I have a pretty good speed cable modem (3M down 256 up) and have been having incredibly inconsistant pings lately (70-200 unstable) horrible loss (20-30) and huge choke spikes (up to 50). This has been happening off and on for about the last month, sometimes it will be good mostly it will be very bad as stated above. The last few days it has been bad pretty much non stop. Before this started happening I would always get about 25-35 ping, 0 loss, 0 choke....
I have run trace routes when things were going bad and I do not see anything out of the ordinary in them... I can post plots if anyone thinks that would help.
The internet bandwidth tests that I run, to a chicago server, almost always come out good (2700-2900 kbps down).
I am not running any other programs when I play.
I have tweaked my rates (updaterate, cmdrate, rate etc) back and forth a bunch to see if this would help... no combo I could find made any difference so I keep them at what worked before when things were running smooth.
I have run ADAWARE and anti virus to see if there were any of those issues but none made a difference and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
This started happening well after the switch to a2g, and things worked will on these servers in the past.
I am not the most computer savvy person in the world but I am out of ideas. Pretty much at my wits end. This situation has made the game pretty much unplayable...
HELP ME BEFORE I TYPE 'SUICIDE' IN THE CONSOLE!!!!!