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[13CentKiller]

Ok, here is the story.

I call my ISP tell him that the pings to all the servers I have been getting is well into the thousands! And maybe 600 to New Zealand servers I would usually have a ping of 44 to maybe 120.

They insist that everything is tickady boo on their end, and nothing appears to be 'wrong' as such on my end, I just have really big PINGS.

I have a PING of 44 to 76 doing a trace rout and ping to the ISP's IP. Then I Ping discovery and the area where the server is located. I get around 355 to 376, but when I go into Freelancer, low and behold it indicates a wonderful ping of 1830, then I refresh a few times, and it drops to a steady 800. Like there is a difference!

I ping Aussie Call of Duty servers at 640 to 800 and New Zealand servers in general at about 630. I use Speedtest.NET for my speed tests. I get a ping of 120 from a wellington server that is 50 miles away. yet the Auckland server, that is about 80km away gives me a ping of 600+

I have done the following things:

-Disk Cleanup
-Defrag
-Windows Network repair
-WinStockXP network service repair tool
-Virus removal (Avast Pro, Spybot, Ad-Aware Second edition)
-Router restart (left for 2 minutes)
-Router clean out (Dust removal)
-Switched ports with connection cable

To try:

*Windows Repair
*Format (NOOOO!!!!)
*System Restore (Never works)

I have a 256k connection I am caped but have used about 1MB of my 300 per day.

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Should have a PING of around 120!

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Ahh! the COD Server is my next door neighbour!!

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Any help would be gold to me!

Cheers:cool:

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[Stratus]

Two things.

Whos your ISP?

And

Get CoD4

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[looqas]

To eliminate one very remote possibility (from the cuckoo box kind of far fetched possibility) that the slowdown happens in your machine.

ping the 127.0.0.1 (that is the ethernet card aka local host in your machine) and if it's anything but <1ms then you might want to report back here and well see about that.

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Flying under radar.

[Ion]

let me guess... rural telecom?

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[13CentKiller]

My ISP is Actrix Networks, a New Zealand Internet Service Provider.

www.actrix.co.nz

Call of Duty 4 sucks, I bought it and sold it immediatly after installation basicly.

I got an average of '0'ms on the system ping thing.

Cheers :cool:

EDIT: PING hit an average of 1600 for New Zealand servers. Instead of 600.

*I completed Windows repair.

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[Monk]

Sounds to me like there is a problem with your line in the neighborhood. I have a transformer right on top of my line outside and occasionally, usually when power usage fluctuates in my area, my internet completely goes kaput. Might wanna tell those corporate monkeys to send a tech over.

[13CentKiller]

Dough! :rtfm:

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:angry::angry::angry:

This was after my repair. Like it did any good. Probably undone the things I did in the first place.

*sigh*

The 2 mega bit plan with 300MB a day gives me 10 times what I have now, for 10 bucks more then I am paying, making it $49.00NZD per month. Not sure if this will fix the problem though:(

Cheers.

EDIT:

@ Monk: We have had some power fluctuations recently. Very recently. And my exchange is right outside my front gate, so I will inform my ISP, ASAP.

:D

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[looqas]

If you know the IP address of your modem then ping it. I doubt there's the problem.

That ping even to your own ISP sounds extremely high. Get on the phone and start shouting.

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Flying under radar.

[13CentKiller]

Oh I shouted alright!

QUOTE: Mike:

"We can't just tell Telecome that one of their exchanges are screwed. Because they will come back and say, ummm....No."

They need Trace routs and evidence over a 24 hour period.

In other words, see you in a week :sleep:

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[13CentKiller]

Well, looks like others within the communitie are having problems as well. But they are with Xtra and Slingshot (other ISP's in NZ)

SO its on Telecoms end. :sleep:

Or our exchange in particular. My ping seems to have droped from 1800 to 800 to about 375 to 450, which is almost normal.

I had a ping of 56 on a New Zealand Call of Duty server this morning. So thats a good sign.

Cheers :cool:

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."