Problems in erskine area
 

Anyone having problems in and around Erskine area?? I'm seeing high pings on most uk based games servers. To me it looks like a problem around Manchester anyone else having problems? I can download at full speed from MS site no problems yet on others (obv taking a diff route) speeds are under 30Kb/s

I'm on 2 Mbit service.

Thanks

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

Hey,

I'm the same - having serious issues playing on BF2 servers - pings are very high however I seem to be able to surf the internet as normal.

I'm in Glasgow near Hampden, I'd imagine we're both connected to the Renfrew proxy server.

It's gotten worse even today, I can't play anything online.

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

this is the first day I've noticed it. Was fine last night

I was on a german bf2 server earlier today and it was pinging lower than uk based ones. Got a feeling something on the networks fallen over today.

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

I tried German, French, US and UK servers, they were all a bit different but there's definitely a poor connection somewhere.

Pings from 300-500+ ms at best. Admins booting me for high pings constantly.

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

Yeah, same problems here too. I'm in County Durham, and having major latency issues playing World of Warcraft, getting pings 500+
I agree, it seems like the problem is in the Manchester area. Everything is fine on a tracert until I hit hop 8, then I get this...

8 212 ms 200 ms 205 ms man-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.178]

...nasty

Been on to tech support, and spoke to a woman in India. She took the MAC address of my modem, and asked me to reboot in safe mode. Once I did this, she then told me that there is a known issue with high latency's, slow downloading and internet browsing at the moment, but unfortunatley she is was unable to give any sort of time frame as to when it will be resolved (the usual).
Internet browsing is fine, downloading seems to be ok also.

I just hope they sort this out soon.

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

Same here at the mo (Cheshire):

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.88] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.88: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=243
Reply from 212.58.224.88: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=243
Reply from 212.58.224.88: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=243
Reply from 212.58.224.88: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.88:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 109ms, Average = 64ms


Edit: Just ran a speed test also (10mbit):

Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:53:42 UTC

1st 512K took 5953 ms = 86 KB/sec, approx 709 Kbps, 0.69 Mbps
2nd 512K took 5438 ms = 94.2 KB/sec, approx 776 Kbps, 0.76 Mbps
3rd 512K took 4672 ms = 109.6 KB/sec, approx 903 Kbps, 0.88 Mbps
4th 512K took 6062 ms = 84.5 KB/sec, approx 696 Kbps, 0.68 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 771 Kbps, 0.75 Mbps


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Re: Problems in erskine area
 

Been having the same problem in the Paisley area. Most BF2 servers have jumped to over 300. Servers which were at about 70 last night.

Re: Problems in erskine area
 

Yeah, BF2 has become unplayable due to it, too much lagging.

Bleh.

When are they going to fix it?