Unusual Lag.

[DirectHit]

I experience un-usual lag on a medal of honor server that's always had my ping in the high 40's to low 50's and all of a sudden the past 2-3 weeks my cousin and myself have had pings shoot up from 50 to 100+ and it's really upsetting. Comcast likes to say it's not them is there anything I can do?

Newly built system, 512 Ram 2.8 GHz p4 ht, GeForce FX 5900 XT

Cable 3MB Connection.

[Vampiel]

If it hit both of your computers then likely it's a routing issue if you both have the same provider. You can download NeoTrace Pro (http://www.download.com/NeoTrace-Pro/3000-2648-7139158.html?tag=lst-0-1) and type in the ip address to the server to see were in your routing the problem is. Then call the ISP, tell them the information you get from your trace and complain enough, they might do something about it, but doubtfull.

[Dennis Bacon]

it is probably the server...

[DirectHit]

The Computers aren't routed, I just use the direct cable. It's not the server because thats the server I play on (clan) and I've never had anything like this b4

[rraehal]

If you use the internet your computers are routed. A router connects different networks. In the IP world a different network is a (computer/sytem) with a different IP address and/or subnet mask.

Example:
67.112.35.128 must (use a router/get routed) to 192.168.0.100

For me to reach google from my PC, I use 14 or more routes. I must go from our internal network to our ISP where our VPN takes me to our corporate office. The first 10 routes are our ISP, our corporate ISP, and our VPN tunnel. It shifts to give us the highest speed through our providers and our access time is 174ms or less across the USA.

All internet computers are routed. Try Neotrace and you will see how many routers you hit before connecting to the game server. There could be a bad or poorly configured router along your path now causing your slow access to suddenly appear.

[Vampiel]

Thanks rraehal for explaining it. Goto the link I provided and type in the ip address of the server in neotrace.

[rraehal]

I do not know the address of the server he is trying to connect to or even the text name. If that could be provided I could tell the numbe rof routes from here to there. I could also check to see if one has a slow response. My readings would not give an accurate picture because he will not take the same route as me.

[DirectHit]

No Packetloss...

IP: 69.31.7.217

[rraehal]

From my office I lost 100% of the packets to that IP address. I tired NeoTrace and tracert and ping. I think our network has all echo requests shut down to help prevent virus like welchia and blaster from scanning for network hosts to infect. Maybe they are shut off for another reason - either way it won't work.

Neotrace took three routes to the address. tracert took over 20 hops before I killed it. I must try this from home where I can perform echo requests.

[Vampiel]

Go to list view and look at the ping times. (default is map view)

[rraehal]

All my requests at work timed out. Echo requests get killed by our routers regardless of the program that makes them. I can not even retrieve names for routers/hops on the internet.

At home, my ping takes 109 to 124 ms.

tracert takes me over 14 routes. All my times are 90ms or less (most 57-65) until I hit eqxashva.aleron.net routers. The pings jump to 100+ with 120ms being the highest.

neotrace took me over 18 routers. The server itself had the highest ping of 131ms. At Atlanta on the map I started hitting 99+. The fourtheeth hop was eqxashva.aleron.net and the time was 116ms so it agrees with tracert.

Remember that the first two routes are my router and my ISP router. Neotrace counted my PC as a hop so I actually hit 17 routers with neotrace.