My internet blows.

[Buckethead 1]

Recently, I've been having some really weird internet problems. This happens almost all of the time at night and sometimes during the day.

 

When I join JB, I connect just fine on the loading screen. When I see the game and the big join message, my ping is 200+ and I can hear voicechat just fine. My ping drops really fast to the normal 29. I can spectate, fly around, and see the game/hear voice chat perfectly fine. However, when I try and do almost anything (move my character upon spawning, send a chat message or just look around), my ping jumps rapidly to 55+, the game freezes and all I can do is hear voice chat. When my ping decides to stop flipping out, I can do stuff normally again for a bit and my character sort of "respawns" where I was when I started lagging. I say "respawn" because my character seems to fall an inch above the ground and I get my knife back as if spawning."

 

I'm pretty sure that this isn't the JB server. I think it's either my modem (these things like to be replaced every year or so) or my ISP (they might just love giving me the finger and lagging me out at night).

 

So... what do?

 

1. Raise hell to my ISP

2. Buy another modem from my ISP and pray to god that fixes things

3. Cancel my ISP and TV providers (Donet and Time Warner respectively) and switch to AT&T TV and internet so that I can have all of the same TV channels and features and have 8 times the internet download speed for the same exact price.

 

I'm feeling the last one :P I have friends in my area with AT&T who all have amazing internet (I've tested it myself).

[McNeo 3]

Go to speedtest.net and pingtest.net and run test... report results here.

 

That sounds like an upload problem opposed to a download problem.

[Buckethead 1]

I've checked my internet on a program that works with the driver of my wireless card and I've seen frames drop during these times dramatically. Usually I get about 70+ frames being sent and received successfully every second, but when it's bad, it seems to be less than half of that.

 

I just ran this and it seems to be working about average.

 

On this site, I usually have around 40ms ping, 1.4mbps download, and 0.4 upload.

 

Never ran on pingtest, but compared to yours in your signature, mine doesn't seem too bad.

 

 

EDIT: I got on JB right after this and I was having problems, even with the test results looking good.

I checked my frame counter and I had lots of fails and losses. I do agree that this seems like an upload problem.

[McNeo 3]

Your pingtest isn't bad. No packet loss is good, 11ms jitter is getting iffy but it's okay.

 

Your internet speed is on the low side. Not sure what speed you're paying for but I'm guessing it's DSL service?

 

I'm not sure what the recommended speed is for gaming.

 

Try this...

 

Create an autoexec.cfg (If you're not sure how, read THIS.)

Put the following into the autoexec:

 

>cl_cmdrate "100"
cl_updaterate "100"
rate 100000
cl_interp 0
cl_interp_ratio 1

 

You can type "net_graph 3" in console to open your network information, it will display in the lower right. All those numbers mean something but I'm not exactly sure unless I read up on them lol. But that information can be helpful, maybe somebody else has some input on that.

 

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We could run through some hardware troubleshooting too. First let me know if you have DSL or cable and we'll go from there.

[Buckethead 1]

I have DSL. I think now the problem could be that it's either the fact that my bunk is made out of metal and is blocking my signal or it's my wireless card. I have a Rosewill with 3 external antennas.

[GanjaMonster 5]

mine was shit it kept dying out loosing connections and when i bought a new modem it fixed the problem

[Neo 0]

My school internet is absolute shit. So don't worry I know how you feel!

[Buckethead 1]

I'm going to try my Xbox on wifi and see if there are connection problems.

If not, I'd assume it has to do with my computer, which is running off of the wifi from my DSL.

[GanjaMonster 5]

it might be ur wifi card getting old try running a cable to it and see if that will stop the problem

[Buckethead 1]

My room is across the house from my router/modem :| I just got this wifi card too. My Xbox wifi is working fine, so that could be the case...

[Otherworldly 2]

It does blow...it blows..

 

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[Buckethead 1]

+1 Jay Naylor signature

 

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I think I found the problem! I did some Googling and decided to close the Ralink manager program that works with my wireless card. Its only use is really to see your internet connectivity status and how it's doing. This can be done in CS:S with the console command McNeo mentioned earlier. I got on CS:S and had no problems! :D So I guess it was software interfering with hardware.

[GanjaMonster 5]

return it and get a new one and then well see if it was it