I've got a good cable connection, and I tend to have pretty decent ping.

9999 9999 9999 9999 10

Don't toy with me...

they're different for everyone

//net variables
rate 20000 //max of HL engine
cl_rate 20000
ex_interp 0.06 //I find (ie my opinion) .06 is the best for hit reg for marines. 0.0 for aliens
ex_extrapmax 1.2 //default
cl_updaterate 45 //about half of your FPS. too high and it will cause issues in heavy combat areas, overflow you pipe.
cl_cmdrate 87 //approx +2 of your average fps, anymore and it is just a waist of packets. The less clutter/spam the better.

thats my opinion.

http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/s...li=&p_topview=1

The script provided there works fine for me.

Thanks guys.

Emanon is probably as knowledgeable regarding rates as anyone I know of. Listen to him. Intently.

Yes I must say the way they have rates on there is retarded, here’s a story that some of you who have reinstalled steam for whatever reason know about.

I was reformatting my computer for the first time in 2 years, having steam downloaded for so long I forgot all the things I had setup and changed to give me maximum ping. I reinstalled steam and tried to run natural selection, and my ping was around 2000 (I couldn’t not talk to people to ask what was wrong, nor could I hear them. I had no idea what was wrong, because I had forgotten that I tweaked a load of my settings to get my ping at high setup. Finally after about a month I had figured that my steam settings were set to 56k or whatever. I really think that it is retarded having the settings to where just selecting your settings has so much change on the game. I think it should automatically pickup your settings. Anyways this is really something for the steam forums.

That Netgraph Explanation linked on the steam page is awesome. Read it. Proper knowledge of what the netgraph is displaying can help you find any problem with your net settings.

When I try to set my cl_rate it says
max = 0 min = 0.

Why is this and what can I do about it?

Use 30 30 7500 like cool people.

Rawr moderation.

You can try doing a search of the scripting forum for rate information. You know, the search button on the top of every forum page?

cl_rate is not locked.

cl_cmdrate 101
cl_updaterate 60
ex_interp 0.033
ex_extrapmax 3
rate 20000

These work incredibly nice for me. And...
cl_smoothtime 0
cl_smooth 0

I didn't understand that article at all...

What would be a reasonable value for cl_rate, 15000?

9999

i believe cl_rate is supposed to match your rate

I use cl_cmdrate 86, cl_updaterate 40 rate 20000 ex_interp 0.055 sys_ticrate 120 and cl_utch 1