Tek-Almighty June 19, 2006 Share Tek-Almighty Member June 19, 2006 I don't know what is up lately, but for the last 4 weeks, my ping to Nep. has been pitiful... Sometimes it coincides with a slowdown in general for my ISP, but sometimes it is completely "baseless." Anything going on lately with servers? For instance...many times, (before) my ping to Nepenthe was 30-50...really good! (one reason I joined!) Lately my ping has been 120-200...LAME! It isn't my machine either, b/c I've done bandwidth and game server tests on 2 sep systems in same house. Prolly my ISP, but just asking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wentz June 19, 2006 Share Wentz Member June 19, 2006 To my knowledge we haven't had any problems whatsoever. Gotta be on your end.. do a tracert to the server to see where your route is crappin out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill June 19, 2006 Share Flitterkill GC Board Member June 19, 2006 Really snds like a router along the chain to our server has taken a dump on you - pings are fine - no problems otherwise on this end. Yep - tracert and see whats what. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty June 19, 2006 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member June 19, 2006 Really snds like a router along the chain to our server has taken a dump on you - pings are fine - no problems otherwise on this end. Yep - tracert and see whats what. -Fk Don't know how to do that...is that a prog? TracerT? I've been running SpeakEasy's bandwidth test, and most times my slowdowns with net coincide with server probs...but sometimes not...that was why I was puzzled. I suppose I should give Mediacomm high speed an ear-full, but I doubt they give a crap bout me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill June 19, 2006 Share Flitterkill GC Board Member June 19, 2006 Assuming you are running Win XP... Start button run type in "cmd" then return (no quotes of course) then tracert 72.51.60.245 Then let her rip This will display all the routers you travel through to reach our UT server. Cut/copy/paste however in a post here - we will interpret. Or, if that is too much, get this for free PingPlotter http://www.pingplotter.com/ Enter our server ip in and again, let it rip -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus June 19, 2006 Share Primus Member June 19, 2006 I was having prblems for a bit there also but called up SBC and found out I had a big chunk of cable they had to replace. Like about 6 or 8 feet worth. All good now and I'm back to good pings and no PL. Server gets a little choppy when Wentz hops in, and Ive asked him to turn off his hax but to no avail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannon_Fodder June 20, 2006 Share Cannon_Fodder Member June 20, 2006 Really snds like a router along the chain to our server has taken a dump on you - pings are fine - no problems otherwise on this end. Yep - tracert and see whats what. -Fk Don't know how to do that...is that a prog? TracerT? I've been running SpeakEasy's bandwidth test, and most times my slowdowns with net coincide with server probs...but sometimes not...that was why I was puzzled. I suppose I should give Mediacomm high speed an ear-full, but I doubt they give a crap bout me. Oh no!!!! Not another Mediacom victim!! I've spent many hours on the phone fighting with them. Here in the extreme western Chicago suburbs Mediacom is growing faster than their network can handle. They've been beefing up things to handle telephone service but not as fast as they should be. Pingplotter as Flitter describes is a good resource because you can monitor your pings over an extended time. Without fail every time Mediacom came out response was fine as they showed up early in the day. Having some Pingplotter log files was good proof that there were bad times for sure. Also, you can ping different sites. If pings are fine to something like yahoo but bad to Nepenthe it's hard to blame Mediacom. I believe I there was a small fee for Pingplotter. If you have a router in the house you might try bypassing it and connecting directly to the cable modem. There has been more than once something with my kids PCs was stealing all of the bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty June 20, 2006 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member June 20, 2006 So far...i've been both impressed and depressed by mediacom. When they doubled our bandwidth for same $$ I was happy. Then, two months later, when you could never get those advertised bandwidths, I was ticked. I've tried two diff routers and then none at all, when I have these probs...so I am pretty sure it is mediacom. I will try the ping plotter thing...tonight if possible. Seems to me that whenever I really want to play UT and ppl are on the server, then my ping is awful. I haven't had a game in like 2 weeks...I'm dying! I will post this again tonight when it is time to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean June 20, 2006 Share Unclean Member June 20, 2006 Alt+printscreen will just get a screen capture of the current window. Saves a little time. And sorry to hear about your ping troubles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wentz June 20, 2006 Share Wentz Member June 20, 2006 That tracert looks good, are you sure you don't have your rate set to dialup settings in UT? Didn't you tell me you just fixed your computer and had to reinstall UT?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty June 21, 2006 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member June 21, 2006 Sorry, was gonna reply but eating dinner...at crucial moment...and drinking 40's... Used to drink the heck outta some red bull malt...blech. neways.. I was playing tonight, with you guys, and about 8:10 pm, ping drops from 40's into low 100's...I ping several sites and have noted that it all drops... I kept a ping log using that proggy yous guys suggested (pingplotter) and I have proof. I will do this for several nights...cuz this is a PITA. I also have pingplotter set up for google.com and even that ping is teh suckage. My theory is my new ghetto-a** neighbors are bit-torrenting to their hearts content...sucking up my precious bandwidth. Time to cut their cable... I have dynamic netspeed setup in UT and my default is cable/dsl...I'm not that much of a dummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox June 21, 2006 Share appalachian_fox Member June 21, 2006 Just a quick how-do-you-do... You can use pipes with the Windows command line to send results elsewhere, like to a text file for example. If you want the tracert results in .txt format, tracert [server] > [filename] It will make a text file in the directory that you run the tracert from (on Windows XP, usually c:\documents and settings\[username]\). If you specify a path, you can put that text file anywhere. Now, it may look like the program has frozen...that's because it's still running and writing to the file. Just give it some time and then, tadaa, text file with your results. Cut and paste at will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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