999 ping in game
petemyster
Join Date: 2007-10-31 Member: 62782Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Unplayable lag</div>I was really looking forward to playing this but haven't been able to due to lag. When I join a game I am stuck on 999 ping whatever server I go on. My computer is in a DMZ on my network so I can confirm there is nothing whatsoever that could be blocking the connection. I play CSS and other source games online completely fine, just not this game.
Does anyone have any advice? I am on W7 64bit and my router is a Technicolor TG582n
Does anyone have any advice? I am on W7 64bit and my router is a Technicolor TG582n
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Also to get a more accurate reading of your connection and the server tickrate you could use the following command in the console (~ key)
net_stats
type it again to disable it once more
Well that is another issue entirely, if the other person on the network is completely saturating your connection then it could indeed be an issue. I guess you could use <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/</a> to test to see if you still have sufficient network bandwidth available whenever it happens
I have to use a wired connection to my router to avoid the problem. I think it's something with my USB dongle and router that causes some kind of bottleneck or update problems. (Using a Belkin N wireless dongle and a Cisco-Linksys WRT54gl with DDWRT firmware). I've tried millions of things to get it to work well but to no avail. It's just certain games for some reason...on a 16mbit down and 5mbit up connection...can download and stream anything great.
Games like TF2, Counter-Strike, AvP, League of Legends, work great on my wireless with no issues.
Just a suggestion in case you are on wireless.
Someday I'll fix my problem, but it hasn't bothered me too much. I used to have crappy netgear and a different usb dongle awhile back and never had issues like this. So it could be a combination of the hardware I'm using.
I don't really know how to interpret these results. Is it my connection that is being temporarily dropped for those brief moments?