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Silverracer
S3 licensed
Hi

What's the ping to the server(s) that you connect to? And what do you mean by "result in being locked up?"

What type of connection are you using? Dial up - or broadband? Are you using wi-fi or tethering via phone etc.?

If possible, run tests from both www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net and post the results here. Might be able to see if this is mainly down to internet connectivity issues... When you get the pingtest results - have a look here: http://www.pingtest.net/learn.php

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Silverracer
S3 licensed
Hi, yes, quite possibly it is something on their end.

What type of connection is he using? i.e. if he's using wi-fi or tethering via phone etc., get him to connect via a direct connection (ethernet).

If possible, ask him to run tests from both www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net and post the results here.

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daveb948576
S2 licensed
ok it's just happened again, no warning, nothing out of the ordinary just driving along and then i get in red, 'lost connection to host' try and rejoin with a message 'host refused connection'

i'm wondering if my isp is putting an i.p. ban on due to tethering?
email from lfs tech saying i may get banned, i'm confused, please help.
daveb948576
S2 licensed
i use the multiplayer servers

i'm 28 years old

sensible

don't cause trouble and dont want any trouble.

i use my samsung galaxy tab to tether the internet

i kept getting knocked out of random servers for no reason just while driving along, i tried to reconnect but it said host refused connection.

i used a different server, after a day or so in the evening whilst driving along the same thing happens, i thought it may of been an issue with the tethering maybe some lag

a week later i get this email from lfstech

"Hello daveb948576,

It has come to our attention that you have been banned on LFS servers more than a few times lately.

We must warn you that if you keep being banned, we will issue you with a temporary ban of 30 days, from all LFS online activity.

Regards,

Live for Speed

***This is an automated email***

i've not caused any trouble or had any arguments, i stay out of peoples way if the blue flag comes by. any ides or help on this matter?

dave.
Matrixi
S3 licensed


LFS rig when oscar mike:
2011 Apple MBP i5 13"
2010 iPhone 4 serving 3G with tethering
tristancliffe
S3 licensed
I don't think viruses are a real concern. I've only had one on my PC ever. I don't understand how people get so many...

Flash is out of date, and I hate websites that use it. Even before I got an iPhone (and since, whilst using a desktop) I tended to leave flash websites or choose an HTML alternative. Whether it's buggy, a memory hog or whatever doesn't matter to me, I just find it horrible to look at and use.

Homescreen Twitter and Facebook feeds are not nice to use. I much prefer a full screen view of the feed. Granted a widget view is good for quick updates, but not so good for catching up on the last 8 hours of developments whilst I was asleep.

Androids turn-by-turn navigation is quite good considering, so you are right to show off about that feature. But as I've bought the TomTom app, my iphone is at least as good as a dedicated device for a fraction of the price (the cost of the app). Sure, I paid more for turn-by-turn than you, but it's not a deal-breaker for me.

Hands free use (Voice Control) is pretty poor on my girlfriend's Desire S. I tried it for about an hour the other night, and even in a quiet environment it got most things wrong. So I don't think you can brag too much about that. My handsfree kit does more reliable voice control (for calls only admittedly), but as I don't text or email whilst driving it's not a biggie. Choosing which podcast to listen to or album to listen to isn't much of a chore with a finger.

Tethering can be useful. Depends on your lifestyle. I used it once in 2003 to unlock LFS behind a uni firewall. I've never needed it or wanted it since.

I still think the interface overall is better on the iPhone. It's more of an integrated feeling. Yes, we miss out on a few things. But the iPhone has things the androids don't (or, at least, don't do well). The choice is a personal one.

The more I use the HTC the less inclined I am to get one at the moment. I admit this is partly because my girlfriend has configured aspects of it in the stupidest way possible (but it's her phone, so who am I to argue).

By the looks of it, iOS5 will add a lot of the features you use below to make the Android seem better.

Quote from ColeusRattus :Allright, then...

I guess you have a point there. Flash is evil and shouldn't be used at all, and my phone's constantly downloading viruses MADE BY GOOGLE INC. THEMSELVES...

I contemplate what you said while I read news, keep up to date on facebook and twitter and check my calendar all on my phone's homescreen, thanks to widgets. Perhaps I go out on a small journey with my free, preinstalled ready to use turn-by-turn navigation.

And even while driving, i can use all of my phones functions hands free, simply by talking to it. And should I use my laptop while out, I might simply tether my phone's 3g over wifi to it, so I can be online with a real PC should my phone not suffice.

But still, I suppose the iPhone is by far the superior product, that shitstomps all the features it shares, and that are not available on the android market (which has 200.000 apps atm, out of which 57% are free of charge, as opposed to the humungous amount of 300.000 apps on the iPhone appstore, out of which 28% are free...)

Matrixi
S3 licensed
Anyone saying Symbian is good in any way at all in the modern day, has to be trolling hard. It was a decent phone OS back in 2002 when the 7650 was introduced, but now it's so outdated compared to Android and iOS that it really is FUBAR.

I hate to be saying this being an ex-nokia fan, but they have dropped the ball and then shot themself in the foot once too often when it comes to their decisions how to design phones in the last 5 years or so. The decision to go with WinMob certainly won't help them.

Attached screenshots, my iPad. Had to loose the jailbreak today after updating to 4.3.1 to get the 3G wifi tethering with the iPhone.
Ball Bearing Turbo
S3 licensed
Thanks for the opinions fellas, I appreciate it!

I ended up with lowly (compared to what's out there) HTC Hero. Pretty decent little Android phone though. I decided that tethering was important to me for one thing. The phone was free, they gave me a $75 gift card, and I only pay $55/mo for 3 gigs data, 450 daytime min (I never use daytime), 6pm free evening/weekend, free call ID/VM/waiting, no activation fee... seemed like a great deal.

Plus I just couldn't live with myself if I put more money into Steve Jobs' pocket and contributed to Apple's retarded iSociety (man I wish iRacing was called something else).
Jakg
S3 licensed
What do you use your phone for?

The iPhone is restrictive and expensive... but what it does do it does simply and brilliantly. Like all Apple products... but you pay a price.

Android (when rooted) gives you much more control over the device. No company deciding what apps you can't have, and you have a lot more customizability. But it's not 100% stable, and no Android phone is quite as slick as the iPhone. Android is going to keep being developed, and you have a lot more chance of getting the new "good stuff" on an Android phone than on an iPhone.

Personally, a keyboard is the killer feature. I *hate* software keyboards, so I bought a T-Mobile G1 (outside of the UK - HTC Dream). It's the launch Android phone, and is now (thanks to the custom ROM community) running the latest 2.2 version of Android. It does everything I need (read emails, check Facebook / Twitter, surf the internet, tethering and record my MPG, oh yeah and be a phone) with a great keyboard... but its not exactly quick. I love Android, but i'm really starting to get bored with the "lag" in my phone. And it's still the only decent Android phone with a hardware keyboard.

The iPhone has an *amazing* software keyboard - I can use it just as fast as I can the hardware one on my phone. Based purely on this, and it's overall slickness, probably going to be my next phone...
Velociround
S2 licensed
Well it's been 5 months since I contracted this unlimited data plan (not unlimited texts or talk time, just unlimited data. Data costs $28, but total plan cost with texts (30sms/month) and talk time (60minutes/month) is about $39). My carrier is TIM. As far as I know it really is unlimited, but I haven't even managed to download more than 4GB/month on the phone yet... If there is a limit, it must be very much higher than my normal usage. I almost don't use tethering though... when I first contracted it I used it a lot because GVT wasn't installed home yet, but now I just don't need it... I use it mostly when my sister comes home with her netbook, in which case I open a wifi hotspot on the phone for her to use the internet.

Anyway, what I really need is a unlimited text plan because last month I sent over 300 sms and I had to pay an extra $66 because of it.
dawesdust_12
No longer welcome
To be fair.. what "new" ideas can you do in a phone.. rather than simply supporting new networks. It runs custom applications, has cameras, makes phone calls, sends and recieves texts and MMS's, does tethering, etcera. The only thing I can think of that it doesn't have, is WiFi tethering..
dawesdust_12
No longer welcome
That's the thing you haffto watch out for. Over here atleast, it's common for carriers to take out the needed things out of the stock ROM to disable tethering. I had to flash my own ROM to add Tethering (although the main intent was to update to WinMo 6.5 from 6.1).
dawesdust_12
No longer welcome
Yeah, If you go Start -> Settings -> Today.. just de-tick the Samsung whatever that's ticked, and tick whatever today screen options you'd like. If you have the choice, I'd go with "Windows Default".. it's the new 6.5 style menu, and it's better than the old Today screen. Still has nothing on TouchFlo though IMO.

The phone you're getting, is it bought from a carrier, or direct? If it's direct, chances are it'll still have the needed dll's for ICS. I hope it does, as Tethering is sweet (Although I love HTC's WiFi Internet Sharing app, makes it stupidly easy).

http://forum.xda-developers.co ... p=4170499&postcount=1 -- That's the HTC app.. worth giving it a shot atleast to try.
dawesdust_12
No longer welcome
TiJay.. some carriers will not have tethering stuff in it (actually missing the ipnat.dll in the Windows directory)... Something you might be careful about. Flashing a custom ROM is best for adding the IPNat stuff, and HTC phones are the best supported for flashing.

Not to mention the HTC phones are pretty.

And that Omnia II.. that home screen actually looks to have made WinMo worse...
TiJay
S2 licensed
Right, I'm getting an Omnia II The other phones on the list I made were all brilliant but too expensive and I'm not too convinced about the browsing or MSN Messenger capabilities of the N95...

And tethering is a vital feature for me so it seems WinMo is the best choice. Thanks for your suggestions
Jakg
S3 licensed
Why do you *need* root to use an Android phone? I rooted mine to make it faster / get tethering, but I wouldn't say you *need* it.

Plus (besides Flash) CyanogenMod has pretty much all the features I think I could ever need...
dawesdust_12
No longer welcome
Well, I look at it this way:

iPhone.. for me to switch to it, would cost me about 600$ to buy the phone (atleast on my network its HSPA+). Then there's the 70$ per month for my plan (and I get a deal on mine, rather than being nearly 90$). Plus the iPhone doesn't quite do what I want, nor can I develop small personal applications without paying 100$ per year for a dev licence. (or jailbreaking which when Apple releases an update with a cool new feature.. it all gets lost)

Android.. No 1 rom has every feature, you need like 3 different ROM's just to get a full feature set, and that's kinda.. retarded. Also, a consumer product should not require the learning of rooting and reflashing just to fix basic stuff. Not very user friendly, nor is it that pretty.

Windows Mobile, yeah it's old and ugly (although less ugly with WinMo 6.5), but it's reliable. I can do everything I want with my phone (including tethering over Wifi.. suck on that iPhone ), I can have every app under the sun running at once on my phone (althuogh I'd never do it), it runs stable as **** and if something is wrong, there's some program out there that corrects it. Although for the most part, WinMo is pretty intuitive. Plus has proper versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote (whatever the latter one is ). Word can open and edit any doc or docx files, Excel open and edit xls or xlsx, and Powerpoint can VIEW (and play) any pps/ppsx.

Yeah, I know.. me preferring something Windows.. but for all intensive purposes, WinMo does what I need it to do, without having stupid technical niggles, and without any bullshit. There's a reason why companies have relyed on it for ****ing forever.
Senninha25
S3 licensed
Quote from Gav190 :Looks like its measuring the aero forces on the front wing. Looks like some sort of newton meter.

other than that it looks like a tethering device which prevents the front wing from shaking and probably flexing. it's a flashback from the early 90's without that thing on top though.
tristancliffe
S3 licensed
Quote from Mazz4200 :Stuff

I charge my 3G either every night or every other night. I turn off push and automatic email checking, and I also turn off 3G - relying either on Edge or Wifi for my internet connection.

I use it a lot for emails, text messaging, browsing websites, listening to music/podcasts in my car, and games. Games seem to be the big killer of battery life.

I've not hit any data limits or been told that I'm getting close or being unfair.

When I go racing - generally leaving on a Friday afternoon and coming back Sunday night, the phone easily lasts the whole weekend, but I do tend to limit my usage of it. Plus I'm busy racing, working on the car, eating or sleeping, so don't have time to use it much.

Not tried tethering, so can't comment.

iSeismo is great (in a dull, geeky way), and I've try the sonar thingy. Much-o-fun.
Mazz4200
S2 licensed
Just bumping this thread to ask a few questions, and it saves me opening up a new topic.

So, the iphone battery life, is it really that bad ?, or have i just been unlucky and installed a load of apps that use power like it's going out of fashion ?. I haven't done any 'scientific' type tests or anything, but, i'm having to charge this thing twice a day. Is that normal ?
I have come from a PDA with a hugely chunky extended battery pack, so maybe i've been spoilt, but, this eee-phone thing does seem to need a hell of a lot of juice !. So much so, i've been looking at a couple of cases with an extended battery charger built in. I've been looking at these two http://www.logic3.com/details/?prod=615 and http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/iph ... g-leather-case-p18580.htm Anyone had any experience with these or something similar ?

Secondly, Data usage. Anyone hit the buffer of this "unlimited download/fair use" O2 tariff ?. I'll admit to being a touch paranoid here, but i'm kinda scared of running up a huge data bill, so i've been very very careful about my data consumption (always use my home wifi network when in the house, and i make sure i don't spend hours searching for porn on the web when sitting on the bus...err i mean, checking the LFS forums :shy Yet, my data usage seems to have added a few extra Mb's each time i turn the thing on...Is this normal ?
My guess is, so many of my apps asks "do you want to use your current location" I always say yes. So does that mean it's running off to the worldwideweb of lies to ask where i live every time i open up a programme ?

And thirdly, O2's internet tethering/add-on/nut and bolt thingy - thing. Anyone tried it ? Value for money ? Reasonable download speeds ? Reliable conection ? or a waste of time and a complete rip-off ?

Any help/advice would be good.

Anyway, to continue with the theme of this long forgotten thread, my apps :-

App Box Lite...............(Very very useful set of utilities all in one neat little package, it's free too, which always helps)
CallSaver and 0870......(Avoid paying for those costly 08 premium rate numbers that arn't included in your free minutes)
Google Mobile App.......(Internet search engine that you speak too, tell it what you want, and it simply finds it, works everytime, even if you have a northern accent)
Copilot Live 8..............(No Pink Floyd unfortunately, and it's not quite as polished as Tom Tom or Navigon 7, but, at 26 quid, you can't really grumble (it gets you to where you wanna go, eventually)
Around Me..................(I was surprised by the lack of built-in searchable POI's in google maps, so i installed this, and now i can easily and quickly search for things that i already know are there, (saves having to look out the window i guess))
Active Sonar...............(Learn how to become a bat, only without the wings and furry ears. No, really, go get it, you'll see exactly what i mean )
iSeismo......................(Learn how much of a thud you make walking into walls when your trying to be a bat)

Games; not really found many games that have been able to hold my attention longer than ten mins or so, although Monopoly, Pocket God, Labyrinth 3D and Paper Toss arn't so bad.
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Dajmin
Demo licensed
I wondered that myself. Scawen has said it's about the rendering, but I think there's more to it than that. I'm wondering if it's related to frcition or some physics relating to the road itself. So it can load a texture version of the track where the roads are inaccessible to lower the calculations the engine is doing. Because you can't get to those sections even in Shift+U mode, you're tethered to the current track - that tethering must have something to do with it.
Hankstar
S3 licensed
-1?

So you disagree with tethering tyres so they don't bounce onto the track and ruin other peoples' races? The OP wants to keep tyres, but keep them tied down or tied to a wall (as in RL) so they absorb impact but remain where they are and don't become a track hazard. I think this is a good suggestion which would both improve races and better reflect reality.

I'm unsure how having "randomness" such as tyres bouncing across the track during a race you're trying to win (or at least finish in one piece) is a good thing. This isn't Mario Kart!

I'm also unsure what is meant by "static track". If it means that barriers stay more or less where they are after impact, as opposed to covering the track with debris, then let's have more static.
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MAGGOT
S2 licensed
Quote from BurnOut69 :I just dont see the point of having them flying all around since that is something that wont happen in a real race track and could be avoided.

You obviously haven't heard of that WSC crash at Road Atlanta then

But yea, now-a-days they are tethered. +1 to tethering the tires (and real tire-walls where needed!)
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