High Ping Problems

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I play DOD Source usually on Lotus server 67.212.160.118:27015 and in the past usually had a ping of 72. Recently I have started getting pings of 300-400 as a result the game is impossible to play.

My computer was old so I got a new HP with:

PhenomII-X4-820 2.8G

6 MGB DDR3 SDRAM

Evora 1GB video card

WINDOWS 7

I still have the lag issue.

I have a DSL connection and usually I get 2meg down I check it at Speakeasy it's always in the 2meg range even when the game is lagging badly.

I altered my config game file as follows:

type mat_queue_mode 2

rate 50000

cl_updaterate 101

cmd_rate 100

NO effect. I also tried setting the Steam.exe priority to low still no effect.

When the ping issue happens it seems to happen for ALL Steam servers ie if I search for games based on latency they are all 300-400.

I have tried turning of my firewall etc. no effect.

I tried Game Booster - turning off all background programs no effect.

It’s a brand new computer – no spyware, viruses etc.

I have no problems with normal browsing however I tried to ping the game server I typed C:ping 67.212.160.118 and timed out? Am I doing it wrong?

Can anyone help?

Thank you

[Mana 3,867]

I play DOD Source usually on Lotus server 67.212.160.118:27015 and in the past usually had a ping of 72. Recently I have started getting pings of 300-400 as a result the game is impossible to play.

My computer was old so I got a new HP with:

PhenomII-X4-820 2.8G

6 MGB DDR3 SDRAM

Evora 1GB video card

WINDOWS 7

I still have the lag issue.

I have a DSL connection and usually I get 2meg down I check it at Speakeasy it's always in the 2meg range even when the game is lagging badly.

I altered my config game file as follows:

type mat_queue_mode 2

rate 50000

cl_updaterate 101

cmd_rate 100

NO effect. I also tried setting the Steam.exe priority to low still no effect.

When the ping issue happens it seems to happen for ALL Steam servers ie if I search for games based on latency they are all 300-400.

I have tried turning of my firewall etc. no effect.

I tried Game Booster - turning off all background programs no effect.

It’s a brand new computer – no spyware, viruses etc.

I have no problems with normal browsing however I tried to ping the game server I typed C:ping 67.212.160.118 and timed out? Am I doing it wrong?

Can anyone help?

Thank you

Server is probably setup to ignore ping (due to spam reasons).

Are you on wireless? You sure you don't have anything downloading? Automatic updates?

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NO I'm wired and o downloads or updates running.

[Mana 3,867]

NO I'm wired and o downloads or updates running.

Probably an issue with your ISP then, ask them or upgrade .

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As it turns out it's partially my ISP (BellSouth/ATT) but here's the fix I have so far, it may help others. I had been just testing with Speakeasy speed test but found www.speedtest.net which is a great site and also has a ping tester. Found I had "jitter" and packet loss issues.

So my fix involved finding the correct MTU and resetting it. see www.dslreports.com/faq/5793

Played yesterday and my ping in netgraph stayed close to 80 (with a few spikes).

Hope this may help other with the same problem.