Having trouble with online gaming

martin5454

martin5454

martin5454

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I am living in Bangkok ATM and am having difficulty maintaining or even starting a online game with friends in the UK. I realize am pretty far away but if I can watch a guy jump from the edge of space live I should be able to play Age of Mythology. We cant even get a game started on Warhammer DoW1 on steam. We tried using Voobly for AoM, which works for about 45mins then I lose connection and that ends the game.

So far I have tried opening recommended ports and allowing programs through Windows firewall.

Can anyone give any advice on the next step?

1 Up grading internet connection?

10Mbps Down / 512K UP

I pinged a server in Leeds using speedtest.net and got...

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My friends has a 60Mbps Fiber connection btw

2 Buy a new router?

I am using an awful ISP router but with static IP and LAN connection

3 Setup our own private server?

Advice please!
 
Yes I thought about doing this, taking my upload speed from 512 to 1Mbps would cost an extra six pounds a month though. Hope it works.
 
I would say the upload speed, where abouts are the servers you are playing?

Does this only happen with your friends? (Could be their connections)
 
36ms round trip from Thailand to Leeds is simply not possible. Something funny is going on. I do not know what.
 
Maybe I will try upgrading my connection then. 13Mbps/1Mbps for £18 pm tho!

We used Voobly for AoM ( would gladly pay but complicated issue with CD keys) but it seems to disconnect me after 30 - 45mins. Which is really annoying. Not sure where there servers are. We also tried Team Fortress 2 on Steam but couldnt even get a game started.

It might be worth trying another Steam game before committing to connection upgrade. @ drizzy, no idea whats happening there but I retested twice 36ms&37ms
 
martin5454 said:
Maybe I will try upgrading my connection then. 13Mbps/1Mbps for £18 pm tho!

We used Voobly for AoM ( would gladly pay but complicated issue with CD keys) but it seems to disconnect me after 30 - 45mins. Which is really annoying. Not sure where there servers are. We also tried Team Fortress 2 on Steam but couldnt even get a game started.

It might be worth trying another Steam game before committing to connection upgrade. @ drizzy, no idea whats happening there but I retested twice 36ms&37ms
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it's physically not possible... the straight line distance between leeds and bangkok is about 6000 miles... travelling at the speed of light it would take 66ms to travel there and back, and the route an internet connection takes is not straight, and electrons don't actually travel at the speed of light and there will be latency in every router along the way

if you can't get any online games to work then it points to your quality of service not being very good, an upgrade in raw speed won't fix an underlying reliability issue

I also get a ping of 250+ to trueinternet.co.th which is what I'd expect
 
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Try looking at a different ISP if you can, look at bethere.co.uk they have a great service for gamers. A lot of their staff hang around in the private forum if you ever have problems.
 
I have had huge problems playing some steam multiplayer games (Empire Total War and Company of Heroes) and I'm in the UK playing UK friends. I wanted to play a couple of games co-op with a mate but the network games simply would not connect. We'd be able to join the same counterstrike servers but could not play the 2 games we wanted to. We'd tried everything including turning off both our firewalls on the routers.

The workaround we found was using Hamachi, a shareware VPN. However, be aware that it creates a virtual lan so files and folders will be visible.
 
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