connection slower than before

[snobee]

Hi there,

I have been playing Battlefield 1942 on the www.games.saix.net server (196.4.79.41). For a number of weeks, my connection during the game, would show 30 to 50ms. For over a week now, it has never been better than 90ms (no matter what time of the day or night I connect). The game also seems to jerk much more than before. Nothing seems to be wrong with other users, and I have also tried battlefield on another computer through the same adsl modem... same reduction.
No one else is using the modem, and it can't be traffic conjestion (always). I reinstalled the game again, which didn't help. I have the latest drivers/patches for sound, os, graphics, and recent 1.5 bf patch. I have three user accounts, and the same thing happens with all of them.
I don't see any difference with any other surfing or downloading, just while connecting to the saix server.
Any ideas?

 

[Andre]

Saix introduced a routing problem affecting Cape Town and Durban recently which they have just recently fixed.

Things should be back to normal.

Pinging sgs1.saix.net [196.43.3.36] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 196.43.3.36:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 30ms

 

[jgoosen]

Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS>ping 196.43.3.36

Pinging 196.43.3.36 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=549ms TTL=121
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=621ms TTL=121
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=415ms TTL=121
Reply from 196.43.3.36: bytes=32 time=599ms TTL=121

Ping statistics for 196.43.3.36:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 415ms, Maximum = 621ms, Average = 546ms

this is on adsl at 6.37Pm Today
There is no load on the line and this is what we getting

 

[Andre]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jgoosen</i>
Ping statistics for 196.43.3.36:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 415ms, Maximum = 621ms, Average = 546ms

this is on adsl at 6.37Pm Today
There is no load on the line and this is what we getting
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Ouch. I got about the same ping result from the office as my previous post. There was definitely something wrong from this morning till around about 3pm. It took Saix hours to even bother putting up a notice and hours more to fix it.

When I phoned to complain (around 9:30am ish) the helpdesk person said that three other people had complained about the same thing as well.

Where are you located? I'm downloading the Win2k3 eval from MS at the moment at 51kbytes/sec, so maybe I'm using up your bandwidth.[]

 

[Andre]

Something to try:

Do a tracert to the server (even though it will only work for the first few hops) and verify if the problem is at your connection or somewhere further along on the network.

Your first few hops should be very low latency, sub 50ms or so.