Custom Rates

I have recently been messin with mai rates... right now i am at 66,66,20000 and noticed that i get a lot more choke than i got with mai default rates u guys know why!

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try setting your rate to 30000 and see if that helps thats what I have it set to and most of the time I get no choke

aight.. also if someone could explain to me wtf rates do like all ive noticed is choke and lifts being retarded. does it help with hit reg? plz explain to EL NooB

RATE is a cap which limits how fast you can download data from the server and 30000 is about 30KB/second. Try this guide for more info.
http://www.jason35.com/Netcode.htm

If choke is excessive try lowering update rate until it goes away.

Lowering update? Surely raising the rate is more effective. Unless you have piss poor internet speeds you should be on 66 66 66000 in a 66 tick server. Now been using these rates for 2 months, and i get 0 choke 100% of the time. I also have perfect hit reg nearly always. Sometimes i have problems hitting german players in a german server, but thats about it.

Yes, of course you should raise your rate to reflect how much your connection can handle. On the majority of servers out there, however, you will be confined to a low sv_maxrate. Usually something like 30000, in which case this is the reason for your choke.

There is no connection between RATE and tickrate I see lots of players say they use RATE 66000 which is fine but it can be higher if you connection can handle it, however you will probably only need it higher if on a killbox server with 16 players.

keefy wrote:There is no connection between RATE and tickrate I see lots of players say they use RATE 66000 which is fine but it can be higher if you connection can handle it, however you will probably only need it higher if on a killbox server with 16 players.

As cynips said the majority of servers have their servers set at default which limits max rate to 30000. On those servers even if you set your rate at 66000 its only going to pull 30000. With todays bandwidths server owners should really set max rate to 100000 so people can enjoy the higher rates.