High Ping Times

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I've had enough! I was playing an online game where my ping was in the 100s, constantly double that of opponents. Loosing game after game I uninstalled the game and am now done with it.

Really if your player moves like a tank because of a high Ping online multiplayer is unplayable. :yuck:

Worst, after humiliating defeats from LPBs I was frustrated to read on the chat "Thanks" from the opponent and knowing he felt so much superior when in fact his better connection was the winner.

I'm glad I ended this exercise in frustration.

Did you have similar issues as well? How did you work around it?
 
Sucks. I get 30-60 normally when playing on any server for anything in North America.



If you're having trouble on a console there isn't much you can do. If you're on a PC, depending on your OS, there are a few things you can do.
1: Leatrix Latency Fix
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
This was one of the first ones I ever found out about and it did so much for me when I did.
2: PingEnhancer
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info16336-PingEnhancer.html
This one does the same as Leatrix, plus a little bit extra for Vista/7 users.

Beyond that, you start to get into modifying your IRQ Priorities for your network card and that can get dangerous. I'd suggest trying out Leatrix or Ping Enhancer first and see if that up's your game a bit.




As you can see, the further I go away from where I live the more ping I get. However It won't go above 300ms at the farthest point from me. I wouldn't play on that sort of ping unless I was desperate though.
 
I'm LUCKY if my ping is below 120...Sometimes it's 480...I've seen it up in the 2000's before
 
Suddenly I feel pretty much blessed. 10-25 was pretty normal back in the days, like 8-10 years ago, when I played shooters online. What kind of messed up connection are you guys forced to use? Did you ever try to have your provider remove interleaving from your DSL line?
 
Moved to the Computer section and changed the title. No need for name calling.
 
Mr. S
Suddenly I feel pretty much blessed. 10-25 was pretty normal back in the days, like 8-10 years ago, when I played shooters online. What kind of messed up connection are you guys forced to use? Did you ever try to have your provider remove interleaving from your DSL line?
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We have the worst internet provider in the world...



Frontier


Unfortunately, nobody else is better...
 
Bergauk, I tried both programs and I saw a marginal 10 ms improvement. Still not enough though. :(

My issue is partly because the server of the game is in Poland, thousands of miles away from Greece, and my upload speed is very low and a better connection is expensive.
 
AlexGTV
Bergauk, I tried both programs and I saw a marginal 10 ms improvement. Still not enough though. :(

My issue is partly because the server of the game is in Poland, thousands of miles away from Greece, and my upload speed is very low and a better connection is expensive.
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Bandwidth has little to do with latency times. Run a traceroute to the game server and see where the increases are happening at, though I am willing to bet it has to do with both the distance involved and how your ISP works.
 
Azuremen
Bandwidth has little to do with latency times. Run a traceroute to the game server and see where the increases are happening at, though I am willing to bet it has to do with both the distance involved and how your ISP works.
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+1

As an example. I know for Starcraft 2, the South East Asia server is located in Singapore. If you're in Australia with Optus (ISP), it routes Singapore traffic through the US West Coast First. So you get horrible pings.
 
Yesterday Dodo killed bigpond internet causing all bigpond customers in australia to have no internet
 
No matter the game I usually get from 100 to 300, on my slow ass 1 megabit connection, thankfully.
 

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