Latency Question thats really ****in me off.

[sCribes]

I recently bought BF2142, and it seems to be a pretty decent game once some of the bugs get fixed.

I am having trouble with latency though, to the point i want to throw the game away.

Im talking about bandwidth latency here, not video lag.

When im viewing the servers from the client, they show 50-80ms ping times. But once im in the game, it goes from 200 - 900 consistenantly, making it impossible for me to play the game online. Ive been in maybe 40 servers in the last 2 days, and all acted the same.

I can play other games like cs:s and hold a steady ping on a server across the country from me at 50-60ms.

Im really confused here, ive eliminated my router, same thing happens. I can loop a ping to a server and it stays at 50-60ms, but when i go in game, it goes crazy.

Im getting really really desperate here. lol

Heres my computer specs.

Processor: Intel Core 2 6400@2.13GHz
Memory: 2 GB 533MHz / 1GB matched.
Video: 256MB ATI Radeon X1300Pro
Drives: 160GB Sata

I have a 1mb down / 1mb up wireless internet connection.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

Try this.....

Join a server, and note down the IP address... Before you join, go back to your desktop, and open a command prompt, and enter "tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" but DONT hit enter yet.... Go back to you game, join, and wait for the lag. Once you get the bad spikes, alt+tab back to the command prompt, and hit enter, and let it do its thing...

After that completes, Get out of the game, and try the same tracert command. Copy & paste the info it give you here.

Note, if server IP is 10.10.5.25 then the command would look like:

C:\>tracert 10.10.5.25

 

[Law]

If you're trying to play a game like BF2142 on a wireless connection, that's a pretty bad idea considering how unreliable wireless connection can be.

 

[sCribes]

Tracing route to 4d.21.344a.static.theplanet.com [74.52.33.77]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 32 ms 40 ms 16 ms gct11-1.gctel.net [66.234.116.1]
3 38 ms 22 ms 28 ms gct07-249.gctel.net [66.234.112.249]
4 32 ms 26 ms 26 ms 65.183.229.229
5 44 ms 30 ms 21 ms core-gre1.mhd.702communications.com [65.183.242.
197]
6 25 ms 39 ms 36 ms edge-gre2.mhd.702communications.com [65.183.242.
202]
7 33 ms 47 ms 48 ms 12.118.96.29
8 65 ms 85 ms 65 ms gbr2-p100.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.193.158]
9 74 ms 67 ms 59 ms tbr2-p013602.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.11.53]
10 60 ms 78 ms 64 ms tbr2-cl7.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.46]
11 64 ms 81 ms 79 ms tbr1-cl24.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.9.141]
12 67 ms 72 ms 69 ms tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
13 72 ms 82 ms 74 ms gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.173]
14 58 ms 64 ms 67 ms 12.119.136.18
15 66 ms 73 ms 68 ms te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

16 59 ms 57 ms 71 ms vl21.dsr01.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.67]

17 87 ms 64 ms 61 ms vl1.car02.dllstx6.theplanet.com [12.96.160.23]
18 64 ms 63 ms 71 ms 4d.21.344a.static.theplanet.com [74.52.33.77]

Trace complete.

 

[sCribes]

ping in game was 440 when i entered, and the 736 when i disconnected. I ran the tracert while the game was still open and activly connected.

 

[sCribes]

the thing thats getting me is the fact that this and bf2 are the only games that are affected by this. Which makes me think its something to do with the software, but i cant imagine how since theres 100's of thousands of people playing this game

 

[sCribes]

If you're trying to play a game like BF2142 on a wireless connection, that's a pretty bad idea considering how unreliable wireless connection can be.

Yeah, i understand that, but no other games are affected by this. I actually work for the isp, its a smaller rural telco, my throughput is always on par, and i almost never expeirience outages or downtimes, or overpopulated lines.

I also just ran ea's UO app, to the server, shows me as a 72ms ping.

 

[sCribes]

constant ping yeilds

avg 59ms
loss 0%
packets 1000 (i stopped it at 1000)
best 54ms / worst 154ms

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

What kind of router and adaptor are you using for your computer? Is the router running the most recent (Stable) firmware? Is the wireless adaptor (USB, or PCI?) running the latest drivers as well? Have you ensured that any firewalls on your PC are turned off?

If you can, try to wire the PC to the router and see if there is any change in the issue... if there IS, then it is obviously something to do with the wireless component...

 

[sCribes]

I have gone as far as eliminating the router all together. I have always been directly wired into the router, its a wifi router, but the wireless is disabled on it as of right now.

My drivers are all on par, no firewalls on.

ack..i contacted ea, i hope they get back to me.

Thanks for the suggestions though.