Packet Loss

[stephen_wq]

Hello,
When playing Unreal Tournament 2004 online, i get 5 packets lost every few seconds. This doesnt make a major difference, but at higher pings its very noticeable.
Stats from router:
Line Mode G.DMT
Line State Show Time
Latency Type Interleave
Line Up Time 15:06:43:08
Line Coding Trellis On
Line Up Count 1

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 2560 Kbps 160 Kbps
Attainable Line Rate 2880 Kbps 928 Kbps
Noise Margin 13.8 dB 28.0 dB
Line Attenuation 47.0 dB 20.0 dB
Output Power 16.9 dBm 7.4 dBm

Its meant to be a 7.6mbit down/128k up line, but im 3km from the exchange which is over loaded from the recent entire country (NZ) going to full speed adsl.

Anything i can do to stop packet loss? Or increase speeds?

[NoVaTuRiEnT]

Hi...

I see no-one has replied "The Grim Reaper" :-P

Dunno if they require more information, lol

[trogers]

Packet losses can happen right from the modem and along the signal path to the game server.

This tool from PC Ptistop may be able to help locate where packet losses are occurring:

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/iCheckConnection.asp

[stephen_wq]

PC Pitstop Connection Checker 1.2
Copyright (c) 2004 PC Pitstop LLC. All rights reserved.
DNS is working
Ping 144.140.154.35 (144.140.154.35) 32 bytes * * * * *
Trace route to 144.140.154.35
1 (192.168.1.1) 32 bytes 1 0 0 0 0
2 (203.109.128.242) 32 bytes 49 47 47 48 49
3 (203.109.130.33) 32 bytes 50 49 50 49 50
4 (202.147.41.93) 32 bytes 49 49 50 51 49
5 (202.147.55.210) 32 bytes 74 74 73 73 75
6 (202.147.40.126) 32 bytes 72 74 73 71 74
7 (61.88.133.205) 32 bytes 91 88 90 102 91
8 (61.88.221.133) 32 bytes 88 90 90 89 89
9 (139.130.2.65) 32 bytes 88 89 87 88 86
10 (203.50.6.21) 32 bytes * 90 91 121 89
Packet loss at Bundle-Pos1.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net
11 (203.50.79.129) 32 bytes 89 90 * 89 89
Packet loss at TenGigE0-12-0-2.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net
12 (203.50.80.154) 32 bytes 89 89 89 89 89
13 (139.130.1.246) 32 bytes 90 89 89 90 89
14 (0.0.0.0) 32 bytes * * * * *
Hop 14 doesn't respond, giving up
Previous hop was telstr312.lnk.telstra.net
Cannot open http://144.140.154.35:8908
http://gamearena.com.au returned 52515 bytes in 0.43 seconds (978 Kb/s)

Done.

[legumo]

packetloss most of the time is an ISP problem, there's very little you can do but i have a little reccomendation....

open your registry and go here:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

in Parameters create a new DWORD and type this Tcp1323Opts
after you created it, double click it, choose DECIMAL and then type 3

close registry editor and reboot.

this will enable TIMESTAMPS, it adds some headers but it can help with Packet Loss.

i am surprised nobody wrote about this, lazy arses.

more info here : http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157

[trogers]

packetloss most of the time is an ISP problem, there's very little you can do but i have a little reccomendation....

open your registry and go here:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

in Parameters create a new DWORD and type this Tcp1323Opts
after you created it, double click it, choose DECIMAL and then type 3

close registry editor and reboot.

this will enable TIMESTAMPS, it adds some headers but it can help with Packet Loss.

i am surprised nobody wrote about this, lazy arses.

more info here : http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157

Time stamp can also be activated by checking the Time Stamp box in TCP Optimizer.

But I usually do not recommend to activate it. If packet losses occur within our hardware or line, we should address and correct the fault. If it occurs in our ISP's network, we info them to correct it.

In this case, packet losses are occurring beyond our ISP's network and I would recommend to look for another game server.