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Subject: cheating? lagging? or what???

Hi!
Has it ever happened to you that you kill 4 or 5 guys just to find out you're count has only gone to 1 or 2?

I hate it, I used to think those were "stolen kills" but it's so often that I'm the only one shooting somebody, he drops dead, and when I get killed my kills aren't all there.

Sometimes up to my 4th kill is the first to count, I've even had a triple kill, the computer announced it to me and when I see my "body count" it only went up 1 or even none.

Is that some sort of cheating? am I lagging that horribly? what else could it be?

  • 08.08.2007 9:46 PM PDT

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its lag, i get it all the time cause i play on dial-up :P

  • 08.08.2007 10:33 PM PDT

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Happens to me a lot too, and it's because of the latency in my broadband connection. If you look at your assists in the post-game lobby, the rest of your kills are recorded there, but credited to someone else on your team. What I don't like and don't understand is sometimes in the post-game lobby I'll see that I had suicides, when none ever happened to me in-game. This lowers my score.

  • 08.08.2007 10:40 PM PDT

Gee! thanks guys! I really hate that, happens so often. I have a 1Mb. transfer rate... what should be a good connection?

  • 08.08.2007 10:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Killer46 TH
its lag, i get it all the time cause i play on dial-up :P


Jesus who let you into XBL.

No offense to you, I always thought you had to have at least 200kbps down to play XBL.





I used to have 600kbps down and 50 kbps up and I played well on other people's host.

[Edited on 08.08.2007 10:49 PM PDT]

  • 08.08.2007 10:48 PM PDT

Freedom of Speech does not equal "Freedom from Consequences when one speaks".

It is a right, and all rights have responsibilities associated with them. Ignore the responsibility, and you tend to lose the right.
Recon Number 54

Posted by: MasterMayan
Gee! thanks guys! I really hate that, happens so often. I have a 1Mb. transfer rate... what should be a good connection?


What do you mean by a "1Mb. transfer rate"? Do you mean a 1Mbps download? If so, that's OK. Upload should be at least around 180Kbps. But what's most important is the latency in the connection. In order for you to be on an even playing field with others, your Round Trip Time should be less than 80ms, preferably between 30 and 60ms. Max Pause should be no more than 100ms.

By comparison, my Round Trip Time is usually about 90ms, but my Max Pause can be as much as 1500ms. Not good!

  • 08.08.2007 10:53 PM PDT

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I dont want to speculate, but my ping/latency is atlrast .5 seconds-1 second and pause would be in calculable :P

  • 08.08.2007 10:57 PM PDT

Freedom of Speech does not equal "Freedom from Consequences when one speaks".

It is a right, and all rights have responsibilities associated with them. Ignore the responsibility, and you tend to lose the right.
Recon Number 54

Posted by: Killer46 TH
I dont want to speculate, but my ping/latency is atlrast .5 seconds-1 second and pause would be in calculable :P


If you want to measure it precisely, go to InternetFrog.com, and do their speedtest. Don't know how many servers you have to hop to get there and back, but it's a pretty good real-world measure of your connection quality.

  • 08.08.2007 11:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: Killer46 TH
its lag, i get it all the time cause i play on dial-up :P


Jesus who let you into XBL.

No offense to you, I always thought you had to have at least 200kbps down to play XBL.





I used to have 600kbps down and 50 kbps up and I played well on other people's host.


Playing on Dial-up is hard, but not impossible, with a good host and a 6 or less player game the ping is around .25 seconds, but sometimes its like 3 seconds :( Ive adapted to playing on Dial-up, im level 14 thc and 15 ts, when I get proper broadband I will get upto around 20-25 without much trouble. my matchmaking takes forever and I keep getting umped back to stage 1 all the time. but Ive gotten used to it. also, my upload/download is around 20-30kbps :P

  • 08.08.2007 11:05 PM PDT

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with nothing running,

download: 26.4 kbps
upload: 25.8 kbps
Quality: 78%
Round trip: 354ms
max pause: 2456ms

oh my god... so very slow...

  • 08.08.2007 11:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Killer46 TH

with nothing running,

download: 26.4 kbps
upload: 25.8 kbps
Quality: 78%
Round trip: 354ms
max pause: 2456ms

oh my god... so very slow...



lol nice

  • 08.08.2007 11:42 PM PDT