Coping With Lag Spikes

Decimator

<div class="IPBDescription">sigh...</div> Some of you might remember my post about how Qwest causes lag. Well, it's gotten worse; today NS was nearly impossible to play because of the spikes every ten seconds or so. So I was wondering: are there any setting I can change to help me cope with these spikes?

A note on the severity of these spikes, today I was playing on elastical gomez and my ping was everywhere between 30 and 1200...

edit: name of my nemesis

DeepShadows

better computer
better connection
closer server
more tacos <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Decimator

No, it's not the server, it happens on all of them...every single $%&%^ one!
I currently have a wireless internet connection, which works quite nicely for downloading things, but is constantly causing lag spikes ingame. The only other connection I can get where I am is a modem, which is starting to look more and more attractive. My comp handles ns quite well, it's the connection that's the problem. You can't get much closer than a ping of 30.... And I fail to see how tacos would help, unless I offered them to Qwest to put better routers in.

Decimator

*bump* Anyone at all? Please?

Silicon

New ISP, qwest is known for their bad networking <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

2of12B0RG

Call your phone company and demand DSL. Before you say "Hell, they won't listen to me etc. etc. yadda yadda...."

I did it for a year straight. Almost daily calls until these lame sumbitches finally got DSL. I was their first customer. Although I've had better DSL in different places that I've previously lived, it's fine. MORAL OF STORY = ****, WHINE, COMPLAIN... You WILL need these 3 skills to get through later stages of life. And if done often enough, they usually produce results.

darwins_little_helper

...at least you don't have Adelphia cable...I live in southern california my lowest pings are 350+ from CANADA!!!!!... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

Kid-A

Noone else is dling while you are on the network. I had a similar problem for ages then realised housemates had set kazaa bandwith to 'unlimited'.

Also try 'broadband reports' search on google.

Pa1adin

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I live in southern california my lowest pings are 350+ from CANADA!!!!!...  <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Canada has some nice servers/Networks

MrKNifey

I love my Comcast broadband connection........used to suck but for some reason it got better. Nothing but average 50 ping in every server. Bit expensive though, even when I save $10 a month on it because I also have their cable TV, since I don't own the modem. Oh well, I be happy.

Yeah, you're probably better off getting another ISP. I used to have AOL, but I got mad because it kept disconnecting me when I was galavanting around back when CS was still good.

BentRing

You say you have wireless internet. Wireless in what form? Satillite internet or wireless from a land line in your town. Or do you mean you have a wireless ethernet adaptor?

If you have satillite internet I'd have to say that would be the main problem. A friend of mine has that and he actually would be lots better off playing fps games with a modem.

Decimator

It's wireless to a land line from a home hardline network, there is noone else using the network while this happens, there aren't any other broadband providers in my area, and I'm a mile and a half too far out for dsl. I may have found a solution: Is there any way to lower the packet size in half-life?

Unknown

<!--QuoteBegin--Mr.KNifey+Aug 28 2003, 06:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr.KNifey @ Aug 28 2003, 06:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I love my Comcast broadband connection........used to suck but for some reason it got better. Nothing but average 50 ping in every server. Bit expensive though, even when I save $10 a month on it because I also have their cable TV, since I don't own the modem. Oh well, I be happy.

Yeah, you're probably better off getting another ISP. I used to have AOL, but I got mad because it kept disconnecting me when I was galavanting around back when CS was still good. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Same here. Everyone said Comcast "stinks" (for lack of a censored word), but I find it better than AT&T's Roadrunner internet. I always got mad with Comcast and AT&T cause I kept on getting disconnected, but I found out it was our modem power cables. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Bosnian_Cowboy

It is best to use All Seeing Eye to set your settings up based on the connection it detects. It gave me a better ping and less lag spikes.

Vahn_Paktu

Look at some of the webbed tech support threads. The tweaking ones near the bottom.

Decimator

Well, I looked at the tweaking guides, but even even tweaking my rate down to that of a 28.8 modem didn't fix the spikes. What helped a little was to raise my upload and download rates (don't remember the exact commands, different comp) to 100. This helped make the spikes last less time, but it's still bad.