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    Router trouble!

    Hi guys,

    I currently have a Belkin wireless ADSL router. Most of the time it's fine, but the problem is when I come to playing online games - mainly Steam.

    When I say for e.g. load up steam and refresh the servers it gives me a list of nice low latency servers - however, when I try to join the server, the box pops up with the server details and the latency jumps for e.g. from 23 to 1016 then 2000. Sometimes it just won't join - after a minute it might join although showing high latency, but when in game it goes back to normal (23).

    This seems to be happening more regularly!

    I've also noticed that when I am getting this high latency, I minimise counter-strike, I can't connect to the net although my router says I am connected - I have to wait 5, sometimes up to 10 minutes to resume my net connection.

    I think I am some how maxing something out.

    I then tried using All-Seeing Eye and used lots of filters, but even refreshing around 1000 servers I was getting the same problem.

    I then thought maybe I don't have the right ports open, but I'm sure I have!

    Does anyone know what is happening and how to get around it? Frustrating to say the least!

    Thanks folks!

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    To be honest, it sounds like you are using wireless. Wireless cannot, and probably never will be able to cope with gaming, due to its unreliability. As soon as any load is placed on a wireless connection the ping times shoot up and there is very little you can do about it.

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    I am using a wired connection mate!

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    Have you made sure the correct ports are open on your router for Steam to be able to run properly?

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    I think so, but a tad confused - I need help setting my router up better. All this port forwarding stuff is confusing.

    I have opened up the correct ports, but it asks for a "trigger port" which has stumped me so I just put in 27015 I think - can't remember. All I know is I put a range in for TCP and a diff one for UDP.

    Then i saw on the net somewhere earlier (not at home atm) that I should be using port forwarding????

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    Try sticking your "internal" IP in the DMZ of the router.

    What this does is just opens your PC fully to the internet so theres no need to mess about with portmapping as theres quite a lot of ports and ranges required for Steam.

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    I tried that Lee, got the same thing - ping goes to 2000 when trying to join server, if I do eventually join it, ping goes back down to normal - no problems when connected.

    Someone on IRC said it sounds like the router is overloading itself - it can't handle the servers being all refreshed and so it maxes itself out. Could that be the case? If so how do I sort it.

    p.s. when you say ur internal IP, you mean ur LAN one yeh? If so it's 192.168.0.2 and yes I used that IP in the demiliterised zone.

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    What servers are you trying to join, are they local to you, or from across the world?

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    Local - I only ever join low latency servers. When I refresh the server list I see low latency servers, 20's, 30's, 40's etc. When I try to join that's when it starts giving me a 2000 ping and my net stops working for a while!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ytrebil
    Someone on IRC said it sounds like the router is overloading itself - it can't handle the servers being all refreshed and so it maxes itself out. Could that be the case.
    That could be the case. The only real time I've ever seen anything like that occur was when a friend and his housemate bothed used P2P.

    Instead of refreshing the server list, have you tried adding say 2 to 3 IP addresses as favourites and seeing if that works ?

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    That's what I do, once I have found a server I like with good latencies I add it to Favourites so I don't have to try and find it again in the massive list.

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    Cheers I'll try adding a couple to favourites and doing it that way chaps!

    I'll report back later.

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    I don't think that's your router... I get the EXACT same thing a lot of times... I think it's when the server is just too busy...

    And I'm on a all wired (not wireless) Cable modem about 2 to 4 Mbps. I also have a different router than you, so It;s probably a steam problem. (D-LINK Gigabit router). I can tell you 100% that it's not this router... This is an upgrade from a Linksys router with horriable performance, and this made everything like twice as fast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gman1981
    That's what I do, once I have found a server I like with good latencies I add it to Favourites so I don't have to try and find it again in the massive list.
    My favorites always disapear. Not always, but a lot of times.

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    Yeah my favourites in steam does too mate.

    Use All-Seeing Eye.

    If I add a few servers to my favourites say a dozen it refreshes them fine, I get high latency after refresh when initially trying to join but hit cancel then do it again and it's fine!

    No idea what prob is yet, i still think it's the router not coping with opening all the connections at once.

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