Strange high ping.

[senex]

Basically my problem is that I get a rather high ping on the Barrysworld CS servers. I dont really play any other games, therefore I cant speak for my pings on them.
I'm on ISDN, 64k. On a *cough* Jolt *cough* server my ping averages at around 70ms, where as on BW servers I'm hitting the high nineties, and actually averaging at about 102ms.

I know the problems relatively petty, and its only a few miliseconds but I was just wondering if anything could be done to fix the problem.

I'm on AOL, yet as I said, its only BW that I have this ping problem with.

 

[WPKenny]

Post a traceroute.

Open up a MS-DOS Prompt and type:

tracert XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Where XXX is the IP of the server you're getting bad pings on. That'll give us some clues if there's probs that we can fix.

 

[Embattle]

WPKenny you bastid got there before me

 

[senex]

C:\>tracert 213.221.175.97

Tracing route to svr04.barryserver.com [213.221.175.97]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 125 ms 47 ms 46 ms rt-loh02a.proxy.aol.com [195.93.32.231]
2 172 ms 46 ms 47 ms supportl2-loh-G1-0.proxy.aol.com
[195.93.32.252]
3 31 ms 141 ms 140 ms accessl2-loh-P2-0.router.aol.com
[195.93.36.53]
4 31 ms 47 ms 78 ms pop5-loh-P3-0.atdn.net [66.185.146.85]
5 31 ms 47 ms 47 ms bb1-loh-P0-3.atdn.net [66.185.146.80]
6 156 ms 188 ms 94 ms bb2-frr-P2-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.143]
7 188 ms 47 ms 62 ms pop3-frr-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.139.38]
8 94 ms 78 ms 93 ms Tiscali.atdn.net [66.185.147.102]
9 78 ms 63 ms 156 ms so-2-0-0.lon12.ip.tiscali.net
[213.200.81.149]
10 * 63 ms 78 ms ge1-1.he1.uk.as21099.net [213.221.179.114]
11 187 ms 78 ms 94 ms svr04.barryserver.com [213.221.175.97]

Trace complete.

 

[Embattle]

It looks more like the route you take to get to BW than BW itself.

 

[senex]

Aye, its odd.
I was playing on another jolt earlier and my ping settled at about 70, yet on the same session my ping was 110 on BW.

 

[senex]

Ok, well a little update on the problem...

I've just tried using the bw servers with a different ISP, and the latency drop is immediately felt. Therefore its pretty safe to conclude that this is solely an AOL>BW problem.

This does leave the question of the problem being fixed at all open though. All those people sitting out there saying "Pft, aol, well he's a lamer", or something along those lines, think again.
AOL are actually relatively fast for me in most instances, its just this one set of servers which I have, and have always have slight lag problems with.

ERK.

 

[kameleon]

Try using a different AOL dialup number and see if that makes a difference