ok .. so initially i though bringing my gaming pc from England over to thailand for 6 months was a good idea.
i've got cod5 , css , crysis and i figured there would be a fair few people playing them over here ... i was wrong :<
does anyone have any advice on helping me 1. figure out whats making my Ping so intolerably high
2. Possibly fixing the above issue.
i'll supply as much info as i can.
currently my Speedtest.net results are giving me pings of roughly 400ms to Maidenhead.
i've done server searches in Crysis Wars and the best ping i've seen was 250ms. in CS:S i searched for servers and could only find 3 within playable pings all of which seemed to be the only thai servers.
(wow ... 3 cs:s servers /sigh) those pings varied from 50 up to 150.
and Cod5 Every single ping in the server search was over 400.
Pc Maintenance wise im fairly sure i have no spyware ect however im open to suggestions that may highlight errors in my ways.
i have Avast + Spybot installed and up to date as well as frequently testing for spyware / virus's.
need help resolving Latency Issues
to be honest i was expecting a fairly high ping when playing on uk servers .. maybe 150-200 ish but 400 .. that just seems a bit over the top.
as for local servers i've so far found 3 thai servers for counter strike source. ... 3 that cater for like 90 people in total throughout thailand /sigh.
other games no luck. even japanese servers have been giving me pings of 250. is there anything at all i can do ?
after browsing the forums more i've installed MalwareBytes and Superantispyware. i'll do the CCleaner after those scans.
i've done the vista tweaks that didnt require regedits.
and last but not least i've just figured out the router password and i'm working my way through that looking for anything that could be killing me. any suggestions on what to keep an eye out for ?
*Update*
i've just checked speedtest.net and im hoping there might be something i can do.
the ping here has sometimes been as low as 19 to bangkok servers but for some reason more recently its jumped up to 100.
makes me think that the cables been damaged or something.
as for local servers i've so far found 3 thai servers for counter strike source. ... 3 that cater for like 90 people in total throughout thailand /sigh.
other games no luck. even japanese servers have been giving me pings of 250. is there anything at all i can do ?
after browsing the forums more i've installed MalwareBytes and Superantispyware. i'll do the CCleaner after those scans.
i've done the vista tweaks that didnt require regedits.
and last but not least i've just figured out the router password and i'm working my way through that looking for anything that could be killing me. any suggestions on what to keep an eye out for ?
*Update*
i've just checked speedtest.net and im hoping there might be something i can do.
the ping here has sometimes been as low as 19 to bangkok servers but for some reason more recently its jumped up to 100.
makes me think that the cables been damaged or something.
Dear.Spoonzie "You need to wait tell Jun 1st 2009"
Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication (Update4)
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three undersea cables connecting Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged.
The failures cut the flow of “data of various kinds” between Europe and the Middle East, and there’s no timeframe for when communications will be restored, said Sanjeev Gaur, director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India. France Telecom SA, which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem, said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America were damaged, according to the U.K.’s Interoute Plc, which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities. The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy. In January, an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast.
“The information we have is a bit sketchy, but chances are that it will have been an anchor again,” Jonathan Wright, Interoute’s director of wholesale products, said in a telephone interview. “Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems.”
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East.
Egyptian Outage
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc’s Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure, said Simon Gordon, a spokesman for the U.K. company. Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure, he said. Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point.
Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia, spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview.
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed, Laughlin said. Point-to-point customers still don’t have connections, and Verizon doesn’t have information on how many subscribers are affected. The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week, she said.
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA, Portugal’s biggest phone company, has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the “impact is very small,” said a company official. Sonaecom SGPS SA, Portugal’s second-biggest fixed-line phone company, also said that it’s diverting traffic to other routes.
‘Greatly Disturbed’
France Telecom’s Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure “greatly disturbed” the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia. At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia, 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service, according to Orange.
Internet traffic “from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route,” Reliance said in an e-mailed “traffic disruption update,” adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services. The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow.
“You can reroute the data through other cables, but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks,” Interoute’s Wright said. “So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted.”
Weather, Sea Conditions
Some of Interoute’s clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure, Wright said.
“It’s difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean,” Wright said.
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station, the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected, according to information received from Telstra. Flag Telecom Group Ltd., a Reliance Globalcom unit, operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions.
Reliance Globalcom doesn’t know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem, said Anurag Joshi, head of the company’s global network operations center.
The SMW4 cable, also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network, connects 12 countries: Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy and France.
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board.
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable, then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable, France Telecom said, adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three undersea cables connecting Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged.
The failures cut the flow of “data of various kinds” between Europe and the Middle East, and there’s no timeframe for when communications will be restored, said Sanjeev Gaur, director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India. France Telecom SA, which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem, said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America were damaged, according to the U.K.’s Interoute Plc, which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities. The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy. In January, an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast.
“The information we have is a bit sketchy, but chances are that it will have been an anchor again,” Jonathan Wright, Interoute’s director of wholesale products, said in a telephone interview. “Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems.”
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East.
Egyptian Outage
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc’s Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure, said Simon Gordon, a spokesman for the U.K. company. Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure, he said. Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point.
Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia, spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview.
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed, Laughlin said. Point-to-point customers still don’t have connections, and Verizon doesn’t have information on how many subscribers are affected. The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week, she said.
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA, Portugal’s biggest phone company, has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the “impact is very small,” said a company official. Sonaecom SGPS SA, Portugal’s second-biggest fixed-line phone company, also said that it’s diverting traffic to other routes.
‘Greatly Disturbed’
France Telecom’s Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure “greatly disturbed” the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia. At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia, 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service, according to Orange.
Internet traffic “from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route,” Reliance said in an e-mailed “traffic disruption update,” adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services. The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow.
“You can reroute the data through other cables, but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks,” Interoute’s Wright said. “So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted.”
Weather, Sea Conditions
Some of Interoute’s clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure, Wright said.
“It’s difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean,” Wright said.
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station, the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected, according to information received from Telstra. Flag Telecom Group Ltd., a Reliance Globalcom unit, operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions.
Reliance Globalcom doesn’t know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem, said Anurag Joshi, head of the company’s global network operations center.
The SMW4 cable, also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network, connects 12 countries: Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy and France.
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board.
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable, then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable, France Telecom said, adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31.
ok guys .. the owner of the house im renting has just contacted me and apparently his isp is up for contract renewal ...
should i go for 2mb / 1mb ADSL or for 12 pounds more should i go for 2mb/2mb G.SHDSL. will the SHDSL give a better ping ? i've been googling it the last few minutes and it seems that some people think it will.
if so would it be enough of a ping difference to make uk servers slightly playable ?
bearing in mind a ping increase of like 20 (from 499 to 479) would not be worth it as its 12 pounds a month plus about 80 pounds over here for a router
should i go for 2mb / 1mb ADSL or for 12 pounds more should i go for 2mb/2mb G.SHDSL. will the SHDSL give a better ping ? i've been googling it the last few minutes and it seems that some people think it will.
if so would it be enough of a ping difference to make uk servers slightly playable ?
bearing in mind a ping increase of like 20 (from 499 to 479) would not be worth it as its 12 pounds a month plus about 80 pounds over here for a router
find someone with the connection and ask them how it is. Also might want to get a trace of the route the connection takes out of your area and view that. But if this is from the same ISP on both speeds then it really won't help latency very much. But ISP's do differ so a change often does better or worse.
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