Web browsing slow, gaming impossible, downloading fine

Niles Crane · 12-09-2003, 00:18

My connection has been atrocious for the past two weeks, at least. Web browsing is very slow and i reguarly (at least once every 15 minutes) get a "cannot connect to server" message and pages dont load at all.

Downloading is fine, infact while i'm typing this i'm downloading a file @ 70kbps (i'm on 600k).

Playing any FPS game has become impossible. Every 5 or so minutes i get a lag spike; my ping shoots up to 200-300 and i cant move, shoot or anything. Its as though my connection has been paused. Then after about 20-30 seconds it goes back to normal (pinging around 15-50 and running fine, then it happens again a few minutes later).
With DAoC the same thing happens after being logged in for 5 or so minutes, except after the "lag spike" i just get disconnected from the server. It doesnt reconnect me to the game and let me carry on, like in FPS games.

These are the results of my speed test:

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:14:43 GMT
1st 128K took 1703 ms = 76965 Bytes/sec = approx 640 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1828 ms = 71702 Bytes/sec = approx 597 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1844 ms = 71080 Bytes/sec = approx 591 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 1796 ms = 72980 Bytes/sec = approx 607 kbits/sec

By the way, i'm connected by an ethernet card. I'm in Worthing, West Sussex.

Please, for the love of all things good.....help!

albone · 12-09-2003, 15:40

I know the feeling, I am on usb 150k bb and it makes no difference! I to get kicked off forums and get the dreaded cannot find server messages and click back and alls well for a while then go to get another page and it kicks you out and you end up re logging in. Don't have the answers but there are a lot of dissgruntled customers on here with the same problems. Most put the blame on the added internet traffic due to the virus worm. Appart from that there doesn't seem to be any answers.

**Chris** · 12-09-2003, 16:38

It might be worth trying changing your internet settings to use a proxy server (or change to a different proxy if you're already using one). Dupre posted a how-2 in this thread.

I treid this the other day after getting tired of some pages refusing to load while others seemed fine ... haven't had a problem since.

darkangel · 12-09-2003, 19:54

Quote:

Originally posted by Ezenden
My connection has been atrocious for the past two weeks, at least. Web browsing is very slow and i reguarly (at least once every 15 minutes) get a "cannot connect to server" message and pages dont load at all.

Downloading is fine, infact while i'm typing this i'm downloading a file @ 70kbps (i'm on 600k).

Playing any FPS game has become impossible. Every 5 or so minutes i get a lag spike; my ping shoots up to 200-300 and i cant move, shoot or anything. Its as though my connection has been paused. Then after about 20-30 seconds it goes back to normal (pinging around 15-50 and running fine, then it happens again a few minutes later).
With DAoC the same thing happens after being logged in for 5 or so minutes, except after the "lag spike" i just get disconnected from the server. It doesnt reconnect me to the game and let me carry on, like in FPS games.

These are the results of my speed test:

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:14:43 GMT
1st 128K took 1703 ms = 76965 Bytes/sec = approx 640 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1828 ms = 71702 Bytes/sec = approx 597 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1844 ms = 71080 Bytes/sec = approx 591 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 1796 ms = 72980 Bytes/sec = approx 607 kbits/sec

By the way, i'm connected by an ethernet card. I'm in Worthing, West Sussex.

Please, for the love of all things good.....help!

your area overloaded maybe? could possibly cause ping spikes if bandwidth is close to capacity
Post some traces to the gaming servers

albone · 12-09-2003, 20:02

Quote:

Originally posted by towny
It might be worth trying changing your internet settings to use a proxy server (or change to a different proxy if you're already using one). Dupre posted a how-2 in this thread.

I treid this the other day after getting tired of some pages refusing to load while others seemed fine ... haven't had a problem since.

tried that not a success worse if anything so I'l just have to bare it for now!