Bad Connection

[TrueKill]

i dont know but everytime i go to the MA my connection looks like this





it only happens in the MA not in anyother arena can someone tell me if or how i can fix this thanks.

[wrag]

I get a bad connect to MA as well.  I run pingplotter connect to ma for about 5 minutes and see no packet loss.

I log on and check my connect before I enter an arena and see what looks allot like cyclic packet loss.

Seems to last about 25 pings or so every 80 to 110 pings???????

This seems to occur about every time.

Note: very recently (yesterday and today only) seeing packet loss probs with pingplotter from time to time.

Think the net itself is porked.

There may be some packet loss with the AAHII MA but thinkin it's made allot worse with the net "augmented" packet loss.

Seems to be savvis.net creating most of the problems with my connect.

I also have terrible phone lines (line noise is bad) at my location.

Here are my settings.

USRobotics external modem set to 38000.

actual connect is at 37333.

compression is OFF

FiFo is set to 3/4 in and out.

VSync is set to always ON.

AA and AF are set to program preferences.

Lag is killing me.  I see the con and on my FE the con has NO gun solution and BANG I get hit

Really porks SA and ACM when what you see is not what you get!

[TrueKill]

bump:mad:

[StarOfAfrica2]

Wouldnt surprise me if Savvis is giving you problems, they've been hurting financially for a few years now.  I'm sure they are trying to stretch everything as far as it will go.

[dedalos]

Truekill, mine looks the same way.  Why do you think this is a problem?

[Skuzzy]

The Host Queue for the MA is going to look like that.  It is a difference in the server operating systems and is perfectly normal.

[airbumba]

Mine looks like that as well, so it's normal eh?.

Crap , there goes my excuse.

[TrueKill]

so screen freezes and crappy connection only in the MA is normal everytime i takeoff, shoot my guns, get close to another plane bout 2-3K, and land game freezes up for a sec it makes it kinda hard to shoot if u cant see where the enemy is when it freezes. i can go to the CT TA DA or SEA and i have the best connection all stright lines then go to the MA and BAM crappy connection

[Skuzzy]

No, those are not normal TrueKill, but the graph you posted is pretty normal.  The constant sawtooth in the Host Queue from 0 to 10ms is exactly the way it should be.
The flat line in the other arenas is exactly yhe way it should be as well.

It is just a difference in the granularity of the operating system clocks of FreeBSD and Solaris.  It has zero effect on the quality of the connection between the two operating systems.
The big difference between the MA and the other arenas is the number of players in the game, and the terrain.  There is simply more going on in the MA, with more detail, than in the other arenas.

The things you are suffering from sound like resource issues, where somewhere in your system, for whatever reason, you are running out of resources or having resource conflicts.
Sources for things like this include spyware/malware, viruses, other applications running in the background, interrupt conflicts or shared interrupts, and/or several others.

When the system is idle, pop up the Task Manager, click on the "Processes" tab and note how many are shown.  Should be around 19 or 20.  Now watch the CPU usage percentage at the bottom of the dialog panel.
It should bounce from 0 to 2 percent, or so, every 2 to 3 seconds.  It if is higher, or does not drop to zero, you have something running in background you may not be aware of.
Remember the process list only shows active EXE files and does not show any DLL's that may be running in the background.  There are also hidden programs running too, which MS hides (there are normally of no consequence and account for the constant CPU usage from 0 to 2 percent).

Also note, if you are on Road Runner or AOL, there is a serious routing problem in thier network.  It has existed for a couple of days and they seem very lacksidasical about correcting it.  Although, looking at your graph, I doubt that is the cause, but thought I would mention it.

Why not shoot me a copy of DXDIAG output and let's go from there?  At the same time, let me know how you have AH configured.
Have you run any Ping Plots/traces to see if the Internet is the issue?

[Overlag]

Originally posted by TrueKill
i dont know but everytime i go to the MA my connection looks like this





it only happens in the MA not in anyother arena can someone tell me if or how i can fix this thanks.

mine has always been like that, i thought that was normal?