Huge Packetloss

[Randy]

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I have a question.

I have a framerate of at least 80 -85 most of the time. I am on a cable
modem. While playing a game, I tried deathmatch and ctf, I can have a
ping as low as 45 and as high as 75. While playing these games, I get
spikes of packetloss. Sometimes it gets as high as 704! Most of the time
it is 3 or 5. What is causing this? Is it my computer?

I'm running a 1.6ghz amd 1 gig ram 5200fx ultra vid card, very tweaked XP
(see the tweakxp website). I've also tried using Memturbo to prevent any
leaks.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[ME]

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Randy wrote:

>
> I have a question.
>
> I have a framerate of at least 80 -85 most of the time. I am on a cable
> modem. While playing a game, I tried deathmatch and ctf, I can have a
> ping as low as 45 and as high as 75. While playing these games, I get
> spikes of packetloss. Sometimes it gets as high as 704! Most of the time
> it is 3 or 5. What is causing this? Is it my computer?
>
> I'm running a 1.6ghz amd 1 gig ram 5200fx ultra vid card, very tweaked
> XP (see the tweakxp website). I've also tried using Memturbo to prevent
> any leaks.
>
> Any ideas?

It could be your router. Do you have a broadband router? If so, does this
same problem happen if your computer is connected directly to your cable
DSL connection?

 

[Guest]

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:25:18 -0500, "Randy" <randy1640@cox.net> wrote:

>
>I have a question.
>
>I have a framerate of at least 80 -85 most of the time. I am on a cable
>modem. While playing a game, I tried deathmatch and ctf, I can have a
>ping as low as 45 and as high as 75. While playing these games, I get
>spikes of packetloss. Sometimes it gets as high as 704! Most of the time
>it is 3 or 5. What is causing this? Is it my computer?
>
>I'm running a 1.6ghz amd 1 gig ram 5200fx ultra vid card, very tweaked XP
>(see the tweakxp website). I've also tried using Memturbo to prevent any
>leaks.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks.

Packet loss is usually a problem in the route between you and a server
and not a problem with your equipment. Is it inbound or outbound
packet loss? Do you get it to all servers or just some servers?

 

[Guest]

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"Randy" <randy1640@cox.net> wrote:
>I have a framerate of at least 80 -85 most of the time. I am on a cable
>modem. While playing a game, I tried deathmatch and ctf, I can have a
>ping as low as 45 and as high as 75. While playing these games, I get
>spikes of packetloss. Sometimes it gets as high as 704! Most of the time
>it is 3 or 5. What is causing this? Is it my computer?

Try running Ping Plotter (from, appropriately enough, pingplotter.com)
and see if all the routers between you and are passing the traffic
along. I used it to great effect to prove (*) that my cable modem
system was having all sorts of problems. FOR ME, DSL is much better.

(*) Proving it to the cable folks would have required their having a
brain to share between them, so when DSL arrived I jumped ship ASAP.

--
William Smith
ComputerSmiths Consulting, Inc. www.compusmiths.com

 

[Guest]

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<William P.N. Smith> wrote in message
news:f48r80pdvo19iilimthmejc42m18uva032@4ax.com...
> "Randy" <randy1640@cox.net> wrote:
> >I have a framerate of at least 80 -85 most of the time. I am on a cable
> >modem. While playing a game, I tried deathmatch and ctf, I can have a
> >ping as low as 45 and as high as 75. While playing these games, I get
> >spikes of packetloss. Sometimes it gets as high as 704! Most of the
time
> >it is 3 or 5. What is causing this? Is it my computer?
>
> Try running Ping Plotter (from, appropriately enough, pingplotter.com)
> and see if all the routers between you and are passing the traffic
> along. I used it to great effect to prove (*) that my cable modem
> system was having all sorts of problems. FOR ME, DSL is much better.
>
> (*) Proving it to the cable folks would have required their having a
> brain to share between them, so when DSL arrived I jumped ship ASAP.
>
> --
> William Smith
> ComputerSmiths Consulting, Inc. www.compusmiths.com

I have diagnosed many routing problems with similar software and with
similar results: absolutely nothing. It's easy to find out where the problem
is occurring but almost impossible to get anybody to fix it, particularly if
the problem isn't with your own ISP.

--
Cycho{HHR}
http://home.rochester.rr.com/cyhome/