High ping

[yorkiechan]

can anyone help? I play MOHAA(Spearhead) on line.Until recently it has been fine and I have had a ping rate of around 50.
For the last few days from 5pm onwards my ping as shot over 200 which is naffin me off seeing that quite a few severs boot you off for being that high.I have also noticed that the ping list in the MOHAA browser server panel has also risen.
please somebody help so I can get back to gaming heaven.


p.s the ping rate comes back down through the day time

 

[Testin da Cable]

the MOH/Spearhead furum is here.

perhaps you could also post such things as your connection type, ISP and things llike traceroute output. it will help diagnosing your problems.

 

[Lester]

This thread sux.

 

[Tenko]

This thread r0xx0rz!!!!!!!!!111

 

[yorkiechan]

Sorry guys,should have give you a bit more info....I'm on broadband with virgin using a Alcatel usb modem(the squashed frog one).I haven't done a tracerout yet as ive never done one before. do you need to know anything else.....

 

[bigfoot]

If you are experiencing high pings of an evening only that would suggest to me some form of saturation on your DSL network or the network of the servers where you play. If it is on BW servers then I doubt it is the latter so I would go complaining to your ISP.

 

[Testin da Cable]

fairly positive you're running windows, so to do a 'traceroute' perform the following:

start>run>cmd <enter>
-a "dos box" will open
type tracert a.b.c.d <enter>
where "a.b.c.d" is the IPnumber of the MoH server you are going to test.
the output looks like this:

Tracing route to server.somewhere.com [10.0.0.2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2    22 ms    23 ms    24 ms  10.0.0.2

what you need to look for are hops (the numbers denote "hops" with a high ping time, or timeouts (a * is a timeout). machines with excessive pingtimes or timeouts usually are problematic places on the internet. you can also ping the MoH servers you are going to connect to to see if there is any 'packet loss'. "PL" as it's known is another indication of network problems or heavily loaded machines.

 

[yorkiechan]

Yup im running windows xp pro,

amd athlon xp2100+
512mb pc2700 ddr
soundblaster live 1024
geforce 4 4200 ti
40gb hard drive

you probably diden't need that much info but what the hell...thanx for the advice im off to do a traceroute and see what it comes up with...

 

[stu]

Your connection type and hardware are slightly more important to fixing this problem than your sound card...

 

[yorkiechan]

just a thought !! Is it worth using ping plotter?

 

[stu]

Any trace program that you can easily cut & paste the results of is fine

 

[yorkiechan]

I did the tracert and it came back with 8 hops ranging around 180ms.does this info help

 

[Embattle]

You need to copy the tracert and paste it here please

 

[Lester]

I like your avatar! Is it from a film?

 

[yorkiechan]

I have saved the graph to my files... I don't think it will allow me to copy and paste but I should be able to e-mail the graph..any takers

 

[~YuckFou~]

Originally posted by Lester
I like your avatar! Is it from a film?

 

[plightstar]

Originally posted by yorkiechan
Yup im running windows xp pro,

amd athlon xp2100+
512mb pc2700 ddr
soundblaster live 1024
geforce 4 4200 ti
40gb hard drive

you probably diden't need that much info but what the hell...thanx for the advice im off to do a traceroute and see what it comes up with...

How much that cost u?

getting Same but with 2200 Xp with 15" LCD screen for £800

oh and £8 p&p

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by yorkiechan
I have saved the graph to my files... I don't think it will allow me to copy and paste but I should be able to e-mail the graph..any takers

sorry to be a pain but if you've just pasted the tracert output this would have been done about 5 posts ago. sorry, I'm ill :/

 

[yorkiechan]

yeah your right but in new to this forum lark and my pc knowledge could do with a little improvement.....other than that life is good.now would you like me to e-mail u the graph

 

[Summo]

Dime? :/

 

[Testin da Cable]

you see, I'm torn between giving you a fish and teaching you how to fish. I may have a fever on top of this damn cold :/

email it, post it (or a link to it) go ahead. tea is sustaining me atm so I'll have a wee look



edit: yeh, had crossed my mind summo

 

[theriven]

look m8 the best way to get an answer is ....


1) do that tracert thingy.

2) highlight it, then right click, you will see a popup click COPY.
or just press the alt key and c key at the same time.

3) post a reply on this thread

4) when you have navigated the name and password bit, press alt and v at the same time.

5) ohhhhhhhhhhh its like magik!!!! look what i did !!!!
the tracert has just come up on here

6) say ohh cheers blokes if only i knew where to post this question i woulda been far better off, and sufferd far less sarcasm!

7) get told that bigfoot told you the answer ages ago

8) suffer for five years while learning the copy paste thing (its harder than it looks tbh)

 

[yorkiechan]

forget it,I realise that I am not going to find an easy answer to what I thought was a small problem..I'll just have another scream at my ISP but thanks for your help anyway guys.

 

[old.Fweddy]

Originally posted by theriven
just press the alt key and c key at the same time.

I've been using ctrl instead of alt. Will that make a difference?

 

[theriven]

naa im pissed cos ive just left me wife

alt is easyer then Ctrl to type though

do you think it would make any diff to him though????

 

[Summo]

I got stuck at the wife bit.

 

[Testin da Cable]

jeebus!

 

[yorkiechan]

Listen guys I know you're trying to help but the damn thing will not copy and paste onto this forum for some strange reason,otherwise I would have done that ages ago.
So i've given up on the whole thing and am about to tell virgin to shove the service where the sun don't shine.

 

[Ulysses777]

Yorkiechan, there's just one part you've missed out that everyone here has missed too.

To copy & paste from a DOS box under XP, you must first right-click in the box and click on Mark. Then you'll be able to copy & paste it.

 

[Testin da Cable]

or you could click the ickle icon at the top left of the 'box and go to the 'edit' options...like on all the 'doze versions back to the time of the dinosaurs...


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