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we had a good few games there mate, shame I couldnt find my mic, not had much use for it on bf2 as no one seems to use them! You sure you are 38 because you sound far too normal and on my level for an "oldie" LOL Ive attached a copy of my pingplotter graph, heard you moaning about bad lag spikes throughout, I think you were the host, prob why your mate thought I had lightening quick reactions :D yet you still managed to knife me a few times, snipers only was fun though maybe I cheated using the semi auto :D

Still the same here, just hoping the work that was meant to be started on friday is just taking longer than expected, maybe they are making a good job of it :) Im on again tonight if you're knockin about

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Always a sign of a good ISP when someone else on a different ISP and on a configuration set for stability and throughput rather than latency, adding an extra 8ms to the ping time, can hit your default gateway before you can.

10 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms cpc4-pres14-2-0-gw.pres.cable.virginmedia.com [62.30.137.1]

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Ive not bought the book you suggested to seph, can you explain that as if you were talking to a 5 yr old? Please :p: Did you mean you hit my default gateway quicker than I can when you are on Be/O2? Ive spent weeks trying to tempt you into this thread and here you are :)

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I haven't bought the book either (yet). I hate it whenn Igni accuses me of not understanding how the network is built! (I know how I'd like it to have been built).

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I will be on shortly me old muck button, I,m actually 39 now but I am slightly retarded because mentally I still think I,m 18 :D, or at least thats what the wife thinks.

Ive ran a few pingplotter test throughout today, pinging every 2.5 seconds shows regular 500+ ms ping spikes, and at times up to 80% packet loss, I dont actually know how to post it like you have so maybe if your mic is working tonight you could talk me through it.

Last night at 2am I even tried pinging to www.virginmedia.com and was getting quite regular spikes over 500ms along most of the hops.

I dont understand all the info but from what I can interpret from this its vm,s network that's shot to crap and cant cope with anything ping sensitive.

A bloody shame really because potentially it could be awesome, and it wont be long before a lot of gamers move away from vm after reaching the end of their patience thresh hold.

I,m gonna speak to our guy over at the CEO's office on Monday, and see if he offer any light at the end of the tunnel, but realistically I see only one alternative.

Catch ya in a mo ho :D

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lol i feel like a 2yr old compared to your understanding of it all :D Igni knows his stuff but its hard for us simple folk to to understand, think yourself lucky you know what hes on about :)

pabs will catch you with a mic now

p.s not that goood my ass :D

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hi Speedy, below should be my ping plotter results

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Go buy it and it'll clear things up. I know how I'd have built it too, sadly such things as CapEx, OpEx and other commercial considerations have to come into things. I'm sure you've done large projects and had to compromise with the money men at some point. :)
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Twitchy! J-i-T-T-t-t-T-e-R :)

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That's exactly what I mean. I get to your default gateway via my O2 line faster than you do ;)

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And this was one of the better ones :(

Just had a few games with speedfreak with me hosting on a private match and it played ok for both of us really but as soon as I go in a game with lots of other players its crapier than a crap in crapsville

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And another just for giggles, if Ive done it correctly that is.

Thanks a million speedy for your time tonight its much appreciated :D

Not bad for an olde with a cruddy connection hay ;);)

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I can see Im going to have to play when Im a bit more sober, those last couple of games were awful :o: dont think I can blame it all on my BB line :D

Well I might be being a bit premature in posting an update as we havent had official word from networks but the work that was being done on my cab has been done and my line is still exactly the same. Codewords keep climbing constantly and gaming can be a pain with an unstable line, Ive been told its looking like its all to do with the much talked about "motorola issue" and I might be getting put on that fault ticket now.

I was told what work they have been doing to try and resolve it and a resolution shouldnt be that far away, for now I'll try and remain optimistic :D

Good luck with yours pabs

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Looking back (quickly) over the thread, you had TV problems. Are thos still there?

If you have both TV and BB issues, then more often that not (but clearly not always), the problem lies between your modem and the street cabinet. Something physical-ish. Has that ever been looked at by the techs handling your case?

Or has the TV issue gone away with the change of card at the CMTS?

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TV issues stopped a while ago after they did some work, either the noise interference caused by someone elses drop cable or after they recommissioned it all. On top of that I've only had 1 t4 in about 3 weeks now so the work they have done up to now has definitely had an effect, just not resolved it all

When I speak to them again tomorrow Im going to ask if they can go to my cab and see if the correctables are at the cab before my line. I mentioned this before to see if it would rule out the line from the cab but as they had ongoing faults to fix he said he would wait to see if the work cured it. Obviously it hasnt so maybe this would be something they will try.

There was apparently a recent software update for the motorola kit, my UBR has got the update but its had no effect on me

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Basically I've been told the same thing this morning speedy, not too impressed if that's the case due to the length this ticket has been open already, and still no resolution, real feedback or proper acceptance of the issue from vm etc.

But at least we have a choice, we either live in hopes that its going to get sorted eventually and just put up with it for now, or move on to pastures new.

I'm on the verge of throwing the towel in anyway, but will give it a couple more days for see if any real information is forth coming.

If it isnt then I will start the ball rolling as they say.

ps went home today at lunch and my sweet Mrs Pabs has bought me BFBC2 :D :angel:

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Well for now Im living in hope, hes getting back to me tomorrow with some more feedback, it was mentioned a resolution could be weeks away but looking how long its gone on for, who knows. Neither of us WANTS to move but if it carries on then like you say the only option is to switch ISP. I did mention to him I couldnt see you sticking around with how bad your line is.

No matter how good hes been with handling my case, if it is down to the moto issue then I cant see him being able to push things through any quicker looking at how long its gone on for. He sounded hopeful though.

Re: mrs pabs, she sounds like a keeper lol I can see why you got married :D