My Pings Are High, It Affects ...

[Jeff]

 I want to know, for everyones sanity, the problems caused by high pings some users are experiencing.

If you are affected, list below what the symptoms are. When I say affected, I specifically want to know what you were doing at the time when you realised that your problems were due to high pings. For example, gamers suggest that they were suffering extreme lag and logged out of the game server and on testing their connections found that their pings were high. Maybe something else, streaming video perhaps? Online radio, whatever your experiences are.

I do not however wish to hear from unaffected people. By this, I mean users who never had a problem until they learned about a latency graph, or learned how to ping telehouse only recently, or those who have brilliant pings. Participants with non-IDNet IP addresses will be banned (unless your normal login as via an IDNet IP address, some folk may use IDNetters from work, common sense will prevail). Pardon me for my prejudice but those genuinely affected will appreciate where I`m coming from. We need to get to the bottom of this!

Oh and please, no discussion irrelevant to the topic . It will be deleted.

Well, fire away!

[AvengerUK]

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[karvala]

First noticed it when web browsing; all sites were taking a long time to load, often needing a refresh.  Then I checked the ping times (I'd checked them previously when the problem was first raised, but they were fine so I'd assumed I wasn't affected), and was surprised to see them so high.

At a later time, I was remotely logged into my office machine through VPN, and suddenly the whole thing became absurdly slow.  Logged off, disconnected the VPN, reconnected and logged back in, but still slow.  Checked the pings, and they were high again.

I don't do much audio/video streaming or online gaming, so I haven't experienced anything really on those.

[maxping]

For me it was just that i didnt seem to be doing as well when playing CoD2 as i usually do , i don't want to blow my own trumpet but i usually do well most games and the day i first noticed it i seemed to be getting my ass kicked way too much ,it just didnt feel right.

When the map changed i noticed my ping was over 150 so ran a few checks and the results are in the "Ping" thread.

I have also noticed that i see the "Connection Interrupted" message more than i used to , it seems to have started approx 2 months ago .

[Jeff]

Update (this will be a rolling log).

Web browsing - Slow Loading.
Remote login VPN - Slow (user refresh, same).
CoD2 - User cr*p(sorry mate) Pings over 150.

Thanks guys, the above will be added to next findings by others ... anyone, feel free to look for new instances and even post test results with datestamp, I`ll figure out how to integrate into rolling database

[maxping]

Post deleted - irrelevant (no prob m8, just keepin it on track )

[CatMangler]

Hmm cant remember exactly when this issue started but I knew about it before I migrated.

First time I noticed it was trying to play an on-line game and couldn't hit the side of a bus.

Checked my in-game ping and noticed it was 120-150ms.

I also get "LCP no response" fairly often and struggle to reconnect

PS- I'am @ work hence non-idnet ip

[Danni]

IRC problems were what alerted me, with my lag to servers such as freenode increasing from ~120ms to ~500ms. Also experienced a lot of lag on games such as isketch, which was affecting my game play. Web browsing is occasionally slow, and that normally corresponds with the high pings. It hasn't been a huge problem here, just more of an annoyance.

[jimc]

likewise with me has been going on for a long time now,
kicked today playing battlefield2 for high pings, past few weeks has been intolerable and I have virtually stopped playing, lots of lag.
also noticed it recently watching online streaming video loads of buffering last few weeks , before it was nice and smooth, However I dont believe  its inherently an ISP problem I am now fairly convinced its BT and theres probably nowt we can do until BT get their fingers out.

[mrapoc]

My pings problems affect me, rarely on games now, but when it does, i get monster pings jumping to 200

More usual is slow loading of web pages
Even more usual is slow loading of streaming video and the odd streaming audio

[equk]

For me it effects:

Webbrowsing (slow load times)
FTP Upload (modem speed? even to the point of timing out and having to try later)
Emails (slow downloading but mainly sending is stupid)
Gaming (try playing on a FPS at 150ms or even WoW in a raid)
SSH VNC (very slow, mostly unusable)

So it basically effects everything I use the connection for (which is why I get annoyed when people try to play it down)