Ping, Choke, And Netgraph Questions

taboofires

<div class="IPBDescription">is this normal?</div> First, my specs: Halflife retail running on a 1.6gHz P4 windows XP box with a fairly new ATI graphics card, running at my current graphical settings with an average of 70 fps. I've also got cable service, and on a good server usually have a 50-100 ping.

My settings:
rate is about 7500
cl_cmdrate 40
cl_updaterate 25
cl_resend 2
cl_cmdbackup 2

Now, on to the issue. On a server that I play on all the time, and get about an 80 ping, I get a steadily increasing "choke" in net_graph 3, which only goes back down once I stand still for a while. Also, with netgraph 2, the very bottom graph (cmdrate I think) has a red dot, blue dot alternating pattern.

Does anyone else ever see this, or have any idea what's causing it?

FireStorm

yellow = the server is sending too much packets (decrease rate)
red = packet loss
I think blue is the amount of data sent or something like that.

DaK_mAnIak

Does choke cause your computer or connection (im not sure which) to skip for a few seconds? I have found that my choke can approach the 50's-70's when my comp is running slow. When this happens I usually begin to get connection problems and my comp will freeze for a couple of seconds. Is this just a coincidence?

T_RAT

what does the cl_resend 2 do?
or cl_cmdbackup 2 ?


Do these help balance out?

Syclone

your rate is too high ... blooming 5000 - 6500 should do you fine just cos ur on cable doesnt mean more = better.

taboofires

resend and backup help to prevent packet loss.

NeoMatrixj2

try lowering cmdrate alittle. cmdrate is the amount of times you want the server to send you data per second. updaterate is (correct me if im wrong) the amount of times you wants your computer to send data to the server (it also affects the rate at which net graph updates) try cl_cmdrate 35 and cl_updaterate 40 or 45.