first.

And while your intentions to help others are noble and honorable, there is nothing wrong saying nothing when you can't add anything constructive to the conversation. None of us regulars on the Tech forum know everything, can diagnose every problem and that's why we don't chime in on every new thread with our "opinion". If we've seen this problem before and remember the answer (or gosh, search for forum for the previous discovered answer since none of us are Data) sure we will answer. If we haven't we may ask more questions. And if we simply don't have a clue, we usually don't say a thing.

I'm in awe of all your talent m'lady. Well done.

And this is why some of us react badly to your posts. You considering something "odd" doesn't mean it's unusual to those of us who are better informed but the way you phrase your answers makes it sound like you are knowledgeable on the subject when in fact you aren't. You should understand how that can irritate those of us who are in fact experts.

Nice Spinnerette reference.