Lag spikes... Or more like Lag drops! Help please

[Andrestor]

HI all,

I need some help

When I play ET online something happens to my internet which makes it "drop" every second for like 2 mins then its normal for like 30 mins, then it starts to mess up agian.

It's annoying at times so I would like to know what's going on....

Any suggestions? please!

Here's a pic of what the lagometerr looks like when it happens

Please, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated

 

Many thanks,

Andrestor

Edited September 5, 2010 by Andrestor

[daredevil]

http://fearless-assassins.com/topic/442-how-to-recognize-your-lag/

 

Give us the required info and we can help.

[!Chuck4Abuck]

we are in the same country and i dont get any lag unless im downloading something , can you plz add your pc specs .

[Andrestor]

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition

RAM: 1 GB

Motherboard: Dell Dimension E520

CPU: DualCore Intel Pentium D 820, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)

Hard drive (IDE, PATA, SATA, etc): SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)

Graphics card: NVIDIA Geforce 7300Se/7200 Gs (512 MB)

Wifi: none

Internet Speed: Down Speed 2.39 MB/s Up Speed 0.33 MB/S

Do you use router? : No

Your location (country): Colombia

ET Version: 2.6b, still had the issue with 2.55

Router (If you use any): none

Which anti virus and firewall you use: NOD32 antivirus version 3.0.642.0 and its integrated firewall (I think it has one), along with Windows Firewall

 

Info From WinMTR:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| WinMTR statistics |

| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

| Dynamic-IP-186851361.cable.net.co - 0 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 16 |

| 172.31.251.193 - 7 | 46 | 43 | 0 | 12 | 47 | 15 |

| 172.31.110.1 - 0 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 15 |

| 200.26.157.133 - 0 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 10 | 78 | 16 |

|bbint-miami-americas-2-pos4-0-0.uninet.net.mx - 0 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 64 | 172 | 63 |

|bbint-miami-americas-2-pos4-0-0.uninet.net.mx - 0 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 64 | 172 | 62 |

| xe-3-2.r02.miamfl02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net - 3 | 46 | 45 | 46 | 67 | 171 | 78 |

| ae-1.r20.miamfl02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 47 | 63 | 93 | 63 |

| as-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 78 | 100 | 187 | 94 |

| eqix.xe-3-3-0.cr2.iad1.us.nlayer.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 78 | 92 | 140 | 94 |

| xe-2-2-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 109 | 117 | 172 | 110 |

| ae1.ar2.ord1.us.nlayer.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 109 | 114 | 125 | 109 |

|as20473.xe-1-0-5-1615.ar2.ord1.us.nlayer.net - 0 | 45 | 45 | 109 | 116 | 126 | 109 |

| 8.9.4.227 - 0 | 45 | 45 | 109 | 118 | 125 | 125 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

WinMTR - 0.8. Copyleft @2000-2002 Vasile Laurentiu Stanimir ( stanimir@cr.nivis.com )

 

Info From Command Prompt:

Ping statistics for 8.9.4.227:

Packets: Sent = 102, Received = 102, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 112ms, Maximum = 336ms, Average = 120ms

Control-C

^C

FYI on this one: Even though it says my avg ping is 120, when i enter the server I get 150 ms or more

 

If you need any more info im glad to help, if i wrote something that you werent looking for plz tell me

Again many thanks for the help

 

Greetings, Andrestor

[daredevil]

CPU and / or hard drive related. You can simulate same behavior in lagometer when u minimize/maximize your ET.

 

Turn of your firewall and antivirus while playing and see in task manager which process are running when you are gaming.

 

It's more likely CPU related.

[ZetaG]

Pentium D 820. I had this exact same problem and exact processor more than half a year back. Based on this I can almost guarantee you the processor needs an upgrade. Why? probably for punkbuster. You can try asking evenbalance why you need a strong processor to not lag, but they probably won't tell you (not trying to put down PB but can't find any other explanation why I don't lag on non-pb environments, and stopped lagging entirely after CPU upgrade)