Help with internet ping!

[FootballFanatic]

Ok. I have always been with blueyonder and 1st got it when it was 512k. Now its been upgraded twice to 1 meg and my ping is always higher then what it used to be. Still playing on the same servers. My ping used to never go over 40 but now its hardly ever under and sometimes it goes as high as 240.

Anyone help? Should i phone up blueyonder?

Cheers

[Daymonkey]

Are you downloading, is there anybody else in your house that could be if not i would phone them up might be a busy street.

[FootballFanatic]

nah not downloading and not got a network

I might have to phone em. It's going over 100 right now and i know it should never be as high as that.

[Moby-Dick]

depends on where you are trying to ping to.

its also looking at a trace route to see where the delay is occuring.

eg a trace route to www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.36]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  SpeedTouch.lan [192.168.1.1]
  2    31 ms    14 ms    15 ms  my external IP
  3    24 ms    27 ms    23 ms  eth3-8.cr1.uk5.systems.pipex.net [62.241.161.29]

  4    20 ms    22 ms    22 ms  ge-0-0-1-0.cr1.he1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.161
.157]
  5    19 ms    18 ms    24 ms  xpe-gw0.prt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [217.79.160.123]
  6    20 ms    18 ms    16 ms  212.58.238.153
  7    21 ms    20 ms    20 ms  www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.36]

Trace complete.

I get between 14-20ms pings to the bbc's web server from my 512k Pipex line.

what happened if you do the same ?

go to a command prompt and type tracert www.bbc.co.uk

also if you let me know which server you are connecting to for gaming I'll try a trace to it and see if its the server or somethign at your end.

[FootballFanatic]

How do i get the code bit up like you have?
My numbers are a lot higher than yours

[FootballFanatic]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan Thomson>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.85]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * 2437 ms 21 ms 10.125.128.1
2 71 ms 18 ms 100 ms gsr01-ed.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.64.33]
3 64 ms 103 ms 55 ms 194.117.136.138
4 51 ms 37 ms 86 ms 194.117.148.171
5 104 ms 54 ms 74 ms 212.58.238.133
6 38 ms 95 ms 67 ms www40.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.85]

Trace complete.
Also i am in a clan playing with the same people on same servers so its defo a prob with me not with servers.

cheers

[r1zeek]

Problem with spyware/adware/trojan maybe, using a port to transmit information?