Strange ping problems

[Sugarplumhippo]

Having suffered from awful lag and regular LDs for the last two weeks I decided to see where the problem was. But I can't find anything wrong with my connection - I have a ping tracer graph program in the background and the ping never gets worse than 40ms. Last time I went LD I had an average ping of 24ms.

My connection is going through a company firewall (no idea what) but before two weeks ago I had a perfect connection (and nothing significant has happened in the last two weeks)

Any idea what causing the trouble? Why it only affects the DAoC packets and not the ping packets?

Thanks,

 

[Pixie.Pebr]

Have no idea....
Your boss dislike you and reconfigured the firewall?

*wraps thread up in christmasy christmasgift giftwrap and carries it to the techy forum*

 

[lakih]

If you are useing BBB (BredBandsBolaget) as ISP you might want to sheck out This thread.
Otherwise i cant help you

 

[stu]

Originally posted by Sugarplumhippo
Any idea what causing the trouble? Why it only affects the DAoC packets and not the ping packets?

Because they use a different port and protocol, probably?

 

[cantho]

...

Ping uses ICMP packets, which might be allowed because your networkadmin likes to troubleshoot remote users or so. Imho,
allow ICMP in and/or out is bad idea.

However, they will have looked into FW logs and saw that you play instead of working ... *BUSTED*

 

[bishibosh]

I have been getting evil lag from home for the last few weeks, not firewalled. Go on, red dot for about 5-10 mins, then LD. It sometimes works normally the second time i log in for some reason

 

[Sugarplumhippo]

Ok, thanks guys. I'll just have to restrict my playing to when I'm at home