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From: "Henrikki Hakkanen" <Henrikki.Hakkanen@compaq.com>
Subject: Re: GPL - Tim's Mexico race
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Vitzthum wrote in message ...
[snip]
>I started the race and even had a half decent start before getting
>bounced by a Lotus that had started ahead of me on the grid but spun
>wildly across the track after hitting a wall.  I went airborne and


That would be me :-( ... sorry about that ... Gotta keep practising those
starts.

>landed but continued.  At this point there were no other cars and I kept
>the throttle pressed to go down the straight.  No cars I figured to be a
>bad signal... in Warbirds loss of other planes meant a "yellow beacon"
>which indicated packets lost and an imminent disco unless things turned
>around quickly and packets started arriving.  Sure enough, a few moments
>later I disco'd and couldn't get back in because the race was being run.


I had no problems. I connected from Finland with 64k ISDN, got the pole but
blew the start ... there was some warping with other cars but I've seen
worse. Even the start was pretty fluid .. or would've been without me
spoiling it.
My latency reading was .333.

Sorry i can't be more help to ya ...

Hena



