Went online to race and entered a watkins glen five-lap showdown. My ping
entering was 194. After qualifying the server had a 5:00 warm-up. While I sat
in the chat area with the entries option open, I noticed my pins fluctuating
between a low of 83 all the way up to 659, over and over again. Each move from
top to bottom took all of 15 seconds. My quality fluctuated from 98 to 102.
When the race started I warped and lost the pace car, so I just backed out.
There were only four cars in the race. I never have seen such movement on
pings. Anyone have any Idea?
System
Dell p3 600
256 ram
sblive
Geforce 256
Cable modem (cybersurfer wave)
Thanks, Mike
Sounds like you may be having problems with your cable modem similar to I
was. I had the old Motorola modem and was getting pretty bad connects. My
pings to my gateway were very erratic, anywhere from 60 ms - 300ms, with
spikes of 400-500 ms. A couple of folks in the @home service newsgroup
suggested I check and see if Docsis modems were available in my area, I
called @Home tech support and they said they were, and told me to just take
my older modem in and swap it out. I did so, and it made a big difference
for me. My pings to my gateway are now consistantly below 50 ms, and my
online connection quality is much improved.
If I am not mistake , that cybersurfer is one of the older Motorola's? If
so, you might want to see if Docsis is available in your area and consider
swapping it out ( if your renting your modem).
Of course, if it was just the one race, it could have been the server you
were connected to.
--
Don Burnette
D Burnette in N4
Some people do nothing wrong.
The problem is, they do nothing.
And THAT is wrong.
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> Went online to race and entered a watkins glen five-lap showdown. My ping
> entering was 194. After qualifying the server had a 5:00 warm-up. While
I sat
> in the chat area with the entries option open, I noticed my pins
fluctuating
> between a low of 83 all the way up to 659, over and over again. Each move
from
> top to bottom took all of 15 seconds. My quality fluctuated from 98 to
102.
> When the race started I warped and lost the pace car, so I just backed
out.
> There were only four cars in the race. I never have seen such movement on
> pings. Anyone have any Idea?
> System
> Dell p3 600
> 256 ram
> sblive
> Geforce 256
> Cable modem (cybersurfer wave)
>
> Thanks, Mike
