Problems With Pings

RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Extreme fluctuation</div> I'm not really sure where to ask this, but as NS is the only HL mod I play, I'll throw it open to the community here.

My pings in NS fluctuate to a massive degree. I usually get pings between 30 - 70 on local servers, but as soon as the action starts, it jumps. It will soar to 400+, jump down to around 200, and keep swinging wildly. In net_graph my downloads swings between 70kb and 700! Nothing is steady; everything flutuates wildly. Gameplay suffers greatly as a result; in fact NS for me right now is almost unplayable.

My FPS sits fine at 60 (for some reason even though my moniter is set to 85 hertz, HL won't go higher than 60 FPS), and during these ping spikes it doesn't change.

My system specs are as follows:

Athlon XP 1800
Winfast GeForce 4 Ti4200
256 DDR ram
7200 Maxtor hdd

My internet connection is a 1500kbit/sec ADSL line.
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  • lightning1lightning1 Join Date: 2004-03-13 Member: 27308Members
    edited June 2004
    If you are using latest Nvidia drivers, go to refresh rate overides, select the display settings you are using and and enter the refresh rate you want to use.

    Edit: I don't think the above will affect ping, but given you are at the level you are I hate to suggest looking at your steam internet settings so I won't.

    Edit 2: Sorry for choppy post, trying to get ready for work.

    GO here to check your connection: <a href='http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks' target='_blank'>http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks</a>

    Also make sure you have run spybot S&D and Adware 6.0. You can get both at cnet.com for free, and recommend you run both.
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  • AfrAfr Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16240Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Check your rates?
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  • RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
    <a href='http://ttester.broadbandreports.com/tweak/block:2dc13e7?service=dsl&speed=1500&os=winXP&via=normal' target='_blank'>The results from that page you recommended</a>

    Unfortunatly I really don't know what that all means. Also, Afr, I'm unsure as to what "rates" you are refering to. Moniter refresh rates?

    I really am a tech noob with this stuff for which I apologise. Thanks for the help guys <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • DaedalusDaedalus Join Date: 2003-04-02 Member: 15152Members
    Ok, I have two suggestions. One is taken from the above post. When you're in the game, bring up the console and type 'rate'. This is the amount of data send by your computer to the server, and will affect the accuracy of your shots etc. For dial-up my rate is 3500, but when I'm using ADSL I change it to around 9000, which should be plenty.

    If that doesn't fix your problem, theres another thing you can try, but only if you're running Windows XP. Go to your network neighbourhood. Go to the properties of your internet connection and there should be a list of protocols like TCP/IP. Look for one called QoS. This is a 'reliability' protocol courtesy of Microsoft. Turning it off made a great deal of difference for me and I've had no ill effects. Just untick the box beside it and click OK.

    Hopefully that helped <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • JaspJasp Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13076Members
    Very strange question but have you gone onto the steam settings menu and selected your internet type, this sets up rate, updaterate, and cl_cmdrate for all games under steam.
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  • GeorgebGeorgeb Join Date: 2004-06-14 Member: 29302Members
    What he means by rates i think is the rates of the fps and other things, goto your config and edit that to see if thats the problem....

    Regards
    George
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  • RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Very strange question but have you gone onto the steam settings menu and selected your internet type, this sets up rate, updaterate, and cl_cmdrate for all games under steam.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Man I feel like an idiot. When I installed Steam, I told it that my connection was T1>Lan. So of course it interpreted that as 28k modem. I changed it in settings and everything is sweet now. I can't believe it was something as simple as this. Thanks a bunch guys! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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