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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: MADe on January 17, 2014, 10:09:11 PM
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Late War server ping details.
When on the ping details page, I observe that approximately every 30-35 packets sent, I lose 1 packet 4 times in a row. Its a rather consistent pattern so I always wondered what this means. Just interested in what I am being shown.
ty
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Plenty of things can cause this, I've seen it too. Starting from the obvious:
There may be something in the Internet causing issues, like storm damages in the infrastructure or just your ISP. Not much you can do about these.
Then again it might be your router and/or its built-in firewall.
Or it can be your anti-virus checking each package, choking after every 30 packets or so. Putting the game in to the ignore list might help if you don't dare shutting the whole thing down during gameplay.
Other background programs may share the Internet connection for their own purposes. It can be anything from a printer program or Flash Player or Windows checking for updates up to a bot sending trash mail without your anti-virus knowing it. Disabling automatic updates and minimizing background processes will help.
Failing hardware can cause some issues, too, especially if you have overclocked your system up to its limits.
There may be other things, too, which I can't remember or don't know of, but hopefully this will serve as a starting point.
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I have seen the same thing as MADe for a couple of years. During that time I have used different ISP's, operating systems, virus programs, built a new puter,. What is interesting is that I have run ping plotter at the same time as I was watching the AH ping details and no packet lass was recorded in ping plotter as it was showing in AH.
shamus
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There's variables beyond our control. Yesterday I had no packet losses, today there were several in the 50 or so sample I looked at before logging in. And I did exactly the same things before playing both times. The Internet is a volatile beast.
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Tanx gents,
I was just wondering what it was. It is such a consistant pattern, 30 packets then 4 times in a row, I drop a single packet, then 30 packets..... No big deal its just always like that, no matter what.
Ask no questions, get no answers.
:salute