Major Ping Problems

AvengerXAvengerX Join Date: 2004-03-20 Member: 27459Banned
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">yeah</div> alright I've usually gotten around 50-100 ping usually at most servers near by and stuff I have high speed interenet and stuff, but ever since one night when I was at a server that crashed my NS ping has been outragous and fluxuates anywhere from 300 -1200 +

what should I do?
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  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Check your internet settings with steam. Open the options/internet tab. Make sure it's set right.
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  • Marine0IMarine0I Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8639Members, Constellation
    Do a tracert to make sure its not you ISP killing you. Try several different servers of NS, just to make sure its not that server that hates you.

    Ensure that all p2p is off, windows update isnt going.

    If you dont know how to do a tracert, here's how. Click start, all programs, acessories, command prompt.

    In the command prompt type

    <!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->tracert www.yourispshomepage.com<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

    or <!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->ping www.yourispshomepage.com<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->
    Make sure you exchange the web adress for your actual isps homepage - so for me I'd do www.internode.com.au.

    If the ping times it reads out suck bad, then its your isp thats giving you the trouble, and not the server. Check all that, then report back and we'll go from there.
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  • napinapi Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14172Members, Constellation
    Make sure steam isn't updating one of the official mods - it did that to me with DoD once and i didn't realise.. was getting terrible ping - only when i noticed the different icon did i stop it

    as said, check windows update is set to only download when you say
    same with all media players etc - don't auto-download codecs etc

    another common cause would be if you have an email virus - they will spam out messages hogging your bandwidth
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