Author Topic: Help (Read 803 times)

paulobrien6969 · « **on:** October 13, 2004, 07:32:30 PM »

since the latest map i have been getting lag for instance
i got ho'd and none of the hits registered till i came out of the loop i was in(like 5 secs or so l8r)
i have a cable internet connection which is 128kb
and i have never had lag before
i thought it might go away but after logging a few times and also leaving it till the next day it made no difference and is making shooting nmes very hard.i cant see it being my sp because the only reason i can think it would be them is that there system is very busy but its like 3am here so theres no way thats a busy time ,and besides its never been a problem whatever time ive been on b4
i have no viruses or spyware

any suggestions gratefully received

Blooz · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2004, 07:44:11 PM »

Today has been a rough one for internet for me.

Each time I surf to California there has been a huge delay.

I'm thinking it's just a temporary thing.

I'm guessing that there is some trouble in the works somewhere thats slowing things down a bit.

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2004, 06:30:13 PM »

sorted the problem:)
went through all the things that have run or been installed in the last week , and the only thing that ive changed is the fact i installed windows xp service pack 2
i have now uninstalled it and the lag problem went straight away.
now im no pc genius and i have no real idea why this would affect
my internet connection, but it did!
must have to do with the advanced security of sp2?
something to do with filtering the connection?
anyhow its fixed im happy
just dont install SP2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was told it was trouble
and since my os was fine b4 it, if it aint broke dont fix it

Balsy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2004, 07:59:19 AM »

PaulO

SP2 will install a firewall during the installation process, just be sure you select NO firewall. I understand that can cause issues.

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2004, 02:04:38 PM »

ok scrap my post saying its sorted coz its not:(
still getting same lag
now ive done a ping check from a site and it came back as 90,
in ah2 the ping for me is between 120 and 160+
now i havent really taken much notice of ping before but as far as i can remember it was running at 110 to 120 so it running up to 160 is a new thing
my sp seems fine with everything else i run via the internet its just aces high
im lost

Estes · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2004, 03:12:50 PM »

ping isn't as relevant to your connection as packet loss is.

Read Skuzzy's stickies in this forum, run a ping plot to the IP address he gives in the stickies.

And then report it here.

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2004, 06:02:10 PM »

how do you run a ping plot?

SNO · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2004, 09:52:33 AM »

Here is the freeware version of pingplotter, download the one that says "freeware"

http://www.pingplotter.com/download.html

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2004, 09:53:51 AM »

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2004, 10:06:35 AM »

i dont understand:confused:

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2004, 10:21:27 AM »

if theres no response how am i even getting in game

straffo · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2004, 10:38:43 AM »

Check if you have not forbid ICMP in your FireWall.

SNO · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2004, 10:46:02 AM »

Makeu sure your firewall is not blocking the pingplotter application

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2004, 10:10:44 AM »

here it is it was all iver the place at points.
hope this is relivant

paulobrien6969 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2004, 10:20:20 AM »

heres another 5 minutes later