Very very bad lag

mattysouthall · 11-12-2009, 18:44

I have had this for a while now, everytime im in ventrilo i have 20 ping but say someone speakers, after a while i hear them, it comes up that they are talking in ventrilo but i don't hear them for a while, its random and sometimes, i had this problem on my old motherboard with gigabit ethernet but i now have a new motherboard same problem, i replaced ethernet cable, same problem and i use the wnr2000 netgear router didn't have this problem before with that router, i havn't upgraded firmware recently which have caused this problem either.

Now here are my signal levels in my modem, are they ok?

Downstream Levels:

Code:

Downstream Lock :  Locked 
Downstream Channel Id :  7 
Downstream Frequency :  339000000 Hz 
Downstream Modulation :  QAM256 
Downstream Symbol Rate :  5360.537 Ksym/sec 
Downstream Interleave Depth :  taps32Increment4 
Downstream Receive Power Level :  8.1 dBmV 
Downstream SNR :  40.3 dB

Upstream Levels:

Code:

Upstream Lock :  Locked 
Upstream Channel ID :  3 
Upstream Frequency :  34000000 Hz 
Upstream Modulation :  QPSK 
Upstream Symbol Rate :  2560 Ksym/sec 
Upstream transmit Power Level :  34.5 dBmV 
Upstream Mini-Slot Size :  2

Im confused on what it could be, here is the tracert for the ventrilo server:

Code:

Tracing route to vent16.gameservers.com [212.187.246.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     7 ms     8 ms     6 ms  10.34.0.1
  3    13 ms    12 ms    10 ms  osr01dudl-v11.network.virginmedia.net [62.31.176
.129]
  4    14 ms    11 ms    11 ms  osr01wolv-tenge71.network.virginmedia.net [62.30
.254.45]
  5     9 ms     9 ms    10 ms  man-bb-a-xe-212-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.1
05.174.145]
  6    34 ms    18 ms    19 ms  212.187.136.125
  7    18 ms    23 ms    19 ms  ae-4-4.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.133.102]
  8    49 ms    22 ms    20 ms  ae-1-51.edge4.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.74]
  9    18 ms    25 ms    18 ms  212.187.246.100

Trace complete.

But i get this lag on other ventrilo servers too, also when i say go to play Counter-Strike Source or games which query servers as a list COD4 etc.. it seems to overload and i can't join a game until a while, or if i say exit a game i can't login to Windows Live Messenger it says error connecting to network but current connections stay alive ie already connected to steam / ventrilo and work fine.

Im confused and lost!
Iv'e never experienced anything like this before?

If you need anymore info let me know.
Matt

mattysouthall · 12-12-2009, 14:18

Anyone? can anyone check my signal is it ok? im getting bad download speeds in steam now at 333kbps :S, im not capped i havn't downloaded today yet.

Toto · 12-12-2009, 14:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattysouthall

Anyone? can anyone check my signal is it ok? im getting bad download speeds in steam now at 333kbps :S, im not capped i havn't downloaded today yet.

I'm getting similar trace results as you, although for some reason the hop to my router isn't in the trace? Oh well.