pings?

[mark ilford]

hi all, sorry if this has been discussed before but i couldnt see it. does anyone have trouble with pings or lag on games. im on 50 meg if it helps

[mark ilford]

hello anybody here (echo echo echo echo) guess not lol

[icestar2]

To answer your question yes I have. Especially on COD games for some strange reason. Part of the reason I dont game online much on my PC anymore. Used to play all the time and had a great connection. One day it just went poor but fine for downloading, surfing etc etc.

Had an engineer out who said he changed the sig level's. Looked after he went but he had not. Couldn't be bothered to keep going back and forth so just gave up :(

[mark ilford]

cool, I heard they can change your path or something to improve ping times. Any idea if this is true? My ping times are worse on cable than thro bt line

[suggsy]

Slightly off topic. but how do you get 67.30 Mb/s with a 50 mg connection?

[mark ilford]

if you do a speedtest on ps3 its very jumpy and spikes up sometimes to these figures. on laptop its usually 35-45 Mb/s

[icestar2]

cool, I heard they can change your path or something to improve ping times. Any idea if this is true? My ping times are worse on cable than thro bt line

Your best chance is posting on the newsgroups. Some very helpfull people over there.

[mark ilford]

I may sound stupid here but how/where do i go to get on these news groups? I heard they're good

[icestar2]

I may sound stupid here but how/where do i go to get on these news groups? I heard they're good

Dont sound stupid at all. If you dont know about something that does not make you stupid :) Anyway follow the following link's and it will explain it to you :)

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/cable/newsgroups/setting-up.php

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/cable/newsgroups/using-outlook-express.php

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/cable/newsgroups/listings.php

[mark ilford]

thanks icestar2, i'll have a go now

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A problem already. For some reason i dont have outlook express! is it downloadable?

[icestar2]

thanks icestar2, i'll have a go now

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A problem already. For some reason i dont have outlook express! is it downloadable?

There are other clients you can use to read newsgroups but if you have IE then you should have outlook express anyway. What windows(assuming you are using windows) and what web browser are you using ?

[mark ilford]

I have an acer laptop with vista home and i use google as my browser via internet explorer.

[icestar2]

I have an acer laptop with vista home and i use google as my browser via internet explorer.

Its windows live mail in vista.

[Ben B]

It's called Windows Mail on Vista, virtually the same program.

[icestar2]

It's called Windows Mail on Vista, virtually the same program.

My mistake. Dont use Vista so going by whats said on the M$ website.

[mark ilford]

thanks for your help guys i'll have a go with that

[icestar2]

thanks for your help guys i'll have a go with that

Not much help there but should help you along a little m8. Sorry I dont use vista so not to familiar with Windows mail but I've read its not to diffrent from Outlook just more features.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-GB/Help/b4a4891c-4498-4e22-b35d-44bf32d916d41033.mspx

[mark ilford]

it says it dont work with http things like hotmail which is what my e mail address is, i'll have a play and prob make a new microsoft email account lol

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ok im almost done now but need a little help. what address do i put in when it asks for news (NNTP) server? i tried news.virginmedia.com but that just come up with thousands of peoples names???

[Ben B]

On that list there is one called virginmedia.support.broadband.cable that's the one you need to go on.

[mark ilford]

i wrote a thread so i'll see if anyone replys now. thanks guys

[suggsy]

if you do a speedtest on ps3 its very jumpy and spikes up sometimes to these figures. on laptop its usually 35-45 Mb/s

Ok cool, thanks, i was starting to think i could get more speed lol

[mark ilford]

no one ever replied to that thread on newsgroup but my broadband has stabled a fair bit now. once in a blue moon its really bad and laggy and dont let people join my lobby on a game, leave it for a day tho and its ok again.

[caph]

Out of interest what are your pings like? Mine were diabolical until the upgrade to DOCSIS 1.1 and now I'm getting an average of 13ms to London which I'm more than happy with.

[mark ilford]

on average my pings are about 33ms which is ok although when I was with BE I would get 10ms constantly.