Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

What firewall are you using? I know that BF2 is quite sensitive to certain firewalls. For instance I know that BF2 tends to have problems with the last update to version 6 of zonealarm. Switching this off makes a hell of a difference to my gameplay. I never used to have problems with BF2 at first, but then I started getting major lag problems. Turning off Zonealarm when I play it makes it playable if I find I start getting lags in the game...

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

I use the WindowsXP SP2 firewall.Although BF2 is listed as a exception

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Not related to BF2, but a lot of Everquest players have also reported problems with recent updates to Zone Alarm and switching it off giving marked improvement in server lag.

Just something for those having similar problems to consider. :)

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

new patch is out and there seems to be talk of a fix for that punkbuster software as well but not in the notes.....

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Mine is running fine again only get the odd ping spike but not long enough to be booted.Dont know what NTL did but its fixed my issue.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Can anyone explain why the pings to many european servers are higher than to america?

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

I get 100ms pings before I exit ntl's network at times never mind even the eu, the answer would be is congestion. Doing a traceroute might indicate to you where it starts.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

yer i having probs with some euro servers mainly gameservers.net been like this for over a month now just bad routing i guess :S..

iam also lagging in bf2 as well mainly packet loss it feels like i checked my firewall ect spywere ect all seeems fine,i done sevral trace routes ect here is my results



Downstream Receive Power Level : -1.9 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 31.7 dB
Upstream Transmit Power Level : 47.25 dBmV

my leval is a low no?


i know this is a traceroute to usa using dsl reports but i find it a lil usefull

From East Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 166.90.136.33 0% 60 60 0.35 0.43 0.63
1 ae-1-55.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 0.64 3.43 88.97

2 as-0-0.bbr2.London1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 66.11 68.33 121.56

3 ae-0-56.gar2.London1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 66.10 68.78 180.66

4 195.50.91.70 0% 60 60 66.39 68.39 81.97
5 win-bb-b-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 67.63 71.21 157.29

6 win-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 68.47 73.39 201.39

7 man-bb-b-so-600-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 73.23 76.51 175.13

8 manc-t3core-1b-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 73.18 73.35 73.67

9 oldh-t2cam1-b-ge-wan31.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 73.79 80.81 172.72

10 ubr01oldh-ge02.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 74.00 74.86 89.45

11 cpc3-oldh1-6-0-cust246.manc.cable.ntl.com 2% 59 60 80.63 85.97 135.47
Pass:


From West Coast - USA to YOU
Hop Host LOSS Rcv Sent Best Avg Worst
0 unknown.Level3.net 0% 60 60 0.61 4.17 74.18
1 ae-1-51.bbr1.SanJose1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 0.69 2.70 65.75

2 as-0-0.bbr2.London1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 141.59 143.37 167.44

3 ae-0-54.gar2.London1.Level3.net 0% 60 60 141.71 146.35 250.06

4 195.50.91.70 0% 60 60 141.90 143.24 152.40
5 win-bb-b-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 142.98 146.32 209.72

6 win-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 145.60 152.97 275.70
7 man-bb-b-so-600-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 148.79 153.10 223.89

8 manc-t3core-1b-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 148.77 150.11 171.50

9 oldh-t2cam1-b-ge-wan33.inet.ntl.com 0% 60 60 149.40 155.18 213.24

10 ubr01oldh-ge02.inet.ntl.com 2% 59 60 149.76 151.00 170.02

11 cpc3-oldh1-6-0-cust246.manc.cable.ntl.com 2% 59 60 156.01 164.


shows a bad server @ my main exchange?
any 1 else from oldham or manchester having same probs


ping www.bbc.co.uk -t

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.127] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=245
Reply from 212.58.224.127: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=245


lol sry for all these but i just hope some 1 can make sense of this and maybee help :)

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=97ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=246
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=246
Reply from 212.58.224.85: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.85:
Packets: Sent = 22, Received = 21, Lost = 1 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 97ms, Average = 45ms

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Been getting problems all day.

virtually 4 months perfect then this


| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

| 10.232.168.1 - 4 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 200 | 2407 | 15 |
| renf-t2cam1-a-v116.inet.ntl.com - 0 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 176 | 2297 | 16 |
| renf-t2core-a-ge-wan63.inet.ntl.com - 0 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 164 | 2188 | 32 |
| ren-bb-a-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com - 0 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 154 | 2078 | 16 |
| bre-bb-b-so-110-0.inet.ntl.com - 8 | 26 | 24 | 15 | 158 | 1969 | 31 |
| bre-bb-a-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com - 0 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 247 | 2953 | 31 |
| gfd-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com - 0 | 26 | 26 | 15 | 259 | 2844 | 31 |
| redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com - 4 | 26 | 25 | 15 | 251 | 2735 | 31 |
| 195.66.226.224 - 0 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 246 | 2625 | 31 |
| opt48.multiplay.co.uk - 4 | 25 | 24 | 15 | 231 | 2516 | 16 |
|________________________________________________
WinMTR - 0.8.


Was spiking to 3500 sometimes. BF2 is pointless with ping like this.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

My connection seems to have settled down a bit of late. Although I do now have to shut down zone alarm to be able to play BF2... I still do get at least once or twice a day lost connections. Usually right in the middle of a game, which is very frustrating especially when I'm having a good round...:mad:

I'm still thinking of dropping my speed down to the 2MB line though. Paying 34.99 for what I originally signed up as a 10MB line, now only for it to be degraded to a *upto 10MB* line, seems now to be steep.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

Couldn't agree more.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

With all due as speeds go up you will get max performance less and less. You were never sold a guaranteed 10Mbit service and will never be sold a guaranteed service from any provider without paying megabucks for it.

I appreciate that this isn't always clear and that it's easy to think that you've been sold something that will always work at full speed but those horrid terms and conditions that no-one actually reads along with the small print outside of them makes it perfectly clear that performance is in no way guaranteed.

You only 'thought' you signed up for 10Mbit, no degredation was done at any point.

That withstanding if you can't hit that 10Mbit at any time day or night and you are seeing not much better than 2Mbit at peak times there's clearly a problem there.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

To be fair I can see why people expect the full 10meg, the product has a 75gig cap. The cap assumably is to protect the shared pool of bandwidth from been swamped and to ensure good performance which of course isn't happening.

Re: Massive ping spikes BF2
 

I've been getting the same problem with BF2, for the last week it has been completely unplayable.

I normally get on fine with pings of 10-25ms on UK servers, but now it seems to be running extremely slow (400+) and Admins are kicking me from servers for high pings.

I've had a good look around and done many different ping and trace tests, it all seems to be coming back with these sort of pings (300-500ms) - why has the quality of connection went down so suddenly?

I'm in Glasgow at the moment: -

Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:09:33 UTC
1st 128K took 2394 ms = 54750 Bytes/sec = approx 456 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 3525 ms = 37184 Bytes/sec = approx 309 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 2964 ms = 44221 Bytes/sec = approx 368 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 4707 ms = 27846 Bytes/sec = approx 232 kbits/sec


It's pretty crap from what I was getting a few weeks ago - beginning to think 10Meg was a bad idea.

I'm moving house in a few weeks and I will be very close to the nearest Proxy server (Anniesland -> Renfrew Server is probably 2 miles at the most as the crow flies.)

I wonder if this will help.

Oh and by the way, I use AVG, Spy Sweeper and Stopzilla but these are all switched off before BF2 gaming. Windows Firewall has no effect if BF2 is an exception.

Anyone got anything similar up this way?