hi Sepulchre
im a dundee based battlefield player and know ur pain m8.
before the area was oversubscribed and network capacity not able to handle the load at peak times - ping was 25-35 at worst.
now 25-180 over 10secs - on a busy channel.
best workaround is to do what we all are doing now - switching channels. Tech support has everyone that phones up doing this! Imagine the chaos!
eg.so as one channel gets packed its a race for an hour to get off the busy channel and onto a less busy channel at peak time.
there are other "pockets" of BY/telewest not bothering to do anything about the network - doesnt help much but take solace that ur not alone.
its nothing to do with ur modem - its BY and the crappy oversubbcribed duff network not being able to cope with the load at peak time.
im elite user for years and now so sick of it - going have a nice afternoon on my day off getting a refund and downgrading my service to 4mb at least.
regards
jaggedx