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Since Turn 10 has promised a fix to the multiplayer connectivity problems tomorrow, I may race with you guys Saturday. The car/track combo will most likely guarantee a back of the pack finish for me though. :P
 
I'll be lucky to make back of the pack at this rate..

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it's been a funny old season so far..
me with my faulty broadband (was it 4 or 5 races I missed).
Others with the dreaded RROD
or the mysterious wheel glitch gremlins.

others who couldn't pickup points because they got picked up by another car!

Who said this isn't a simulation of real racing :)
 
Wiggs
Ouch! Why so slow? What happened? :boggled:
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Well, it runs, when flat out at a mind warping 3.5Mb/sec .. its adsl delivered via about 5km of overhead copper.

Its been solidly reliable until I had a line fault in January.. you may remember I was connecting via wireless 3G whilst the line was fixed.

BT fixed the line from a PSTN point of view, I had to get them out again to get it to reliably synch with my router at more than 1Mb/s. The router is now always connected at greater than 4Mb/s but the Ip data throughput varies..(the line profile is always the same)

If it's not my ISP being an ass and applying some weird QOS on the line. It's a contention Issue (strange it only showed up after they fixed my PSTN line) at the exchange.

The only decent broadband in the UK is the virgin or BT fibre services. Sadly one of the tradeoffs you make when you live outside of town, is that you move out of the areas that were cabled for cable in the 70's (virgin use the ducts from redifusion (70's pay tv provider).

BT is only interested in prtecting it's PSTN business and delivering services to the masses via it's aging infrastructure, which it will upgrade where the ROI is justified.

Sadly my shack out of town, and the few hundred that live in our village aren't enough for BT or any other provider to justify the investment in new infrastructure.

of course the delivery of other services, itunes, netflix,etc. via the internet is causing an increased pressure on that flimsy network, and the planned capacity updates are now not happening fast enough. couple that with the state of the worlds economies and you can see that nobody is in a rush to fix this...

The Government enforced sales model doesn't help, as it forces a fragmented service delivery model (to improve competition - who wants to compete for a small exchange with a low subscriber base!) so my ISP, a company owned by BT, buys Wholesale IP broadband from BT Wholesale, a company owned by BT, and delivers it via another BT company, BT openreach's overhead cables to me. In order to have the openreach cables connected to my home, I need to have a contract with another bt company, BT ltd and pay for a PSTN telephone line.....

so getting anything fixed with so many parties involved takes forever, even if you know what the issue is.

I'd love to give them there dial up back.. but wireless is about 4 times more expensive (per GB), and latency and upload on satellite's a non starter.
 
That's just sad. :\ We have some areas in the Netherlands that don't have a good wired connection but for those people they set up a very fast wireless connection. It's a bit more expensive but not more than ~ €50,- a month..

But in other words looney, you're ****ed?

I'm at work now, pretty fast:
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I'm jealous at the upload speed, could host some lag-free races with that!
 
Carlos
That's just sad. :\ We have some areas in the Netherlands that don't have a good wired connection but for those people they set up a very fast wireless connection. It's a bit more expensive but not more than ~ €50,- a month..

But in other words looney, you're ****ed?

I'm at work now, pretty fast:
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I'm jealous at the upload speed, could host some lag-free races with that!
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Carlos.. If I was on an Island, they'd provide subsidized high speed wireless broadband, but I'm 10 miles from the outskirts of the biggest city in Scotland! and that cost per month is about what I pay for this crap, when you include the line rental.. that's rip off Britain for you.

So your correct I'm 🤬 .. I had to publicly shame my ISP into action yesterday so lets see where we go now.
 
I have to make it this week. I like that car and love the track. See you guys Saturday! Oh and the constant COD playing is my 16 year old brother that lives with me sometimes. So please don't feel like I'm ignoring the race invites.
 
Man, I wish I was able to put more time in. Less than an hour and got 10th.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

1 Forcone 458 Italia 0:01:00.331 10
2 DeadlyDC 458 Italia 0:01:00.496 9
3 Fezz ST 458 Italia 0:01:00.663 8
4 hennessey861 458 Italia 0:01:00.768 7
5 SilentDrifterGT 458 Italia 0:01:00.989 6
6 MarmiteEngineer 458 Italia 0:01:01.037 5
7 A Man Hamster 458 Italia 0:01:01.041 4
8 rockymtnrider 458 Italia 0:01:01.12 3
9 DomasRC 458 Italia 0:01:01.156 2
10 zr1chris 458 Italia 0:01:01.305 1
11 SatansReverence 458 Italia 0:01:01.447
12 Carlos Sultana 458 Italia 0:01:01.45
 
It shall be an epic race tonight! :) I think it's gonna be a pain to overtake on the Nürb... And the braking points.. You can brake sooooo late with that thing, we should see some huge crashes! :D
 
Should be an epic race, but I would urge extra care because if you wrap it up on this track your a long way from the pits
 
hennessey86
Should be an epic race, but I would urge extra care because if you wrap it up on this track your a long way from the pits
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So true, but we do not use sim damage in this series, but it brings up a good idea.

I usually race with damage on simulation (season/online with other friends), mostly so I can practice my shift points and aim for no wear and tear on my trans. Also I prefer hood view.

When I was doing some trial runs with this weeks selection, I used cockpit and of course damage on simulation. It really became quite intense. Anyway, would any of you guys be up for a series later on with forced cockpit and simulation damage? Only reason I would like to do this is to up the realism and entertainment.

Also, up until this track selection, I never liked the Ring, but now I can see why it is one of a kind. My favorite parts of the track are the elevation changes and some unique turns, hands down my new favorite........good luck today!
 
Cool, lost my connection to Xbox live. Hope it doesn't last long.... :S

edit: Hey guys, if I can't get in the lobby straight away, can you give me a couple minutes to sort out any issues? I seem to be having some minor network issues... It's kind of a grand finale, isn't it? :P
 
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Another design by Flamve47, :lol: he thought he was doing it for the livery contest. I thought it was cool how I could add the hamster behind the carbon fiber though.
 
zr1chris
AlertI cleanup our club a little. I am still getting requests for club invites so I had to remove some dead weight. I removed 11 members this morning. It shouldn't have affected anyone reading this most likely. On FM.net's My Forza you can see when the last time your friends have played FM4 so I removed almost everyone that hasn't played since 2011.
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Just to let you know I've started playing Forza again! Sorry for such a long absence, got a bit wrapped up in Christmas games until now...
 
m7ammed
Shame I couldn't even try to qualify internet was having issues all week just got sorted out today :(
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I feel your pain!!

Good Luck to all the club racers tonight for the series finale.

Keep it clean and enjoy the race..

I'm off out to Party.. :cheers:
 
Good luck guys. Unfortunately its just becoming impractical for me to race in the main races since theyre at 5am for me. I might still join races every now and than though
 
ANNOUNCEMENT:

Congratulations to Forcone for winning our club championships!!!!!!!! :cheers:
(pm sent in regards to your prizes)


Great job everyone in a very successful first season in our club championships. 👍
 
Good season and good racing guys. It really makes a huge difference when all members/racers are clean (not on purpose crashes) and competitive.

Looking forward to more events and seasons with the club.

I will post the Livery Competition details later today (separate thread). The comp won't start till next week but I thought I would get some feedback from the club participants in order to tweak loose ends before the ''Real Deal'':lol:.

Now everyone go drink a beer/pint and relax.............of course if your of age:cheers:.
 
Thanks all for a very nice and fun season! :D Looking forward to next season.

MuchoJimbo
Now everyone go drink a beer/pint and relax.............of course if your of age:cheers:.
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Yes please! Going to party hard tonight woopwoop!

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And you guys should really check out Project X :lol: Well, if you like teenage bewbs and butts. Ohw and there is a steamy midget too...
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