at my wits end please help - Page 2

dafry · 11-04-2007, 11:13

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Originally Posted by Paul

So you are blaming VM for your lag when playing online? Think your problems are more widespread than that as lag affects a lot of people on different ISPs. Just because your friends can host it doesn't mean that at certain times of day they do not suffer any lag. Hosting 5 people on a limited upload bandwidth will cause issues fullstop. Is anything else running on the network while you are connecting for a game and have you tried a hardware reset on the router to make sure no settings are getting in the way that shouldn't be there. Odds are it is just a congestion problem in your area and that you have people in your geographical neighbourhood that like to P2P a lot.

my friends do experience lag from time to time, but minimal, the main guy we use for hosting now is in canada and has the same speed as i and can host up to 14 people no problem.
i have nothing else running when the 360 is on, and i have reset the router and even upgraded to the best possible one i could find.

videodj · 11-04-2007, 12:14

I have 10Mb and can Host games fine on Rainbow six for 14 players. Some times there is a little lag, you will find that there tends be a lot of lag problems between the UK and the US. Hence I very rarely play a game hosted from the states.

I think your wrong to blame VM though if up and down speeds are good then the connection is ok. Online gaming can be a pain some times.

dafry · 11-04-2007, 12:20

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Originally Posted by videodj

I have 10Mb and can Host games fine on Rainbow six for 14 players. Some times there is a little lag, you will find that there tends be a lot of lag problems between the UK and the US. Hence I very rarely play a game hosted from the states.

I think your wrong to blame VM though if up and down speeds are good then the connection is ok. Online gaming can be a pain some times.

thanks for the reply, glad you can host, im pretty sure that when i host it's all english. the lag is terrible people cant move, have no guns are invisible, its not even a jerkin about thing. again i am hoping that when the 20meg comes it will sort it.

dafry · 12-04-2007, 10:35

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Originally Posted by dafry

thanks for the reply, glad you can host, im pretty sure that when i host it's all english. the lag is terrible people cant move, have no guns are invisible, its not even a jerkin about thing. again i am hoping that when the 20meg comes it will sort it.

ok i have done speed tests solid pretty much for the last day and in the day they are fine last night at 8.00pm it dropped to 1.2 meg at 9.00 it dropped to 875.the upload remained between 450 to 470 please could you advise me if there is anything i can do about this?

Chris Davo · 12-04-2007, 10:44

I doubt it, there is always slower speeds at peak times sadly.

dafry · 12-04-2007, 11:00

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Originally Posted by Chris Davo

I doubt it, there is always slower speeds at peak times sadly.

surely it shouldnt drop below 1 meg tho? do you think it wii be any better when the 20 meg comes in or will it be the same?

jailhouse · 12-04-2007, 13:23

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Originally Posted by dafry

surely it shouldnt drop below 1 meg tho? do you think it wii be any better when the 20 meg comes in or will it be the same?

At least Blueyonder had a guarantee for connection speeds! Doesn't seem to be honoured by VM. I think the 20Mb will be the same "Virgin Propoganda", if they cannot get you 10Mb for the price you are paying now what chance do you think they will have of maintaining a 20Mb service?

All in all, seems like NTL by another name!

jh

dafry · 13-04-2007, 16:42

could somebody please tell me is it the download or upload speed that could affect hosting ? as i am hearing conflicting things. my upload never really changes its the down that jumps around

Richy99 · 14-04-2007, 10:26

i wld have thought upload due to you are hosting the game, people are retreiving data from your connection which is uploading to their machine

MovedGoalPosts · 14-04-2007, 11:37

Upload and download are important. If your download is congested you won't be receiving in a timely fashion, the information packets telling the hosting machine where everybody is. Thus it can't upload information in a timely manner telling the client gamers what's happening.

Speeds available do drop significantly in the evenings as more users tend to be on line at those times. Your connections are contended (shared) so what one person is doing immediately affects another. This tends to be compounded on the 10 meg level where the heaviest users will congregate. However a drop to that level is I would have thought unacceptable and extreme. You need to be complaining, forcefully, to VM so they budget for increased capacity in your area.

As a temporary measure, it might be worth experimenting by dropping your connection to the 4 meg service?