ping checker

SameSuspect · 8 Oct 2006 at 13:55

Sometimes i go to play bf2 and i get amazing loads of lag because people in the house are downloading on their pc's (4 on my network)... So is their some sort of tool i can use to quickly check to see if i my pings good enough?. Thanx

GinG · 8 Oct 2006 at 13:59

i would also find this very useful as no one really uses the internet in my house, however when i play generals zero hour online with my friend it lags so much

modo77 · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:03

erm the ping command?

Dos
ping "web/ip address"

SameSuspect · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:13

what i meant is... is their a tool to show me if anyone in the house is downloading or not. thanx

binaryknight · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:14

best way is actually playing in my mind.

if you ping at a given moment the ping may be fine but horrible a few seconds later all to do with how many open connections etc.

if its torrents you can limit the upload and download speeds as well as max open connections on the client.

the alternatives would be to use a linux based machince to act as a traffic shaper type box giving priority to game packets. there are routers available that do the same thing but i have no experience of either

SameSuspect · 8 Oct 2006 at 16:07

lol ok thanx for your help

SameSuspect · 8 Oct 2006 at 16:12

their HAS to be a simple and easy way to tell if anyone in the household is downloading or not! and if i have enough bandwidth to game with!!?

Scottland · 8 Oct 2006 at 16:25

You could always just run a speed test?

There's quite a few plugins for Samurize that will run pings and traceroutes and display the results periodically.

Ace of Spades · 8 Oct 2006 at 17:51

Could use pingplotter, ive used it for years.

http://www.pingplotter.com/download.html

make sure you get the freeware version (PingPlotter Freeware v1.10 (released Sep 19, 2001))