You're over thinking it, it's just a straight forward http stream that changes depending on your bandwidth. You can use adblock or some other browser addon that catches http links or url snooper/wireshark if you like it that way.
edit: lemme check the onboards, if I ever get on the alms site that is...
cat5 cables can do gbit speeds no problem, you can save a bit of money on that end (running 20m cat5 cables through half of the flat here and getting the full gbit on the network). Unless you plan to future prove and go for a 10gbit network any time soon.
Your licence file should be in \Documents\Assetto Corsa\Lic double check if you got read/write access and maybe back it up to a different place to manually restore it?
Talking about twitter, some people really got nothing better to do. First of all what is iRacing even doing on steam, I don't quite get that and secondly who is fanboy enough to vote NO on another simracing title on steam.
You may want to try turning off hdr/motionblur and going down with the cube settings, I think I'm on 1 faces and can't remember the other value. But that helped a lot with my steering lag.
edit: FoV in cfg file Documents/Assetto Corsa/cfg/camera_onboard.ini
The UI should be completely in HTML so you can do whatever you want with it, skin it differently, change the layout and so fort. Not sure if it's the case for the tech demo too though.
Why are we still discussing this anyway, it is confirmed that the tech preview got out early to some game reviewers today, bose mentioned doing game reviews every now and then on the lfsforum so why shouldn't he be on the mailing list?
It looks like game journalists on their mailing list got the chance to test it a little earlier, if you check twitter he is just talking to some Italian dude having problems starting it.
But it very much looks like we "normal" people should be getting it today too.
edit: btw, netkar is on sale for people wanting to check out the tech preview. You can get it for 5 Euro until the end of February http://www.netkar-pro.com/main/
I usually manage to break the wheel and shifter at roughly the same time so it wasn't a problem until now. Wheel is still holding up somewhat but the shifter has an annoying problem with 5th gear, was driving me mad in and before the 24h race so I had to get a new one.
I do agree on the "this is his server and he can do whatever the hell he wants with it" but still it is a problematic decision in a time where there isn't 6 other full servers to choose from in the masterlist. If you get banned/blocked/whatever from cargame servers you're pretty much screwed when it comes to public racing, that isn't cargames fault of course but the situation should be taken into consideration when applying such drastic measures.
edit: Just to add some more on the ping statement, yes pings can be high from people further away but that doesn't mean that you'll get more crashes because of them, it could probably even be the other way around if you see somebody with a ping of 150ms you naturally drive a little more careful around him, at least I would like to think you do. Just check the countless endurance events/leagues with people racing from all over the world, if your connection is stable and you got no package loss it is easily possible to race close with a ping exceeding 200ms.
just exchange "plyrs=5" with whatever finishing position you had -1, so in this example it is ixion who was 6th, if your team would've been 10th it would be plyrs=9. It still reaches max execution on some teams, but most of them work.
Also you may want to tell Mr. Taskinen to shift down more carefully at ixion.
I do think it is only fair for supporters to get first pick, there will be a demo for everybody too just a little later. That aside netkar really is a steal, the hillclimb alone is worth the 15 euro you pay for digital download (7 euro for boxed version plus shipping)
Ye I just watched that, was furious when it happened but it was just an unlucky chain reaction nothing you could've done. Bummer on my end of course, had the perfect start until then.