I've been having no luck connecting to Bigdy for the last 2 days, on account of my ping. Every other server (in other games too) works just fine, but for both the small and large server I never get a ping under 350 (=kick).

 

I thought it may have something to do with the undersea cable crisis, but I live in Auckland NZ (and as I said, everything else works fine). What gives?

Ok, the really weird thing is that I don't seem to actually lag at all.

try joining the gamearena server

try joining the gamearena server

 

That also gives me a high ping.

i to have the mystery ping problem neftaly , i normally see a server ping of 100 - 140 before i join and ingame i ping at about 111 - 100 . now before i join i see pings ranging from 350 - 600 and in game imm pinging between 300 - 500 . wtf is going on , im starting to get just a little bit angry . my missuss told me im acting like a kid without a toy , or some sort of junkie going through withdrawls . help me someone . however i can play texas and battlearena ? ping at 220 in those servers .

Edited February 6, 200817 yr by Jthn

Heh, I know the feeling champsky. I'm going to ask my ISP (orcon), though it looks like optus (AU) is to blame:

 

C:\Documents and Settings\user>tracert optus.net.au

 

Tracing route to optus.net.au [202.139.146.70]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms http://www.routerlogin.com [192.168.0.1]

2 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms 60.234.8.17

3 * 31 ms 31 ms ge-0-3-0-200.cr1.nct.orcon.net.nz [60.234.9.1]

4 56 ms 55 ms 55 ms 203.21.31.121

5 57 ms 56 ms 55 ms so-3-0-0.XT1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.133]

6 56 ms 55 ms 54 ms so-2-0-0.BR1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.122]

7 559 ms 554 ms 525 ms atm3-1-0-2.sn1.optus.net.au [202.139.18.17]

8 475 ms 499 ms 522 ms ge-wan8-1.ue2.optus.net.au [61.88.221.175]

9 503 ms 533 ms 529 ms 202.139.144.52

10 * * *

Yup! sounds like something has gone bad in the net connection between NZ and OZ.......

 

Bummer!

that is confusing me , youre in auckland eh , im in whakatane , i see slavak in there and hes from christchurch pinging away happily still . maybe its a north island problem , dunno but sure is annoying . i managed to get a round in this arvo though , my ping was fluctuating more than usual though . im with ihug . however i can surf the net at good normal speeds , use australian yahoo as homepage and no probs there

Edited February 6, 200817 yr by Jthn

ring your isp sounds like the best option

try playing on other GSA servers to see if its any thing to do with PR

i to have be getting kicked for my ping only over the last 2 days. fine in COD4 and TF2. i with ihug and in timaru.

Edited February 6, 200817 yr by Silent

Where's Psyrus? He always seems to figure sh*t like this out.

 

He got a knack with internetz that young man.

well im in Chch which is a differnt line to the north islanders and im can play PR but my ping going every where but i got a weird internet plan though

It sounds like you guys should be lodging tickets with your respective ISPs.

 

I've trawled the internet news sites and a few NZ ISP status sites and everything says it's running normally. I don't keep up to date with the NZ broadband situation, and I don't know if you have a monopoly supplier of backhaul... it seems that Telstra have their own links... and asianetcom appear to be the alternate route... Sorry

 

Anyone having problems should try these three trace routes:

 

tracert 203.59.24.221 (NZ -> WA)

tracert 203.13.37.40 (NZ -> SA)

tracert 74.125.19.99 (NZ -> US)

 

It will show if there's any one link common to all your connections that is causing the issue. Perth -> NZ ping is fine for me (<100ms) so I don't know what it is.

 

Should look like this:

D:\Documents and Settings\Trev>tracert www.ii.net

 

Tracing route to www.ii.net [203.59.24.221]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [10.1.1.1]

2 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms nexthop.wa.ii.net [203.59.14.16]

3 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms gi2-4.per-qv1-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.4.34]

4 14 ms 12 ms 12 ms gi9-46.icp-qv1-core2.ii.net [203.215.4.8]

5 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms www.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.221]

 

Trace complete.

 

Tracing route to jwbox.gamingsa.com [203.13.37.40]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [10.1.1.1]

2 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms nexthop.wa.ii.net [203.59.14.16]

3 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms gi2-4.per-qv1-bdr1.ii.net [203.215.4.32]

4 71 ms 68 ms 68 ms gi0-15-1-0.syd-ult-core1.ii.net [203.215.20.2]

5 101 ms 100 ms 99 ms te0-13-0-0.syd-stl-core1.ii.net [203.215.20.129]

 

6 100 ms 100 ms 101 ms gi0-3.ade-pipe-bdr1.ii.net [203.215.20.71]

7 101 ms 100 ms 100 ms gi0-2.ade-pipe-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.20.136]

8 98 ms 99 ms 99 ms AS9556.adelaide.pipenetworks.com [218.100.3.16]

 

9 99 ms 98 ms 98 ms g0-2.busco1.adl1.adnap.net.au [219.90.143.170]

10 101 ms 101 ms 100 ms jwbox.gamingsa.com [203.13.37.40]

 

Trace complete.

Tracing route to www.l.google.com

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [10.1.1.1]

2 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms nexthop.wa.ii.net [203.59.14.16]

3 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms gi2-4.per-qv1-bdr1.ii.net [203.215.4.32]

4 69 ms 69 ms 68 ms gi0-15-1-1.syd-ult-core1.ii.net [203.215.20.4]

5 75 ms 69 ms 68 ms Gi11-2.gw2.syd1.asianetcom.net [203.192.136.197]

 

6 69 ms 69 ms 68 ms gi3-3.cr1.syd1.asianetcom.net [202.147.40.145]

7 226 ms 225 ms 225 ms po8-0.gw2.sjc1.asianetcom.net [202.147.50.157]

8 227 ms 227 ms 227 ms 72.14.197.37

9 * * * Request timed out.

10 228 ms 230 ms 234 ms 209.85.251.94

11 228 ms 228 ms 227 ms cf-in-f99.google.com [74.125.19.99]

 

Trace complete.

 

------------------------

 

Here are a few traces to various parts in NZ:

 

Tracing route to telstraclear.co.nz [202.78.133.58]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [10.1.1.1]

2 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms nexthop.wa.ii.net [203.59.14.16]

3 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms gi2-4.per-qv1-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.4.34]

4 70 ms 70 ms 69 ms gi0-15-1-1.syd-stl-core1.ii.net [203.215.20.66]

 

5 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 0.ge-0-0-0.GW5.SYD4.ALTER.NET [203.166.90.157]

6 69 ms 69 ms 79 ms 0.ge-6-1-0.XT4.SYD4.Alter.Net [210.80.34.77]

7 94 ms 93 ms 94 ms 0.so-0-0-2.XT2.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.50.242]

8 94 ms 95 ms 94 ms so-2-0-0.GW2.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.150]

9 93 ms 92 ms 93 ms 203.21.31.170

10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms ie1-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net [203.98.50.1]

11 95 ms 96 ms 95 ms ge-9-0-927.u11.telstraclear.net [218.101.61.5]

Tracing route to 60.234.8.17 over a maximum of 30 hops

 

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [10.1.1.1]

2 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms nexthop.wa.ii.net [203.59.14.16]

3 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms gi2-4.per-qv1-bdr2.ii.net [203.215.4.34]

4 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms ge1-0-1.per-qv1-bdr3.ii.net [203.215.4.21]

5 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms asianetcom.ix.waia.asn.au [198.32.212.64]

6 115 ms 65 ms 64 ms ge-2-2-0-0.gw4.syd1.asianetcom.net [202.147.40.1

13]

7 65 ms 66 ms 65 ms gi3-3.cr2.syd1.asianetcom.net [202.147.40.149]

8 89 ms 89 ms 89 ms so-0-0-0-0.gw4.akl1.asianetcom.net [202.147.55.2

53]

Edited February 6, 200817 yr by Husker

Psyrus,

 

I'm sure the people you are trying to help out here will thank you,but I'd just like to say its great to see people helping each other out in the forums....

 

I get all warm and fuzzy when I see that...

 

....Do you dream in 1's and 2's yet......,

... i see slavak in there and hes from christchurch pinging away happily still...

 

Palmey North mate. I've noticed a few spikes but mostly my pings stable and happy. I see you trying 5-6-7-8 times to join but never staying for more than a few seconds. Poor champsky

Psyrus,

 

I'm sure the people you are trying to help out here will thank you,but I'd just like to say its great to see people helping each other out in the forums....

 

I get all warm and fuzzy when I see that...

 

....Do you dream in 1's and 2's yet......,

 

It's always my pleasure, if someone has the ability to help others they really should

 

Dreams... not so much... nightmares... quite a lot w/ the programming and failing classes Managed to scrape by for 5 semesters now, with 3 more to go... and now it gets hard... I have PLDC (Programming Language and Design Concepts ewww) and FCS (Foundations of Computer Science)... so yeah, gonna be working my butt of this semester. I'll still make time to maintain the ladder though... you won't see me in game much tho

Heh.. I sat more than my fair share of supplementary exams to get by - long as you scrape through!

A 4 year course? What distinguished letters you gonna get for that? .. and will it look as good as your Heli and Medic badges ;o)

It's just a double degree of Bach Business Admin & Computer Sci... diversity, baby!

 

Business degrees are so nice and cruisy, don't do anything all semester and you end up with a distinction. Study for the final and High D is (almost) assured [except business stats... wow was I terrible at that, even though calc was a breeze!)... comp sci on the other hand...

 

:blowup:

 

This is probably going a little off topic, so I'll leave it there

Yeah same prob here Champsky, I can play in texas, but not aussie,...strange

Yeah same prob here Champsky, I can play in texas, but not aussie,...strange

 

driving me mental decafe , lucky ive got something to smoke or i would of lost it completely . i managed to get in there yesterday for a round though ? at least all is not lost i can still get on servers halfway round the world . psyrus i appreciate your help but all those numbers and that is wasted on me mate , it may as well be algebra . i thought it may be a packet loss punkbuster f**k up manually reinstalled and updated to no avail .:blowup:

well ive found that my ping is gone horrible from its natrual 120 to 200 and i can play some times but i got to make sure no one else at my flat it using the internet.

that means logging off my mates computers

Well why isn't anyone posting their traceroutes so we can get to the bottom of this?

 

Do this:

 

Start Menu > Run > "CMD"

 

Type: tracert Ip addresses

 

Right click and select "Mark"

 

Highlight the whole area of text you want copied

 

Right click again while text is selected.

 

ctrl-V into the reply

Tracing route to gamingsa.com [203.13.37.56]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms 17 ms <1 ms mygateway [10.1.1.1]

2 54 ms 60 ms 60 ms lo1.akl-grafton-bras1.ihug.net [203.109.128.90]

 

3 52 ms 51 ms 48 ms gi2-31.akl-grafton-bdr2.ihug.net [203.109.129.10

2]

4 52 ms 56 ms 51 ms 203.110.1.9

5 52 ms 52 ms 51 ms so-3-0-0.XT1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.133]

6 52 ms 48 ms 51 ms so-2-0-0.BR1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.122]

7 330 ms 356 ms 375 ms atm3-1-0-2.sn1.optus.net.au [202.139.18.17]

8 487 ms 501 ms 506 ms 61.88.243.185

9 437 ms 418 ms 421 ms 61.88.243.185

10 437 ms 412 ms 424 ms adaminternetptyltd.o5rxc76f000.optus.net.au [59.

154.56.2]

11 489 ms 505 ms 522 ms g0-1.busco1.adl1.adnap.net.au [219.90.143.166]

12 559 ms 556 ms 591 ms bf2stats.gamingsa.com [203.13.37.56]

 

Trace complete.

 

 

thats to GSA site

Alter.net is verizon and from what I understand they are going all crazy with routing due to the cable crisis.

 

Is it possible to take the high-ping autokick off the servers temporarily, please?

Tracing route to gamingsa.com [203.13.37.56]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

7 330 ms 356 ms 375 ms atm3-1-0-2.sn1.optus.net.au [202.139.18.17]

 

thats to GSA site

 

And obviously Optus' links have been utterly screwed! I just jumped on the optus network in Australia and it seems fine:

 

6 71 ms 70 ms 98 ms ge-wan8-1.ue2.optus.net.au [61.88.221.175]

 

But again, that is a different state and different medium it seems... mine's on the GE (presumibly Gigabit Ethernet WAN) versus yours is on the old ATM style... I'm not huge on the backhaul layers but I'm led to believe they are different

 

iHug are owned by Vodaphone who use the Optus network (or are a subsidiary of Optus... I can never keep track of who owns who anymore) and thus would obviously be using their international connectivity.

 

It would be interesting to see if someone who is with an ISP that uses the Alter.net link but then doesn't use optus for the bridge to an Aussie POP.

 

Alter.net is verizon and from what I understand they are going all crazy with routing due to the cable crisis.

 

Is it possible to take the high-ping autokick off the servers temporarily, please?

 

The reason I'm skeptical about it being AlterNet's fault is because my route to NZ went through their link and I came out with <100ms so it would point away from that, unless they were deprioritizing outbound traffic :wacko:

 

Plus, would you really want to play PR @ 500ms ping? That would be unbearable.

 

---------------------------------

 

I'm pretty sure it's the Hop that goes from AlterNet -> Aus POP that is causing the headaches, because NZ have their own links to the US/ASIA as far as I know, and thus the non-australian latency would not be affected.