help needed!!! Quake 3 server problems

[fingermouse]

Hi, i am from the uk using a T1 cable modem, my bro is in scotland 300 miles away give or take using speed touch dsl 1 meg, i cant find this guy on any of the servers. when talking on the phone we've found that our server listings are different, i can never connect to his game, even when im trying to connect using the server ip address.
How come i can play someone from france but not a few hundred miles away?
Does it have something to do with the internet connection?
or......?
well i was hoping someone would answer that
Thankyou for any help

[PieceMaker]

Are you both using the same version of Q3?

To check start Q3 then bring down the console and it shows the
version of Q3 in the lower right corner.

[Nintendo Nerd]

what piecemaker said..i had that problem i found out the other person had somthing wrong with his quake. gl with your problem