man I wish I was on broadband again...I have the PG2 on xbox and can't race live, could get NFS but same case...this sucks! Then again I will be away for six months!

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I'll try again tonight. I have an Ethernet modem (no USB), the XP firewalls are off, and no router.

I'll try this site when I get home and see what is says about my IP address http://www.whatismyip.com.

Man I was bummed last night! I ended up driving angry and got a 1:24:xx lap time on the Monty Carlo Circuit 3 track in the '73 RS, while racing 7 other cars.

You guys are in big trouble if I ever get in there! :p

And it wouldn't run on my XP home w/o changing gimme.dll.

I was racing yesterday with a 56K connection and had no trouble playing, I even took first place a few times. I was getting the same "connecting" screenshot for like ten minutes when I tried to log on to emcon's game. Then I entered masraum's (Steve) IP address and joined his game with no problems. I didn't even do anything with the gimme.dll file. It's on again tonight!!

I connect at like 40kb sec...would that work?

If so I need NFS...:D

K9, Pari was connecting last night over dialup, I could tell by watching has car and his ping times that he was somewhat handicapped by the dialup, but not too bad. With a good 40K connection you should be able to play.

Shoot, I used to play over a 28k connection. As long as the server was on a cable modem or something we were fine.

Yeah H.D, you'll be fine with 40k. All you need is the game. As much software as Germany creates, I would assume they sell NFSPU somewhere over there.

Thanks for the invite!
 

masraum left a note on the 914 board looking for more racers. I would love to do it. Gotta reinstall the game and wheel, but I'll be ready- Didn't I read 9 eastern, 8 central, 7 mountain, 6 pacific? I'll be checking this thread about 10 minutes prior for the server addy. Hope I can get in. I may let my 11 year old drive. He is much better than I am with this game- something about practice maybe?

Thank again!

awesome!! Hopefully things go better for us tonight. If leland can come maybe we can teach him how to host since he is also on Cable.

I have no probs hosting, but you'd definately have to give a tutorial.

I'm not very savy with these machines.

if this PelicanParts - NFS PU thing continues to gain in popularity, which i think it will... i wonder if wayne could place a "sticky" or some other permanent link to a thread on who is hosting or looking for a race.... wayne????

heck... NFS PU could become a nice interface for the PelicanParts chat room :)

i bought the game today. It's dirt cheap now.

Sp it's 9pm Eastern time tonight? That's New York time right, 5 hours behind GMT?

And all I need (hopefully) is the V3.5 patch.....

That gives me till 2am...doh.... to practice.

Sweet, we'll be there.

I just got my software for the game!

What time is all this going down in PST?

"If you aint rubbing pixels, it aint racing"

It'll probably start around 6 pacific since I get home at about that time, but last night it didn't get really cranked up for about an hour after that.

ATTN: All you pelicans that just bought the game, make sure that you go in evolution and win the races to buy at least the 2.7 RS. If you don't have anything in your garage aside from a 356 or a 914, you can count on getting smoked by Leland or Steve who have GT's. Although there was that one race yesterday where Steve beat me in the 2.7 RS and Lee's 993 turbo. I guess it's the driver and not the car :D.

Heheh, like I said, being the host of the server helps, I don't have to fight lag.

It also doesn't hurt that I have played through the game several times (though not in about 6-9 months) and have some pretty tricked out cars, but there are plenty of people around with amazing hotlap times that will blow me out of the water.

Oh, and the race that Pari is talking about I was driving a '67S to their '73 RS and 993tt. ;) I think Pari ran some really good interferrence for me on Leland. I think he ended up upside down or actually was so far ahead that he came back looking for us.

We just used the stock non-modified cars. Online you can play any car, whether it is in your garage or not. You can't swap parts, or monkey with the setup, but that is OK because everyone is equally handicapped. ;)

Tom

sure, I'm game for any car, any track.