LPB issues on servers?

[old.-=MN=-Terra]

Hmm, I am on a cable modem and normally get a ping of 30 on your servers, however today for a praccy session I got a ping of 450.

So reverted back to my old 56k and got a ping of 150. So the server was ok...but it wasnt with my cable modem?

It wasnt the modem that had the fault either, because I logged into other servers (Gamesinferno,Jolt etc) and I got my ping of 30.

Anything similar happened to anyone else? Or are Barrysworld capping their servers so lpb's like myself can't play

 

[old.Davehart]

Please tell me how you got a 150 ping on a modem because my lowest is in the mid 350's.

 

[kryt]

Well, the problem lies within the routing from your Cable Modem Supplier (probably NTL) to Linx, a UK internet backbone where Barrysworld is situated. I'm not to up on what exactly happens, but that should clear you up some. For a better explanation, pop into #barrysworld on quakenet irc and ask for Utumno or }data{, the networking guys

 

[old.Anatoly]

If you do a tracert to the BW server, and then one to another server, you will be able to see where the problem is (at least which node is the problem) it may have been a problem with the NTL to Linx.
If you do it when you can ping well to BW, and then again when you can't (cut and paste from dos box to save it) you should be able to compare and see if there is a problem, maybe a router is down and a different route needs to be taken.
Or seeing as you are on a cable modem maybe someone else on the same circuit is d'ling some porn.

Daveheart, there is a new article on lowering your ping in CS at http://maniac.reload-software.com/entered_pings.htm this will also work for other HL based games too.

350 really is stupidly high, mine is below 200 'out of the box' I'm going to try out the tips above and see how low it will go.
The above guide explains everything, even recommends UK isp's (I use Clara)

 

[old.sjp]

my pings have gone to shite as well (isdn here), so ive stuck a post on the Network forum -

http://forums.barrysworld.com/showthread.php?threadid=6131

lets see if some techy can help out

 

[old.Davehart]

Terra,

Thanks for your e-mail but I would prefer you just send me a link to whatever it was you sent me that was 10MB plus in size, thank fuck for webmail or I would have been ages getting that bastard from the mail server.

Learn m8, send links not the whole fucking program