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Hi,

When I am sweating someone there is always an awful delay in the action getting to my screen. Its so bad that we usually just go the old fashioned method of the other player calling out the hands - obviously that disrupts the flow of the conversation big time
I have tried closing all other programs except Skype and the sharing program but it makes little difference.
I have also tried setting the sharing program to high priority.
(Its fine when someone sweats me for some reason)

So far I have tried three programs
- Teamviewer
- Sharedview
- Mikogo

All with the same problem.

My PC Spec
Intel Core2 Quad CPU
Q6600 @ 2.4G
2GB RAM
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 2002 Service Pack 2

Tested Broadband Download Speed = 485kbps
Tested Broadband Upload Speed = 240kbps


Can anybody give any tips?

Never used any of these products but presumably when you are being sweated most of the processing is done on your PC and when you are sweating most of the processing is being done on the other PC, right? So maybe it's the other guy's PC that's not up to scratch if it's fine when you are sweated?

Not sure that's the problem since its the same no matter who I sweat.

Hi Paddy,

It's your connection. Now, I have fast internet but just to show you what the difference is:
http://joetall.com/blog/?p=242

What you do need to do is eliminate all programs that use the internet when you sweat so you can maximize your connection.

-Joe

Yeah, my interwebs sucks. Need to open a can of energy drink and get on the case of my ISP - its supposed to be 8Mb.

I use eircom broadband and have never had a problem with sweating (wicklow)

open up command prompt and type
ping google.com
tell us the results.

are you in the uk
who is your isp