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Ok this is really getting on my nerves. Before on my 256kbps connection I got a ping of 200+ and Halo was just not worth playing online. I would have thought that upgrading the connection to 1.5mbps (6x faster) that I would now be getting less than 50 ping, but I'm still getting 200+. I've tried messing around in my modem settings, though I cant really find anything besides DMZ.. Is there something I have to do within Windows? I've turned off all firewalls, antivuris etc.

Please help!

  • 08.23.2007 2:52 PM PDT

The other server? I dont know.

  • 08.23.2007 3:14 PM PDT
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Most of the PC issues posted here are the result of PEBKAC.

Don't join laggy servers. Problem solved.

  • 08.23.2007 3:35 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Forward your ports.

  • 08.23.2007 5:46 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Forward your ports.

  • 08.23.2007 6:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Beowul7
Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Forward your ports.



Oh and Halo has major netcode issues.

  • 08.23.2007 6:14 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

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Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Forward your ports.



Oh and Halo has major netcode issues.
I'm afraid so.

  • 08.23.2007 6:16 PM PDT

What it is.

1.5mb connection isn't all that great...I used to have it and averaged around 120 ping in Halo...But since then I've upgraded to a 3mb connection and then to a 5mb connection...I still see servers that i will get about 100 ping but that's the server not my connection, because most servers are in the 60-80 region for me...But anywho, like others said, forward those ports, and make sure you're joining a server that will give you a lower ping.

  • 08.23.2007 6:31 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: kyur4thich11
1.5mb connection isn't all that great...I used to have it and averaged around 120 ping in Halo...But since then I've upgraded to a 3mb connection and then to a 5mb connection...I still see servers that i will get about 100 ping but that's the server not my connection, because most servers are in the 60-80 region for me...But anywho, like others said, forward those ports, and make sure you're joining a server that will give you a lower ping.
Well said.

  • 08.23.2007 6:35 PM PDT
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All the servers read 200+ ping, and I do not know how to forward the ports. I've tried and tried again, I just don't know how.

  • 08.23.2007 8:20 PM PDT

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Most high speed internet connections are faster at downloading then uploading. Could be you have a connection that's very fast at downstream but slow upstream. My DSL is pretty fast going upstream, as I recall, faster than most other DSL and Cable, that's why I have not yet switched, even though the downstream is not fantastic.

  • 08.23.2007 9:45 PM PDT

No one likes a smart ass.....especially another smart ass!

1.5mbps is how much can be sent at one time (bandwidth), not how fast it is sent. Think of it like a highway. You didn't increase the speed limit, you just added more lanes.

Take from DSL Reports website

One of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in networking is speed and capacity. Most people believe that capacity and speed are the same thing. For example, it's common to hear "How fast is your connection?" Invariably, the answer will be "640K", "1.5M" or something similar. These answers are actually referring to the bandwidth or capacity of the service, not speed.

Speed (latency) and capacity (bandwidth) are two very separate things. The combination of latency and bandwidth gives users the perception of how quickly a webpage loads or a file is transferred. It doesn't help that broadband providers keep saying "get high speed access" when they probably should be saying "get high capacity access". Notice the term "Broadband" - it refers to how wide the pipe is, not how fast.

Latency:

Here's the most common example to compare latency and bandwidth:
Imagine water running through a pipe. The pressure is latency, the width of the pipe is bandwidth. If you have a wide pipe but low pressure, you can move more water through the pipe but at a slower rate. If you have a narrow pipe but high pressure, you can move less water but at a faster rate.

Another example that is sometimes given:
Imagine people in an aircraft. In this example, people are the data packets, the size of the aircraft is the bandwidth, and the speed of the aircraft is the latency. A 747 can carry about 400 people but a 707 can carry only 200 people. Both fly at about 500 knots. If both leave New York at the same time, they will arrive in Los Angeles at the same time. But notice that although the 747 has more capacity (or bandwidth) it is the same speed (latency) as the 707.

Latency is normally expressed in milliseconds. One of the most common methods to measure latency is the utility ping. A small packet of data, typically 32 bytes, is sent to a host and the RTT (round-trip time, time it takes for the packet to leave the source host, travel to the destination host and return back to the source host) is measured.

The following are typical latencies as reported by others of popular circuits type to the first hop. Please remember however that latency on the Internet is also effected by routing that an ISP may perform (ie, if your data packet has to travel further, latencies increase).


Ethernet--------.3ms
Analog Modem------100-200ms
ISDN-------15-30ms
DSL/Cable-------- 10-20ms
Stationary Satellite------- >500ms, mostly due to high orbital elevation
DS1/T1------ 2-5ms


Bandwidth:

Bandwidth is normally expressed in bits per second. It's the amount of data that can be transferred during a second.

Solving bandwidth is easier than solving latency. To solve bandwidth, more pipes are added. For example, in early analog modems it was possible to increase bandwidth by bonding two or more modems. In fact, ISDN achieves 128K of bandwidth by bonding two 64K channels using a datalink protocol called multilink-ppp.

Bandwidth and latency are connected. If the bandwidth is saturated then congestion occurs and latency is increased. However, if the bandwidth of a circuit is not at peak, the latency will not decrease. Bandwidth can always be increased but latency cannot be decreased. Latency is the function of the electrical characteristics of the circuit.


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  • 08.24.2007 3:32 AM PDT
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i used to got 195ping and i uhhhhhhhhhhh tripped and hited the laptop and i got 94ping

  • 08.24.2007 9:08 AM PDT
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Update your lan drivers

  • 08.24.2007 9:58 AM PDT

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i used to got 195ping and i uhhhhhhhhhhh tripped and hited the laptop and i got 94ping
Congratulations. You made me sign in just to call you a retard. 'i used to got' do you mind ellaborating any on just how you 'used to got'? 'tripped and hited' just how do you 'hited' something? Everything about that is stupidly, dumb.

  • 08.24.2007 10:21 AM PDT

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Ahh, public education. Bet dollars to donuts he's not home-schooled.

  • 08.24.2007 10:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: snowysnowcones
Update your lan drivers


Yes, try to use LAN and also remember that you may not be the one lagging up the server. Check other player's ping to, since they may be the source of the problem. You may also be constrained to 5- player games (try for slayer if so).... At least that is how it is for me when I play at my moms house.... :7

  • 08.25.2007 12:56 AM PDT
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Join local servers. I get pings like 50, 100, even 250. You just have to find near ones.

  • 08.25.2007 4:42 AM PDT
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Listen to Nomanderwho. Upgrading your Internet "speed" will not lower your ping. You're probably joining servers that are too far away from you. Try joining closer servers.

  • 08.25.2007 1:16 PM PDT