Ferret Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Hey guys, I play on your Cod2 servers, looking for some advice on a very recent ping increase problem. For the last couple years, I have usually pinged betwween 40-80 (max) on your Cod2 servers. Consistently. Within the last week or so, my ping (not only your servers, but ALL other servers as well) has doubled to tripled (150+) and makes it nearly un-playable. Asking in-game, no one else has apparently experienced this. I did "Google" it, but I'm not exactly a techie, and the 100,000+ hits were a admittedly a bit confusing... and hoped one of you smarter-than-me types, could give me a little direction as to how to figure out what has caused my ping to jump. I'm DYING to get back to cracking skulls on your servers, but it's not as enjoyable (playable) at high ping. BTW, on my old favorite server (yes, XI is the new one) we asked people over 150 ping to leave, as it caused lag spikes for everyone else...... generally, what is the max ping you want on your servers, in case this isn't easily fixable? Suggestions/ recommendations? Again, this has just happened very recently, and I have added no hardware/software & made no significant changes at all. I run Norton 360 Premium, and nothing is showing as added to registry in the last few months. Just one day for no apparent reason, my favorite gaming/stress relief outlet became unplayable < HELP!!! Don't make me run around my house, stalking the dog, going "pew, pew, pew" for lack of gaming relief..... the wife's idiot cat, on the other hand, deserves it. Ferret The weezil of war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimus Prime Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 645 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 19 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 710 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 312 Achievement Points: 4328 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 25 Birthday: 04/19/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted December 27, 2010 Hey Ferret, Have you tried resetting your router and Cable modem??? If not,, disconnect them form the power source and leave them off for at least ten seconds.... plug the modem in first .... then the router..... wait to let them reconnect to service and then try gaming again. You could also try shutting off your virus program.... I run my computer with no virus checking. When I get a virus, adaware or malware I download any number of free programs, Install and clean, then uninstall and I am good to go. It is worth a try. Someone else might have some other ideas. I had my ping go from a consistent 80, up to 95 and 100. I feel for you.... it completely changes the game for me. Artimus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.28 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted December 27, 2010 I was getting the same problem in the 4 days running up to Christmas, only this was on cod4, at certain times of the day my ping would shoot up to around 600, it's usually between 110 and 140 depending on which server i am playing, i thought it was possibly my internet provider doing some work, ain't played much in the last 2 days but when i did my ping seemed fine....fingers crossed. If we asked people to leave our servers whose ping was above 150 we would be looking at a lot of nearly empty servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingLo Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Share Posted December 27, 2010 The only good ping is one that is Lo.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 503 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 181 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2461 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 1213 Achievement Points: 15555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Device: Windows Share Posted December 27, 2010 If you have cable maybe the whole town was home for the holiday and they're hogging bandwidth ? Like Artimus said, reset the modem and router - sometimes that helps. Are the down/upload speeds normal? If not just call you ISP and have them look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
simplemod Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Share Posted December 27, 2010 I've had some issues with mine for the last week as well. It seems as though it is on the ISP side is the culprit, as my download should be 10Mbps, and my up should be 1Mbps, all week, I have averaged less than 4Mbps down, and less than 1 up. noticed on nights my ping would spike that I was only getting about 1.5 down, and about 200k up. I have tech coming tuesday to check my modem, and drop line. I'm on a cable package, TV/Internet/Phone, so the modem gets a workout, I hope that it's just time for a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted December 27, 2010 Don't know who you ISP is, but mine is Comcast. I called them and had them send a "refresh" signal to the cable modem (after I had done a power off reset). That seems to help. In fact, they now have it as an option in the auto-phone system so you don't have to wait for Sandeep in Bombay to answer the call pretending he is in Michigan. The other thing I found (and Laszlo too) was an issue with windows 7. Maybe a machine that is not quote up to the task, but when we downgraded back to XP all my ping issues went away. In 7 it would spike over 500 sometimes (on the edge of maps and real intense maps like the pistol one). Now it is steady at around 35-38, with an occasional spike to 45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WHITEBOY Posted December 27, 2010 Member ID: 171 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 51 Topic Count: 65 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1487 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 443 Achievement Points: 8690 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 28, 2018 Birthday: 05/05/1970 Share Posted December 27, 2010 NickTheGrip Now it is steady at around 35-38, with an occasional spike to 45 That must be the ONLY time I get to put a kill on ya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PimpedOutPete Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 174 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 129 Topic Count: 387 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 14890 Content Per Day: 2.77 Reputation: 7830 Achievement Points: 91117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 52 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 04/23/1970 Device: iPhone Share Posted December 28, 2010 I love to answer u guy but I have been drunk for 3 days straight! Lol... Get back to me in a week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blackbart Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Download a free trace route program and ping the server...It will show where the problem is in the route... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
ChknFngr Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted December 28, 2010 start menu / acessories / command prompt type : tracert ip_of_the_server_here when hes done doing his thing, select all press enter and paste here u should see where the high is occuring like this or just call your isp and ask them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Darth Yoda Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Check for peer2peer downloads, a/v updates and any background programs especially if you've installed a new program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemps Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 1482 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 37 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2018 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 15303 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 15 Birthday: 07/13/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted December 28, 2010 internet been slow here in the mid west(chicago area here) for a couple weeks since the comcast DNS servers went down here, and things just seem slow, take forever for the XI site to load up, and get lag spikes i never had before in games , and surfing the web been very slow, hoping they are just waiting to take care of it after the holidays. maybe it the same problems youre having? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
SCooBY>XI< Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 3233 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 15 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 334 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 40 Achievement Points: 2030 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/23/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 28, 2013 Birthday: 04/09/1967 Share Posted December 28, 2010 alot of things can effect ping and with windows 7 's innate security layers it can get really tough and aggravating when you first switch all your machines to the operating system to figure it out --it really annoyed me that now I have to learn port config and forwarding for not only my firewalls but my router again but is the price we pay to play --- all in all the operating system does alot of things better and more efficiently then the previous versions . If you do not use a bigfoot network card that prioritizes your game info /traffic automatically some port configuration may be in order--- each game out today often has this info on there forum pages as many run into this problem as the game traffic is not getting through the window's firewall or your router properly (had a headache with dragon age origins ultimate and Battlefield Bad company until I learned how to set up the ports necessary to allow the games to run on windows7 x64 ) As many have stated in this post , do a trace route on your current ip ---many isp's have this on there tools page for free (mine does ) or you can goto www.pcpitstop.com and use there free utility to find out if your problem may lie with you or your isp and then go from there. SCooBY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 NickTheGrip so you don't have to wait for Sandeep in Bombay to answer the call pretending he is in Michigan. Lol, roger that. I powered down & reset everything, experimented with having anti-virus on/off, ran a couple diagnostics my brother sent me, and ran a tracert only to find the jumps were double what they should be, across the board. Still pinging in hundreds. If I Jones out & come in to play anyway, just let me know if I'm causing spikes & I'll drop out immediately. Gonna document & send request to ISP (Knology, which until this, has actually been very good) Thanks for the advice on ping, guys... truly appreciated. Us non-techies really appreciate what help we can get.... My brother got me a Radeon 5750 for Xmas . Wow, seems like a REALLY good card so far. I might re-load COD4 & look at Black Ops. Anywho, sincere thanks for all your help, & hope to bash all yer friggin' craniums very soon..... {my way if saying "thanks" } Ferret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted December 28, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted December 28, 2010 One thing, make sure your 5750 card is not causing the problem. If your power supply is a little borderline it could cause some issues. Try putting your old card in to see if the problem "goes away" If it does, post here and one the techies can help you look deeper into that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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