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[Spastic Colon]

Big Brother is watching you!

Hope those pings stay good man!

[@n@rchist]

Its like i said, everyonce and awhile they spike up like that. Then they look nice like this.

[Spastic Colon]

Ok, so no software, current hardware obviously fine.

Time to start grasping for straws:

Have you installed anything, and I mean ANYTHING that is Magnetic, electro-magnetic, or could just plain interfere with the signal of the lines in your house?

Or, have you bumped, moved, kicked, slapped, Spilled beer on anything network related? (modem, cable, RJ-45 connector, router) ?

[@n@rchist]

Nope....Maybe there working on upgrading. I do have comcast.

[Spastic Colon]

You know, it has suddenly dawned on me that I'm ultimately HELPING you kick my butt. So, essentially, I'm kicking my own ass here.

[@n@rchist]

How do you figure?

[[USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt]

As for you, [USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt:

Perhaps you could give us some useful information, such as your Processor speed, video card make/model, did you install anything before this issue started, and your credit card #.

k here is my trace as of this afternoon (I did it twice just to be sure):


First try...
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 66.28.71.17
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms f1.ba01.b005948-0.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.21.185]
3 <10 ms 16 ms <10 ms p5-0.core02.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.37]
4 <10 ms 16 ms 16 ms att.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.10.142]
5 <10 ms 16 ms 15 ms tbr2-p012302.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.246]
6 <10 ms 16 ms <10 ms gbr5-p40.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.12.86]
7 188 ms 203 ms 219 ms ar2-p310.ocyok.ip.att.net [12.123.196.9]
8 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms 12.118.213.38
9 16 ms 31 ms 32 ms 24-117-168-163.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.168.163]

Trace complete.

Second try...
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 66.28.71.17
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms f1.ba01.b005948-0.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.21.185]
3 <10 ms 16 ms <10 ms p5-0.core02.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.37]
4 <10 ms 15 ms <10 ms att.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.10.142]
5 <10 ms 16 ms 15 ms tbr2-p012302.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.246]
6 <10 ms 16 ms <10 ms gbr5-p40.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.12.86]
7 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms ar2-p310.ocyok.ip.att.net [12.123.196.9]
8 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms 12.118.213.38
9 15 ms 32 ms 31 ms 24-117-168-163.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.168.163]

Trace complete.


Just before doing this I tried to get on the server and was pinging about 75... thats still ok for me to play normally, yet I'll still had people teleporting all over the place. My movement was smoth from my point of view and after asking, everyone told me they werent lagging...

Here are my laptop specs:

Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3400+CPU
1024MB (512 x 2) DDR-400PC-3200 Memory
Mobility 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
80GB 5400rpm ATA-100 HArd Drive

Notes: I havent uninstalled/installed anything on my laptop before or after this problem started occuring (this past Friday night). I havent dropped/spilled anything on my laptop or the modem/mouse ever. But, I have spoken very harsh words at my laptop over the weekend.

My computer was running fine in the server for a couple of weeks since I started playing here with normally a ping of 40-60 with the occational bad day of 70's with HPBers playing. MIRV camp over to my crib and we both played on moongamer w/ a router fine - no porblems. When he left he took the router with him and I played fine for prolly 6-7 hours fine on the server this past Friday. Then I took a break (for about 5 mins =D )and when I connected again this crap started to happen. My ping has still been what appears to be 'normal' (40-60's) yet everyone teleports around while I still run through the maps as I would under normal cirvumstances. Upon connecting to other CS:S servers, I have noticed the same thing happening on 3 others, but mostly everything runs fine with great ping and no lag on my end.

I have called my isp and trouble-shooted with them. Everything is is ok on our end. So I am concluding that the routing between me and the server somewhere is borked-up somwhere. Yet, my trace was all good when I first posted about this problem (see my initial post on page 1) and still is. WTF is going on??? I have performed spybot/ad-aware/norton/windows updates and scans, even done a defrag. Still the problem persists.

Please help. I r teh 1337 n3wb when it comes to computerish, moongamers is the only 41 player server that is well policed and has good ping without additional handcuffs (ie. no awp or automatic team select servers). I'm losing my mind without my daily moongamer dose. Ok, please excuse me, I have to return to yelling at my screen again.

[Spastic Colon]

@n@rchist:
I'm just teasing.

Damn, I just thought of this:
You said that your ping goes south later in the evening, right?
And you reset your modem every morning, right?

So, how's the area around the modem? Is there anything nearby that might be causing it to get a little warm, or overheat @ all?

And, just as an added kick, there's no flourescent lighting next to your modem is there? I've seen flourescent lights doo strange things to monitors, but modems might also be affected.

If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to jump in here.

[[USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt]

I'm just teasing.

Damn, I just thought of this:
You said that your ping goes south later in the evening, right?
And you reset your modem every morning, right?

So, how's the area around the modem?  Is there anything nearby that might be causing it to get a little warm, or overheat @ all?

And, just as an added kick, there's no flourescent lighting next to your modem is there?  I've seen flourescent lights doo strange things to monitors, but modems might also be affected.

If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to jump in here.

No, my ping is crappy ALL day/weekend long since Friday night (and still continues now), my ping 'seems' ok (displaying 40-60) yet everyone is not lagging and I am seeing everyone teleport around. My modem is about 2 feet from my laptop and about 4 feet from my LCD TV, the exact same place it has been since I first started playing here with no problems...

Oh yeah, there are no extraneous programs running when I try to play...

[@n@rchist]

Ok my ping doesnt just get bad at night. It happens just whenever. No lighting. My router is out in the open, so its nice and cool. My modem is the same way. I think im just gonna have to go off on my isp and get them to fix the thing. Because my um, my ah....business, yeah business needs the internet....

[[USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt]

oops, sorry anarchist thought you were posting to me... my bad

If this helps any, I've been running net_graph 1 and usually when I'm not seeing people teleport around my in is around 350-500 but in moongamers with all the lag I'm seeing it jump from around 1800's all the way up to 2800's!

[Lin]

Couple more things to consider for FighterPilot and Anarchist...

> any wireless connections here?
> is your vid card running on the most recent driver?
> are you running the most recent version of DirectX?

[@n@rchist]

No
Yes
Yes
I played this morning.(Which got me my first 255) And had a ping of 35 almost the entire tmie. I guessing its something with my ISP.

[Lin]

Another tip: when you contact your ISP, DO NOT say this is for a game. As one tech support person told me, they couldn't care less about gaming.

Instead, you're having problems with something financial or business related...

[@n@rchist]

Ok my ping doesnt just get bad at night.  It happens just whenever.  No lighting.  My router is out in the open, so its nice and cool.  My modem is the same way.  I think im just gonna have to go off on my isp and get them to fix the thing.  Because my um, my ah....business, yeah business needs the internet....

I know...

[[USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt]

Couple more things to consider for FighterPilot and Anarchist...

> any wireless connections here?
> is your vid card running on the most recent driver?
> are you running the most recent version of DirectX?

No
Yes
Yes

[General joe]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert 38.113.32.216

Tracing route to 38.113.32.216 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.204.96.1
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 68.87.148.205
4 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 10g-9-3-ur02.manchester.nh.boston.comcast.net [6
8.87.145.77]
5 11 ms 14 ms 12 ms 10g-9-1-ur01.manchester.nh.boston.comcast.net [6
8.87.145.113]
6 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 10g-9-1-ur01.nashua.nh.boston.comcast.net [68.87
.145.117]
7 11 ms 13 ms 11 ms 10g-9-2-ur01.lowell.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.87
.144.161]
8 13 ms 11 ms 13 ms 10g-9-4-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.8
7.144.157]
9 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms 68.87.145.246
10 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 12.125.33.33
11 14 ms 12 ms 15 ms gbr2-p60.cb1ma.ip.att.net [12.123.40.142]
12 15 ms 14 ms 16 ms tbr2-p012701.cb1ma.ip.att.net [12.122.5.65]
13 39 ms 36 ms 37 ms tbr2-cl5.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.10.106]
14 37 ms 37 ms 36 ms ggr2-p390.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.37]
15 37 ms 37 ms 38 ms p5-2.core01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.
205]
16 36 ms 37 ms 38 ms p12-0.core02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.
241]
17 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms p12-0.core01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.3
3]
18 49 ms 49 ms 50 ms 6T-1EV.demarc.cogentco.com [66.28.21.186]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 *

giberish

[Linux]

Also, if you have latency problems, make sure that computers arent bogging down your connections running P2P programs or spyware on those other machines. That has always caused lag for me when my sister is active on the internet.

[[USAF]FiGhTaPiLOt]

r0g3r th4t. Only my laptop in this apt.

I also just deleted the local CS:S game account from within steam and DL it all over, guess what? No luck, same lag problem... Geez!

I have noticed talking with him and I both in the moongamer server that his in is around 300's m/s while mine is around 2,000's to 3,500's m/s (we were comparing notes using net_graph 3). His ping was around 70-80 while mine was in the 40's. He was also specing me moving around and said it was smooth (just as I see it on my screen) with no apparent lag, yet everyone else was still 'teleporting' on my screen. WTH is going on?

*help me please!*

[Enforcer]

Hmph. Computers, supposed to do the same thing again and again right? Sorry yall having issues. Can't offer much in the way of tech support though..