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Strange latency problem

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pyrokk

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I have a really strange latency problem.

I'm trying to play battlefield 2, yet I have an extremely high ping. I'm on an 15mbit u/d university network, so I don't understand why it's doing this. When I ping the IP of the server with an MSDOS ping, it pings just fine (around 45 ms or so.) It was working a few days ago, but now it seems pretty pissed off.

This is probably related as well, but if I DL a torrent, and leave it going for a day (even with a low UL cap) it'll completely hose the internet on my machine for a day or more. (Though when that occurs, I can still ping stuff just fine, just won't be able to access anything.)

Ideas?
 
That's what I initially thought, but the problem got worse in the last couple days. I haven't used a P2P application for well over a week.

As I say though, I can ping stuff just fine from a command prompt. (usually 40-50 ms.) I can download just fine (stuff from microsoft at 1.8 mbyte/s)

Yet, in-game browsers report ping times 900ms+ (command prompt pings to the same server ip are 40-50 ms.)

In addition, i've changed my computer name, changed the port it's connected to, changed the IP, spoofed a different MAC, reset tcp/ip, reinstalled network drivers. With a different name, ip, mac, and physical port, I wouldn't think my computer would still be identifiable, which would seem to indicate that it might be a problem with my computer itself.
 
Originally posted by: pyrokk
That's what I initially thought, but the problem got worse in the last couple days. I haven't used a P2P application for well over a week.

As I say though, I can ping stuff just fine from a command prompt. (usually 40-50 ms.) I can download just fine (stuff from microsoft at 1.8 mbyte/s)

Yet, in-game browsers report ping times 900ms+ (command prompt pings to the same server ip are 40-50 ms.)

In addition, i've changed my computer name, changed the port it's connected to, changed the IP, spoofed a different MAC, reset tcp/ip, reinstalled network drivers. With a different name, ip, mac, and physical port, I wouldn't think my computer would still be identifiable, which would seem to indicate that it might be a problem with my computer itself.
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no, stop abusing the network. You are identifiable no matter what you do. They are much more knowledgible than you are.

Try to get around it all you want. Go ahead and try. This should be a wake up call to you.
 
Originally posted by: theorignalamdoverclocker
Its not abusing the network. If it was, I would HOPE the network admin would be smart enough to block game ports.
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meh, it's a lot more fun to make them tear their hair out wondering what's wrong as they hopelessly reformat their computers and spend countless hours on forums given lame brained reasons as to what is going on.

It's a lot of fun really, messing with them like this.
 
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