Thanks for the replys!
I will cut down the processes, and update the soundcard driver... but it still doesn't explain the slow download in the ingame updater.
for example - right now i wanted to go online, theres an arena with over 300 people in it, but i have to update the terrain which is smpizza.res, as indicated on the updater... i checked on the website and the most recent terrain of smpizza is of last year, therefore i cannot download it any other way! right now the download is bearly moving... i mean its only 2.1MBs! i normally download that in a few seconds.
It most be something with router/port forwarding maybe even certificates... is there maybe a way to use a proxy that will fix this?
The PingPlotter print out would be helpful....
but out of curiosity, do you posibly have any P2P rograms installed on your PC< or do you do any movie, TV Shows, Music, Videos, Youtube videos...etc.. downloads from the net...... or use anything like Azurez, Utorrent, BitTorrent, LimeWare programs etc..... at any time with your PC you play AcesHigh on???
if so, this could be the reason you are experiencing slow update downloads, new map update downloads, etc.... it might be possible that if you use any type of these programs that they are using up your bandwidth without your knowledge, like being automatically started when you bootup / into Windows.....
just some thoughts...