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liamcadhain:
Hi again, not sure if this is the right thread or not. If not I apologize.

Lately (as in the past month), I've been having some serious issues with my ping whilst playing GES. It gets abnormally high about 99% of the time, sometimes latency hitting about 700ms. Other times it looks ok from the server menu but in about a minute after I join it just shoots up again.  ???

For example, I joined a local server (based somewhere in Europe) where my latency was 49ms and within minutes it shot up to 340ms seemingly out of nowhere  ???. This happens of course to other servers on a much larger scale as my ping is higher on US servers anyway.

I must admit I haven't the greatest internet setup as regards to speed (1mb broadband is unfortunately my limit), however this never affected my ping in the past or indeed in other online games so I don't see how it should now. Furthermore I don't download whilst playing the game and I don't have any other programs running in the background (apart from Anvira Antivirus) that could be eating away at system memory.

So, I'm swamped! I really don't know what to do other than contact my service provider and ask them, but I want to rule out all other possibilities with GES first before I do so. Anyone have any suggestions? I really need help with this as I literally can't play GES properly anymore without an acceptable ping  :(

Mangley:
Well it wouldn't be GE:S.

Do you have a wireless connection or a router?

liamcadhain:
Its not a wireless connection anyway. I do however have a switch connected to my main PC which is also connected to a HomePlug which essentially enables me to connect to the internet from anywhere in the house via another socket and HomePlug. I set this up myself about 2 years ago though and its never given me trouble apart from now.

As for my ISP, I'm not sure what kind of configuration they use. All I know is I'm getting a broadband signal from my neighbours via an outside reciever, from there a cable runs right back inside into my PC and.....yeah thats it really.

My brother has been back home from college now for the past few weeks and we've been sharing the bandwidth (i.e he's on a HomePlug and I'm on the main PC). While it does affect speeds, I'm fairly sure its got nothing to do with the excessive ping as we've had the same scenario over Christmas and GES worked fine then.

So........yeah, sorry bout the long reply, lol 

kraid:
You should make sure there is noone downloading stuff from the web, especially the self updating crap steam does once in a while for it's games.
I think it's possible to disable the auto update though.
Also check if there's someone stealing you bandwidth if your WLAN is enabled and doesn't use encryption or only WEP.

liamcadhain:

--- Quote from: kraid on January 29, 2011, 01:39:36 pm ---You should make sure there is noone downloading stuff from the web, especially the self updating crap steam does once in a while for it's games.
I think it's possible to disable the auto update though.
Also check if there's someone stealing you bandwidth if your WLAN is enabled and doesn't use encryption or only WEP.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, Steam gets a lot of updates from HL2 DM and TF2 from time to time but I tend not to play GES whilst these updates are downloading. Also my brother doesn't really download much stuff at all tbh, just light web browsing (Facebook and stuff). Tonight, I'll try keeping him off the network whilst I play GES but I think I tried that before and I remember it not working plus you also have one pissed off brother shouting in your ear all the time (not good) lol, xD

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