1) Host your own games more often.
2) Turn on your slow connect mode in the game options.
3) "optimize your game"...meaning clear your cache, defrag your computer, dont run a bunch or "other programs" while playing the game, press Alt, Ctrl, Del...you should only have maybe 10 programs running in the background while playing the game. Get "Ad-Aware" it's a program that finds and deletes "spy ware". these spy-ware programs may be trying to send info back to "whom ever gave you the spy-ware" using the same port you connect to the game with.
4) And lastly...the uber super important one...read the
F.A.Q.
Edited By nosoul4evr on Mar. 11 2003 at 14:45