Skips in online BF2

[darksum]

ok so i just had adelphia come to my house and fix my cable line outside. so i play dod 1.3 for a while and it runs fine. no skips, no nothing. however, i started playing BF2 and every 10 seconds i would say it skips and i cant move or control myself, and sometimes ill get the 'connection error' message. the skips last at most 5 seconds, usually about 1 second. is it my cable modem? the router? my isp (which i dont think since they just replaced the line 3 days ago). very very frustrating issue, thanks in advance!

 

[darksum]

oh, and for BF2 single player my system runs flawlessly. i just want to know whether i should spend some $$$ on a new modem/router.

thx ^^

 

[Rommels]

Recenty, the past couple days I have had the same problem...only on servers with large amounts of people though...
But my computer and connection can easly handle 64 people as it has for months now...
I'm on IFITL too so my up/down speeds are always the same no matter what.
Plus nobody is even on my home network when I play and no other program are running or sucking away bandwidth as I monitor.

Anyways...

 

[JasonSix78]

What kind of ping are you getting while playing BF2 online? While in a server, hold the TAB key and look. If I'm in a server and anyone's ping is more than 100, it starts skipping and lagging a lot.

-Jason

 

[Rommels]

30ish.
Unless it is skipping...

This is something new, I have been playing on the same servers for months now and nothing till just a couple days ago.

 

[BadThad]

You need to do a trace route to figure out where the problem is. I've been gaming online for 6 years now and that's the only way to figure out the problem....because chances are it's not your equipment. 99.9% of the time it's a bad node in your path to the server, i.e. a saturated or broken internet router.

Such problems can cause really stupid routing. I've had it happen to me many times over the years. For example, I'm in Cincinnati playing on a server in St.Louis, a pretty straight shot by the way the crow flies. I once had my routing take me to Chicago to Florida to Columbus OH then to St.Louis! After logging a bunch of trace routes, I identified the bad AT&T backbone "node", reported it to my ISP and a few days later my ping went from 150+ to 30ms as my routing change to almost a direct shot to St.Louis.

 

[Spineshank]

Hmm i noticed this on CS last night. I have Comcast though and never had this problem. I was playing a new server so i thought maybe that was the issue but my ping was around 15.

 

[darksum]

well, what i did to troubleshoot was i took one of the computers off the router and ran 'ping -t www.espn.com' in cmd. i got about 5 request time outs in 2 or so minutes and a lot of spikes in the ms, so im going to get a new cable modem today and hope that it solves the problem!

the ping in the BF2 servers im on is normally about 50. so that shouldn't be the issue.

thanks for the help guys

 

[Rommels]

Yep, I did a traceroute to the server I was on and my ping was 37 all the way. Yet ingame I was hop jumping and skipping every little bit.
Thats why I found it so odd.

 

[Rommels]

I just happened to alt tab out and look at the ip's netlimiter was reporting that BF2 was using...
The server ip was shown but it was switching fast between it and another ip.

So I copied the ip and connected to another server, same thing, copied the ip, and repeated...
All the servers I connected to I use to get like 30 pings on no lag ever for months and months...
220.254.32.10
220.254.23.13
220.254.60.8
The post changed every time.
The tracerts and whois came up basicly the same everytime too...

Tracert...
1:7 msadsl-154-34-1.asm.bellsouth.net (68.154.34.1)
2:8 ms209.149.96.1
3:8 ms205.152.99.161
4:8 msaxr00asm-1-3-1.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.2)
5:8 mspxr00asm-0-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.0)
6:10 msso-1-0-0.gar1.Atlanta1.Level3.net (67.72.8.5)
7:10 msae-1-53.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net (4.68.103.65)
8:28 msae-2-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.128.201)
9:25 msso-7-0-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net (209.244.11.14)
10:27 msp16-1-0-3.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.9.161)
11:27 msxe-1-3-0.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.170)
12:82 msp64-2-2-0.r20.mlpsca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.10)
13:83 msxe-1-2-0.r21.mlpsca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.187)
14:212 msp64-0-1-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.206)
15:195 msxe-1-1-0.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.233)
16:194 msxe-0-0-0.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.verio.net (61.213.162.238)
17:209 msxe-2-1-0.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.verio.net (61.120.145.94)
18:---
19:---
20:---
18:0 msjanis220254060008.janis.or.jp (220.254.60.8)

Whois

inetnum: 220.254.0.0 - 220.254.255.255
netname: JANISNET
descr: Naganoken Kyodou Densan Co.Ltd.
country: JP
admin-c: CS375-AP
tech-c: RS222-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-lower: MAINT-JP-JANIS
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20040802
source: APNIC

person: Chiaki Sato
nic-hdl: CS375-AP
e-mail: domain-info@janis.or.jp
address: 1-25-1 Nakagosho Nagano-shi Nagano Japan
phone: +81-26-225-8162
fax-no: +81-26-225-8167
country: JP
changed: rsaito@nkd.nn-ja.or.jp 20021025
mnt-by: MAINT-JP-JANIS
source: APNIC

person: Ryuzo Saito
nic-hdl: RS222-AP
e-mail: rsaito@nkd.nn-ja.or.jp
address: 1-25-1 Nakagosho Nagano-shi Nagano Japan
phone: +81-26-225-8159
fax-no: +81-26-225-8167
country: JP
changed: rsaito@nkd.nn-ja.or.jp 20021025
mnt-by: MAINT-JP-JANIS
source: APNIC

I am gonna try blocking the ip range with peerguardian and see if it works, this is so annoying, even on an empty server where I used to ping 20 I can't walk 10 feet without lagging.