Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

[Doogie.Howser.MD]

OK, i've been having a few problems with my ping periodically shooting right up to 5-600, then settling back down. this causes me to be kciked from servers too often.

the only fix i've found so far is to not use a static IP address. Can anyone shed any light on why this might be?

cheers,

[Sir. {RF}TFS]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

Have you tried a spy-ware scan mate . We've had a few regulars with similar problems . I'm not saying that you're a muppet and haven't tried it yet but just a suggestion

[Talus]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

Try downloading the pingplotter trial from www.pingplotter.com and doing a traceroute to the IP of a few Battlefield 2 servers.

It should show you where the problem is...if there is one.

[Doogie.Howser.MD]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

yeah, i spent ages trying various things to sort it out.

no spyware or viruses found with spybot, adaware or hijack this maybe something nasty that these couldn't detect?

it could have just been coincidence that it cleared up when i changed from a static IP.

i can't work out why it would make any difference but it's the only setting i changed my end and the problem cleared.

[Talus]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

When you say 'static IP', are you talking about setting your IP address, gateway, and DNS addresses manually in the TCP/IP configuration screen for your NIC instead of 'Obtain an IP address automatically'?

And did you TRY some tracerouting yet?

[Doogie.Howser.MD]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

tried traceroute - no problems

yes, i mean changing FROM a static IP. after i let windows assign me an address and turned on the DCHP setting on the router all seemed to be well.

maybe it was just ISP problem that happened to clear when i changed the setting

[« R²» P§I]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

tried traceroute - no problems

yes, i mean changing FROM a static IP. after i let windows assign me an address and turned on the DCHP setting on the router all seemed to be well.

maybe it was just ISP problem that happened to clear when i changed the setting

I have the same identical problem.

I'll stay at a nice ping 50-80, then i get those ping spikes.
I have tried a reformat, running with out the router, have no hidden Trojans/spy-ware, trace routes do fine to the BF2 server i play on. I have called and called my ISP and talked to them over and over until I am blue in the face. It's weird, all this happen when i installed the 1.12 patch and so on.

I can not figure out this for the life of me. Its really frustrating when trying to fly. Getting those ping spikes kill me every time.

What ISP do you have and where you located?>

As for ping plotter i have that but I am unsure what I am looking at for results.

[Talus]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

Basically you are looking for huge SPIKES in the ping graph or large red bars indicating packet loss.

You can then actually see the IP address of the machine where this is occurring, do a WHOIS on them from within ping plotter and send off an e-mail to their NOC and even attach the data as summary text or as a graph pasted straight from ping plotter.

[« R²» P§I]

Re: Ping shooting up? getting kicked for high ping?

Basically you are looking for huge SPIKES in the ping graph or large red bars indicating packet loss.

You can then actually see the IP address of the machine where this is occurring, do a WHOIS on them from within ping plotter and send off an e-mail to their NOC and even attach the data as summary text or as a graph pasted straight from ping plotter.

Well all stayed in the green , its just like the rest of the test i have ran :cry: