High Ping in games

cruisinbeatz · 20 Dec 2006 at 15:44

well i formatted my computer and my ping for some reason has dropped abour 10-15, dont know why, but its the same on any server i go into now.

Draeger · 20 Dec 2006 at 16:04

You may well have had some sort of deeply hidden spyware/malware running on it before you formatted m8?. No idea.

Glad to hear you got it sorted out though!!!.

cruisinbeatz · 22 Dec 2006 at 13:03

Yea i did, i ran adaware and spybot as well as avg just incase there were any viruses.

Sinque · 22 Dec 2006 at 14:36

Edinho said:
I cant see 70 ms been much of a problem. I would rather have 70 ms than lag spikes every minute.

Speaking of lag spikes, since his problem is sorted, i'll hi-jack this thread!

Over the past few days i've been playing Hidden Source, and my usual ping is around 20-40 but sometimes it's been spiking up to a massive 400ms. It gradually works it's way up also, randomly goes up to 100ms, then maybe back down again, then woop all the way to 400 for about 10seconds and then it will slowly go back down to 40 or so again.

I'm using a D-Link(DL-524) router with NTL 10mb and never had these kinds of problems before. None of my family is downloading or uploading as i've checked to see if that was the problem.

Recently a splitter was installed as i've moved room in the house. This is to allow two modems to be running off one connection so wires arn't flying about allover. But even still, the second modem isn't even connected!

Any ideas?