ping times for CS:S over a second!

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Rollux

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#16648 21-Oct-2007 13:14

I've had CS:source for a while and been practicing with the cpu bots for a while to get the hang of it. I've had enough of that and now what to start playing online. However, my ping times are amazing - between 1.5 to 2 seconds, not milli seconds. As you can understand, it's not actually possible to play with these times. Any suggestions as to what I can do about this? I'm just going thru the server list provided by steam. Network specs are
Asus Wifi card
TP link router
D Link ADSL modem
Xtra Go plan (3gb max download, 128kbps up)
Antivirus disabled
Located in Wainoni, Chch

I realize that with a Wifi connection it will slow things a bit, but I didn't think it would be that bad.

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#91843 21-Oct-2007 13:20

Remove the wifi card, that should hopefully half your ping.

Are you running a firewall? Have you tried forwarding the appropriate ports? That will quite often help drop your ping by around 100ms.

Also, your low upload speed might be a problem here?
Where are the servers located that you are playing on?
Have you tried playing on local servers, ie based in NZ or ASU?

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#91846 21-Oct-2007 13:34

Are you using local servers or international ones? When looking for servers click on the PING column to sort by this and try to connect to the ones with the lowest values - or are you doing this already?

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#91849 21-Oct-2007 13:49

rscole86: Remove the wifi card, that should hopefully half your ping.

Are you running a firewall? Have you tried forwarding the appropriate ports? That will quite often help drop your ping by around 100ms.

Also, your low upload speed might be a problem here?
Where are the servers located that you are playing on?
Have you tried playing on local servers, ie based in NZ or ASU?

Can't rmove the wifi card - is the only connection i have. (house only has one phone jackpoint, and it is at the other end of the house)

All firewalls (part of antivirus & windows firewall) are disabled.

I have only tried the servers in the steam server list, sorted via latency. I will see if I can find some local ones. Know of any to try?

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#91850 21-Oct-2007 13:52

Is there a firewall in you router?

Have you tried forwarding the ports?

Have a google, see what you can find.. I am not a CS player so I am not sure.

Though I did find this in a few seconds.

http://css.setti.info/googlemap/map-servers.php

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#91851 21-Oct-2007 14:07

Is anything in your house sending data upstream?

When playing TF2 I noticed anything over 10k/sec upstream on ADSL will kill my ping. Sending 4MB's of emails kills my game ;)

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#91852 21-Oct-2007 14:23

cranz: Sending 4MB's of emails kills my game ;)

LOL, and it probably kills my interwebs too, thats a lot of email!

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#91957 22-Oct-2007 21:23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTg9mbHjkdk

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#92468 26-Oct-2007 00:22

yeah, its your wifi and upload.

buy some internal ph extension cabling and extend the router or whack a hub in and run cat6.

128 up is doable but its on the edge. if your background it uploading anything. you'll fell it.

seriously it wont be fun. pwnzord

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