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thetitletrack · 09-04-2006, 14:14

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?

09-04-2006, 14:14	#60
thetitletrack Inactive Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Glasgow Services: VM 10Mb Broadband Posts: 28	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?