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My ping sucks? Help?
TwistedJester
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I used to play a couple of FPS online and never really had any problems with pings. However I moved into an apartment two months ago, and I don't think I've played anything online other than City of Heroes/Villains since moving in. Today I decided to try playing a BF1942 mod, and I found that I was getting a ping of 400 from my usual server, when I normally had pings averaging 50. I figured it was a fluke and joined, and for a while, my ping was around 40, but then it shot back up to 400 a minute or so later and I was promptly kicked.
I figured it was a problem with their server, but then I checked some BF2 servers, and the pings were also horrible. Then I checked TF2, and again, lowest ping was near 300.
So can anyone help me figure out just what the hell happened to make my ping suck so badly? I still have Comcast, which is what I had before. The only thing I can really think of is that I have a different router now, and I screwed around with some windows settings because I got into torrenting.
I figured it was a problem with their server, but then I checked some BF2 servers, and the pings were also horrible. Then I checked TF2, and again, lowest ping was near 300.
So can anyone help me figure out just what the hell happened to make my ping suck so badly? I still have Comcast, which is what I had before. The only thing I can really think of is that I have a different router now, and I screwed around with some windows settings because I got into torrenting.
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This could be part of the problem. Are you on wireless? If it isn't secure, other people can leech off your internet and screw with bandwidth.
Need more input please.
Would posting a traceroute help at all?
If this statement is true, then someone in your apartment is definitely leeching off your internet.
Read up online how to change the MAC address, so that only your computer can access it.
It can be WPA encrypted and still tapped into quite easily.
If that doesn't work, then your wireless is messed up.
Check to see if your phones are running at the same Gigahertz.
Sometimes microwaves can interfere as well.
I never got it fixed. I did, however, spill water on the router last month and was forced to upgrade to a superior router, and I haven't had the problem since. It was something that just happened for seemingly no reason whatsoever.
Networking is a black magic art. Actually, it isn't an art; it really doesn't make much sense sometimes.
Is there a way you can try changing routers to see if your pings stabilize? That being said, it looks like you do have someone leeching, so try the MAC address solution before troubleshooting your router.
And my wireless has been completely turned off ever since I last said I turned it off. Even before that though I had been using a WPA key of the maximum length.
Would just connecting my computer directly to the modem perhaps let me know if the router is at fault? Would that even be sane to do?
That's pretty much the first thing I would tell you to do.
/comcast tech support (plz dont kill me)
Just plug the modem straight into the PC, powercycle the modem, restart the PC, and if the ping problem goes away, get a new router.
Also make sure you're not torrenting at the same time as you're gaming.
Sooo..... I don't know.
Experience tells me, however, that what you're experiencing is not a hardware problem. If you plug it directly into your computer and it's still lagging, I don't think it's possible for anyone to be leeching your connection, either.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's something wrong with your Internet connection. Have you (gulp) tried asking for someone to come out and look at your line? I know..you'll have to be on the phone forever.. :x
There should be a test that customers can take to test expertise with computers so they don't have to talk to grunt people on the phone telling you to reboot your router and computer - but that's a different topic altogether.
Recently for the past few weeks during peak times (7 - 12) , my ping would dramatically increase.
Servers which normally would give me a ping of 20 would now be giving me 180.
Doing some research I found people with very similar problems (I don't have the link though) and all signs point to the cable service area being overloaded. Which there isn't much you can do about except switch to DSL.