Ping Issue

MetalFaceX

I just recently bought HL1 and I installed Natural Selection. So I jump into a server and on the server listing it has 45 ping to me. I join a random team and I'm on aliens. So I'm walking around people are shooting and a bunch of stuff is going on. So my ping shoots up too 600. This happens in every server. I've restarted my internet I've reinstalled both HL1 and Natural Selection. I can't figure out this problem. Can anyone help me? This is my speedtest link btw <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/result/609262195.png" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/609262195.png</a> Hope that helps.

MetalFaceX

Never mind..I got it. My rates were all screwed up sorry..can maybe this get locked? Or deleted. Thanks

A_Pajander

How did you adjust your rates? I'm having a similar problem, although my ping only goes from 50 to 150-200 or so. I've tried fiddling with the rates according to various guides on the net. Last I had was rate 15000, cl_cmdrate 60 and cl_updaterate 40 I think. Gonna try with default settings now.

It's pretty retarded that you have to configure textfiles to get a 10 year old game/engine working decently on a 10/2 Mbit connection.

Bacillus

<!--quoteo(post=1743614:date=Dec 12 2009, 11:12 PM:name=snaga)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (snaga @ Dec 12 2009, 11:12 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1743614"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->How did you adjust your rates? I'm having a similar problem, although my ping only goes from 50 to 150-200 or so. I've tried fiddling with the rates according to various guides on the net. Last I had was rate 15000, cl_cmdrate 60 and cl_updaterate 40 I think. Gonna try with default settings now.

It's pretty retarded that you have to configure textfiles to get a 10 year old game/engine working decently on a 10/2 Mbit connection.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Rate 20000, cl_cmdrate 101, cl_updaterate 50 should work on most modern connections as long as you're connecting to servers below 100 ping and you've got somewhat stable fps close to 100. Fine tuning the rates can get you further, but those should work enough to avoid any bigger mess like those lagspikes.

A_Pajander

Ugh, it seems it had nothing to do with my rates - the problem was this:

<a href="http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/31980-lag-online-games-windows-7-a.html#post331641" target="_blank">http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/31980-la...html#post331641</a>

Posting it here because someone else is bound to have the same issue now with Windows 7.