Ping and Packet Loss

It can do. Might be worth messing around with your controller setup. My son always turns up the turning sensitivity so he can spin around really quickly. Sounds like an advantage, but then the downside is the cursor moves really fast across the screen. I know people who've put a bit of masking tape in the shape of a cross hair dead centre on their tv, just so when the screen is a bit manic the tape acts as a better visual representation of where you're aiming.

But theres nothing like a bit of practice, and at the risk of trying to teach you to suck eggs, I'd say go for the head shot each and every time. This works for pretty much all games (well apart from Gran Turismo etc!!), and will put you in good stead.

But dont despair, keep at it and things will get better.

 

I would take a serious look at your network setup with those stats.

I'm now on a fairly average line, not particularly close to my exchange, but I get around 45ms ping response with up to 10ms of jitter. And that's using pingtest and hitting a server >250miles away.

When I hit local servers <50miles away I tend to get more like 40ms pings and 0ms jitter.

First port of call I would say is to turn your router off, unplug it, hook it up to the main telephone socket (not an extension), in the UK these are called BT master sockets and are normally in stupid places. However this will reduce any internal problems to basically zero.

Ensure you have just your router connected, disconnect any telephones, fax machines, other equipment from your telephone line. Ensure the cable from telephone socket to router is fairly short as a long cable (above 3 metres) can have large detrimental affects on your line. Also worth trying a different filter, you possibly aren't using one given those results....which could be your problem. Connect a laptop to the router and try pingtest.net again to see if it's any better/different. The lower your ping and jitter the better.

If it's any different then the issue is internal to your property, post here if that's the case and we'll see how we can help you further. Otherwise it's gonna be a case of contact your Internet Service Provider and your telephone supplier and let them know you're having problems and ensure you let them know what you've tried to eliminate internal property issues.

 

The telephone infrastructure in Barcelona is at the similar level or if not better then that of the UK. Not sure what service speed you pay for but looking at the ping time I would say there's a problem between the exchange and your home. It's your ISP's responsibility to sort this problem. Hope they fix it fast for you, although from your above comment it doesn't sound like they will.

 

That's just fine! Nice fix Mr Robot!

 

What exactly did you do then?

That looks a lot better, now you're just left with a slightly sub-par upload speed.

 

The ping is much better wonder what the packet loss will be, probably zero now.

 

Should improve your gaming with less then half the ping and no packet loss. Might see you on tonight.

 

My son in his infinite wisdom decided to change the router yesterday. Its an Orange bright box. He also put a new filter on the line.
I played last night with no disconections but I was lagging really badly. Sometimes i couldn't move.
Tried a speed test this morning which shows this.


We cant get a faster service in our area, something to do with the wires into the estate. We also cant get cable in the area. I'm going to put the old Orange Livebox back in to see if the new router is to blame for my laggyness. Its always been slow but never laggy. Unless it was just a one off on the battlefield site?

 

Check for availability and register your interest might get lucky and get it soon

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=29017

 

Not available, nothing is on our estate.
According to the site, I should get :-
Between 1.0Mb and 4.0Mb
(Estimated speed: 2.5Mb)
Is that upload or download speed?

As my younger son has recently became a BT employee we can get broadband for nothing (I think). just havent got around to switching it yet.

just tried using google chrome and my PC browses a bit quicker.

 

Ace, as much as those speeds leave a little to be desired they are acceptable for gaming.

Proof was that your comms were working fine, comms being by far the most intensive in terms of how much bandwidth they use.

I would suggest going to pingtest.net and running a test there, speed isn't all that important, but ping is and it should give you a clearer idea of how good your line is.

 

Dosent mean a lot to me , but B* seems OK and a low jitter is a good thing?

 

Yeah Ace that actually looks alright there mate, good overall grade, excellent jitter rating and acceptable ping.

Perhaps try some other games online and see what they're like, it's possibly the old EA ports being shit on your router thing.

If your ports aren't correct it will cause lag like what you were seeing, I had the same issue with a router and manually setting up port forwarding on it fixed the issues I was having.

 

following on from the other thread about my battlefield conection. tried opening ports, disabelling media server. neither of which helps.we had a line check from bt a few years ago and it was fine. we are using orange internet but no other isp can offer a faster speed in my area. cant get infinity or cable. tried switching all wi fi devices off and disconecting all phones. still getting battlefield and indeed all other ea games lagging to the point where i cant actually move. have tried 2 routers both on wired and wireless. peak times i might as well just switch it off and talk to the wife and kids.