View Full Version : Packet Loss / Gaming : East Midlands/Leicester
Hello, from Leicester
got packet loss to gaming servers across Europe, XS4ALL in nl etc.
is choppy gameplay in quake 3, red lines on lagometer everywhere
uk servsers are fine though
I have tournament game in 1 hour can it be fixed ? :confused:
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I have tournament game in 1 hour can it be fixed ? :confused: :td:Unlikely, if uk servers are ok then it's not going to be an ntl problem, but a uk-us link problem. Can you post a tracert ?
thx for reply.
seems its fixed now, just 2hrs too late :(
Over the last 2 weeks I have been getting really bad pings on game servers at peak times. It never use to do that. 700+ ping on CS and UT2k4.
NTL service really is terrible. To be honest I cant see them lasting much longer at this rate. I am currently waiting for BT to install a line so I can finally get away from the shackles of NTL and generally extreemly poor internet service. 5 engineers in the last year is all it took to get me to use pipex. I ant wait for it to activate :)
Ignition
08-10-2004, 13:13
Private message me some MAC or preferably IP addresses and will have a look. However I'll point out to you guys that for some Universitys the new semester started.. oo.. about 2 weeks ago?
Enjoy Thorny and God help you if you have to call their customer 'service' lines ;) If you ever email them ask for a receipt, if you are lucky 2 - 3 days later you'll get a receipt indicating 'deleted without read' :D
I dont believe this... I just wrote a long story about how this has been happening to me since 10-08-04, lots of text, blood, sweat and tears only for this forum to eat it all up in a error!
Anyway here's the short version:
- Problem started 10-08-04
- Tech support pinged the modem (my computer was off) and saw the problem
- Apparently the "Northwood" UBR is over used
- No ETA on when It will be fixed
- I'm NOT happy as I pay for this service for GAMING (cannot be done at peak times)
- I have cable tv on the same cable with a splitter (all installed by ntl, dont think this matters though)
Any help would be lovely.
Here ya go, hows this for S**t connectivity.
Im not uploading or downloading while I am doing this, I am monitoring my bandwidth at the same time to make sure there is nothing maxing my connection.
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=724ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=422ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=189ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=230ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=251ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=179ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=228ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=368ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=177ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=217ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=197ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=186ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=407ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=222ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=483ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=311ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=148ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=186ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=311ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=518ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=179ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=212ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=192ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=337ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.42.13.21: bytes=32 time=361ms TTL=56
Ping statistics for 212.42.13.21:
Packets: Sent = 46, Received = 46, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 12ms, Maximum = 724ms, Average = 192ms
This is a UK game server. Its not just this server, its the same on every single server at the time of this. So I guess its NTL.
Ill have my BT line next week but will have ntl aswell for another month. So I think ill go over my 1 gig a day cap a little :)
Ignition
10-10-2004, 19:33
Private message me some MAC or preferably IP addresses and will have a look.<snipped rest>
Muchly more productive than posting bloody huge strings of pings which don't get read (by me personally) anyway - the max, min and average bit is quite adequate ;)
Pretty please if you want this given attention give me a clue - there are plenty of uBRs in Leicester and I don't really have the time to look through all of them for overutilisation or imbalance.
Ignition
12-10-2004, 05:24
Thorny, you aren't in Leicester so probably different issue in your case.
In any case I have done some work on your connection, no overutilisation at all and the local network is good where you are, pings to your cable modem are sweet.
I've done a minor tweak, let me know how it runs, repeateded this in PM.
Patience is a virtue also, feel free to chase me up in PM as it's far more likely to get a quicker response and please remember I have a job and a family as well as cableforum so am not always on here as often as I'd like nor can I always work on issues quickly.
Thanks for taking a look.
Yeah 90% of the time its great pings and good connection. Its just that 10% when all the clan matches are and when all my friends play :)
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