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SteJ · 30-05-2004, 17:18

I have exactly the same problem up until 2 weeks ago I was fine, and happily playing some online call of duty with a nice 30-35 ping as It has been for 6 months or so, but all of a sudden I started warping in the game and thought the server died but what happened was my whole connection died, zonealarm then told me It had detected a new network, fair enough I thought a new IP address no big deal so I reconnnnected to the server only for my ping to fluctuate from 70-500 which is far from acceptable, I ran docsdiag and seen that I had been moved from upstream channel 4 (which has about 170 users) to upstream channel 2 which was fine for me, I'm also In the Northants area and can only conclude It's UBR related.
I had this problem last year as well for 3 months until my UBR was changed due to some "planned maintenance" in my area, and I was fine until 2 weeks ago.
Browsing and d/loads are fine only my ping is affected, which Is a shame since I only have BB for gaming. Ntl's CM tech support were no help since none of them seem to be able to grasp the concept of gaming pings no matter how much you spell It out to them.
So rather than complain and waste my time I've decided that ADSL is the way to go, get a BT line put in and theres a BIG list of ADSL service providers, so If one's no good u can simply try another which Is a luxury we can't have with NTL BB.

30-05-2004, 17:18	#15
SteJ Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northants Posts: 11	Re: NTL Gaming Northampton I have exactly the same problem up until 2 weeks ago I was fine, and happily playing some online call of duty with a nice 30-35 ping as It has been for 6 months or so, but all of a sudden I started warping in the game and thought the server died but what happened was my whole connection died, zonealarm then told me It had detected a new network, fair enough I thought a new IP address no big deal so I reconnnnected to the server only for my ping to fluctuate from 70-500 which is far from acceptable, I ran docsdiag and seen that I had been moved from upstream channel 4 (which has about 170 users) to upstream channel 2 which was fine for me, I'm also In the Northants area and can only conclude It's UBR related. I had this problem last year as well for 3 months until my UBR was changed due to some "planned maintenance" in my area, and I was fine until 2 weeks ago. Browsing and d/loads are fine only my ping is affected, which Is a shame since I only have BB for gaming. Ntl's CM tech support were no help since none of them seem to be able to grasp the concept of gaming pings no matter how much you spell It out to them. So rather than complain and waste my time I've decided that ADSL is the way to go, get a BT line put in and theres a BIG list of ADSL service providers, so If one's no good u can simply try another which Is a luxury we can't have with NTL BB.