Help - I Just Got Adsl My Ping Is Worse Than 56k

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old.ogbilly

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GAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Please someone help!!!
Ive just moved to Cyprus from Germany, in Germany I had ISDn and was getting pings of 100 ish on most games on all european servers.
Since i've arrived in Cyprus and got ADSL my pings are rediculous, ranging from 350 - 800. WTF is going on??? :(
Im connecting at 640,000 and my downloads are terrific at abou 70-80k a second but i cant play games.
Grrrrrrr

a little about my system:

Athlon 900
256@133 RAM
30Gb HD
Geforce2 MX 64Mb
SB Live Value
19" Monitor
Alcatec Speed Touch USB ADSL Modem

Please, Please, Please Someone help me, I've called out Cyprus Technicians from my ISP on numerous occasions but 2 b honest there knowledge is grim. :(

If I cant play games online then I may as well commit hari kiri cause the rest is arse 8)

P.S. if i dont get it sorted soon the missus is gonna kick my arse as well :uhoh:
 
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Embattle

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Er if you are trying to play games on BW then its likely that its the distance and number of hops etc that causes the ping to be so high.

If you pm me your ip address I'll ping you to see what results I get.
 
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old.Reverend Flatus

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Yes, what he said.
Have you tried doing a traceroute? This will show you the number of hops and the latency of each.
 
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old.ogbilly

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ive tried all diff servers, even the ones in Cyprus im getting 500 ping
I think it must b something to do with my set up
but then im not sure because i download fine at 70-80 k per sec.

Id expect a ping of about 30 with adsl to a server located about 40 miles from me :(

2 tell you the truth id be happy with a 200 ping at the moment as i cant play anything grrrrr
 
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old.ogbilly

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how do i perform a traceroute please?

sorry im good at playing but not great with the internet
:(
 
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Embattle

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Downloading isn't the same as games playing since one is more to do with bandwidth(DLing) and the other is more to do with Latancy(Gaming/Ping).
 
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old.Reverend Flatus

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Ping and download speed are different things. As I said, do a traceroute, this will show where the bottleneck is.
In your start menu choose run and type tracert followed by the destination address.
 
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Embattle

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in a DOS window type:

tracert ********* <--- replace * with the ip/url you want to traceroute to.
 
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old.Reverend Flatus

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Doh! We're cross-posting here Embattle!
 
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Will

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You both started with good intentions, but look at you now.:p
 
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old.ogbilly

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ive tried the traceroute now and all seems fine till i hit the 3rd hop then they all go consistently worse

how do i find my ip then i can let u have it to ping me?
 
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old.ogbilly

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sorry bout posting in different threads, wasnt sure which 1 to use, never posted anything b4
10.12.8.207
 
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Embattle

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Destination unreachable happens at 10.87.0.1 so perhaps Rev can try and see if he gets the same.
 
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Embattle

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Send that tracert to your ISP and maybe they can find out whats happening at the hop with the high ping.
 
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old.Reverend Flatus

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That is a class A address reserved for private lan connectivity surely?
You behind a firewall? You need to find the address of your gateway and supply that address, ipconfig should show the gateway.
 
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old.ogbilly

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i have no firewall installed, this is excactly what it says when i type ipconfig

ip address........................10.12.8.207
subnet mask....................255.0.0.0
defaul gateway................10.12.8.207
 
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old.Reverend Flatus

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Hmmm!
Ok, well do a traceroute and post it here.
 
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old.ogbilly

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tracing route to ns2 [217.27.32.197]
over a max of 30 hops

1 65ms 54ms 61ms 10.12.0.1
2 96ms 58ms 59ms 192.168.0.9
3 231ms 240ms 236ms 195.14.128.42
4 238ms 240ms 233ms li-0-li.cytanet.net [195.14.129.69]
5 241ms 240ms 241ms 195.14.195.205
6 399ms 395ms 378ms ns2 [217.27.32.197]

this is a counterstrike server about 40 miles away from me 8(
dont know if u need the port for it but its 27015
 
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Will

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I'm no expert, but it looks like there is a problem with your home network. 192.168.0.9 will be internal, and that's a slow ping.
 
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old.ignus

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I find that the best way to fix something thats broken is to find the biggest hammer and use it against the offending object. Usually works with big heavy machinery (no really it does) but for some unknown reason tends to make electronic goods worse.
 
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