Tsunami Gaming

Well my ping sky rockets for reasons i cannot explain, it may do it when there are only 6 ppl playing but most of the time it dose it when about 12 ppl are playing, it never used to do this untill a few weeks ago, i thort it would just fix itself but it hasn't, would re-installing ren help? or even uninstalling ren-guard? Iv'e rang up my provider and the just tell me to email them, then the email tells me to call them so its a never ending circle, stupid providers.

hilary4u

Go to http://www.speedtest.net and post your results.

Odds are your internet is fine, its just your cpu that is randomly spiking or spyware is eating up bandwidth.

But the best place to start is figuring out what your speeds are, then go from there.

wasnt really intended for me but hey im bored



is that bad?

Could be better.. but yeah its fine, similiar to mine i believe

whatcyrix wrote:wasnt really intended for me but hey im bored



is that bad?

For DSL, that's actually "max". You can't really support more than that on a DSL line. 512k is good upload, and you have 256k more than that. 3Mb of download is good (expecially on DSL), and you have over 2x that. So you're doing very well.

But lets not turn this into an ISP discussion.

fl00d3d wrote:

whatcyrix wrote:wasnt really intended for me but hey im bored



is that bad?

For DSL, that's actually "max". You can't really support more than that on a DSL line. 512k is good upload, and you have 256k more than that. 3Mb of download is good (expecially on DSL), and you have over 2x that. So you're doing very well.

But lets not turn this into an ISP discussion.

She has Road Runner, same as me, but mine pwns.

I think she has cable thing?

But mine is 24Mbps/1Mbps ktyvmgtfoourinternetskthxbai.

she?

whatcyrix wrote:she?

LOL

yer thats what i think it is that my comp is randomly spiking or the spywear, how can i fix these problems? i have AVG anti spyware but it comes up clean, and so dose my viruse scanner?

hilary4u

Yea, well Hil, the problem is, you and I are in Australia, and with 2 people on the internet at the same time, we are getting lag because it cant handle that many people at once.

I assume you to live in the same house then?

With her connection, unless one of your is hosting torrents, i doubt that would cause lag spikes.

Well the same thing happens now with my counter strike, for a few months now it just suddenly kept getting these huge spikes and i have always wonder why its just came up so randomly, i dont run any other programs besides mirc when im playing i dont know i hate my comp lol!

hilary4u

Eski and I have also experienced some terrible lag relatively recently. We both get this laggy type thing, where we're getting it by a tank but it's turret appears to be facing the other way. Also, I've been getting damaged about 3-5 seconds before I see a person/tank fire.

Nightma12 wrote:I assume you to live in the same house then?

With her connection, unless one of your is hosting torrents, i doubt that would cause lag spikes.

Twas a joke nightma, and no, we don't live in the same house
Then again... Aussie does have crappy internet and phone services...
But yea, I get those lag spikes aswell, but thats probably caused by my wi-fi only being able to reach around 40% connectivity at any one time, and also disconnecting every so often.

Having a ping problem can be from a result of a lot of problems, either one problem, or as a group of problems.


1) Check to see whats hogging up your internet. Most of the time, something that is hogging up your upload when your on DSL can make your download nearly absolete. Or if you have something using 100% of your download speed, you can't really play video games either.

2) Since your in Australia, and a lot of the servers are hosted in US / UK, I guess distance could be a problem?

3) Having lots of spyware - adware - virus activity on your computer can drain your speed as well.

4) CPU / RAM / I-O usage, even though this could be irrelevant to your internet speed in some ways, having any one of these can increase your ping. Having a lower FPS, can increase a PING.


My 2 cents.