Here's what we do: Open up Explorer or Internet Explorer, and out of your email, there will be a line that looks like:

ftp://username:password@ip/

Copy and paste it into the location bar of Internet Explorer

Press enter, and you should see the folders in your FTP and stuff:


Now, go into where your server.cfg is at. Like for CS:S, it's in the cstrike/cfg directory:


Now, drag your server.cfg to your desktop:

And right-click, and click edit.


Now it'll come up with your preferred editor, generally notepad.

If you're going to open it up in wordpad, PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE IT AS A "Text Document". Not "Rich Text Format" or anything else. Anyway, just track down the part you want to edit, and fix it, save it and exit. :)

Now, we go ahead and drag the file back to the FTP

It wants to replace the file. Go ahead and click yes


All done! :)

Not really hard. Eventually, you won't have to do this. :)

OMFG! My server lags!! And the Vivid-Hosting engineer keeps telling me that it's a client issue. Ever check your rates? Well, if you have, you might not know the full story to rates and interp. What is "Rate"? Rate is the amount of data throughput that your client will allow to be sent to the server. Interp is totally different. Interp is short for interpolation, which pretty much means guessing. As your client sends data to the server, there may be a slight delay in the packet transfered to the server because of the latency of the internet. This is where interp comes in, it guesses where your client *player* is oriented within the game server to compensate for the latency. Values that are input into the interpolation system such as "ex_interp 0.01" means that YOU have a latency of 10 ms or LOWER!!!!!

Short:

Have a ping of 10 or less: ex_interp 0.01

Have a ping of 20 or less: ex_interp 0.02

Have a ping of 30 or less: ex_interp 0.03

Have a ping of 40 or less: ex_interp 0.04

Have a ping of 50 or less: ex_interp 0.05

Have a ping of 60 or less: ex_interp 0.06

Have a ping of 70 or less: ex_interp 0.07

Have a ping of 80 or less: ex_interp 0.08

Have a ping of 90 or less: ex_interp 0.09

Have a ping of 100 or less: ex_interp 0.1