You're not really doing a 100m sprint so top speed shouldn't really be affected, only overall stamina drain but that would be marginal considering these are SF guys and it's only 5 minutes.

Then in that case, I'll wear a vest no matter how fugly!

a longer stamina bar would be nice

Dude there are plenty of ET servers that host over 50 ppl that play smooth!

It not necessarily is the server, but some of the custom maps have issues and you can barely even move in some areas.

when i lag its cos:
1. im across the world
2. most tce servers are in USA or smth..

well, i guess that the lag is coming from me cause i dont tweak around my config files that much. if anyone can clear that up with me coz the guide doesnt help me that much. the new models give me a bad feeling of lag coming, big lag, very big lag.