The title says it all. At PSL8 maps my ping is over 200 sometimes 300 or even 400, its really anoying. Also getting booted because of it. Help I have no idea whats causing is. :S

Cloud

Hi Cloud
Ok some back ground
1 Which PSL8 server dash's or NUTS!?
2 How fast is your internet connection? Dialup - dsl - cable?
3 where (generally) do you live East coast - West? Europe?

Things that will bog down the game
A) Busy computer or internal network (downloading music or auto updating etc)
B) bad hardware between you and the master server - call your ISP and ask them to trace route your connection
C) Some one else in the server has bad lag - sometimes this effects ppl - sometimes not
D) Viruses or spyware (makes your computer very busy) - get AdAware if on pc @www.lavasoft.com it's free for personal use

I'll check back

Last edited: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 2:01:59 PM

Well, I live on the West coast, Bay area, California, I dont know which psl8, but the one where all the oldtimers are on late at night. I have comcast, cable. It happend suddenly. It has always worked. I just cleaned out my comp, It bought the ping down like 30 to around 210 -230 it was around 250 before... :S

K Cloud
Do you have more than one computer in the house?
Turn the others off and try it.
Also heres a couple of other things you can do but if they dont work you have to call comcast

1.Try rebooting your cable modem - shut off all the computers (and router if you have one - unplug the power to the cable cable modem - wait at least 15 sec then powerup in reverse order
2 close your firewall
3. Replace your network cable

If one of these things works lemme know
Try them one at a time in order.
If it dont help then call comcast tech support and ask them to do a trace route
This checks the path from you to PSL8 and helps them to repair the problem if its at their end

Last edited: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 3:29:38 PM