btw, the sound does not lag.. (it does when there's lots of different ones etc)
but a background tune won't the only proble is that the people will have to wait for a long time to conect to the server, because they have to download the .wav...
most maps have textures streched without problems, sometimes this decreases r_speeds, and usually, if you just scale to 1 they come out misaligned all over
Fresh download does, and the code is php, and i've had no trouble uploading my maps, so it must be something with your isp aswell as the overall crappyness of a 56k modem