ZoneAlarm & Online Gaming.

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Anyone else have a problem with ZoneAlarm Pro and playing games online?

I remeber a while back when i got ZoneAlarm, and began experiencing lag spikes when playing online. Wasn't to sure what it was at first, but after a good bit of digging around i discovered it was ZoneAlarm. Whenever i disabled it or ran another Firewall, the spike lags disappeared.

I've recently been looking for a new Internet Security, and since it had been while since i'd had ZoneAlarm installed, i thought i'd give it another go and hope thise mysterious problem has gone. Sadly, however, it hasn't.

I've tried everything i think it could in ZoneAlarm, but still no luck. Really hoping there is a solution to this issue, because ZoneAlarm is an excellent Security Suite.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

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Looks like my over-sized fingers missed some keys when typing, that was supposed to be Lag Spikes.

Basically, every 30-40 seconds after joining a game my ping will shoot up to around 300-ish and cause a few seconds of lag. Then everything will go back to normal for another 30-40 seconds.

I've given every a high trust level, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. The only thing i can think of is that ZoneAlarm is somehow delaying the transfer of packets, and its causing the connection to dip in and out.


Cheers for the response.

 

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I had exactly the same problem with ZoneAlarm and counterstrike. Everything would run fine for 10 seconds or so, then all of a sudden I'd get a huge lag spike for a couple of seconds and then another 10 seconds of normality followed by another spike.

I couldn't work out any way to fix it so I just got rid of ZoneAlarm.

Totally baffled me, too. Have just gone back to Kerio Firewall and NOD32 Anti-Virus. Awesome mix.

Cheers replies anyway, fella's.