Connection Problem in game

mUj0 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: Connection Problem in game

Well here i am again. I just finished installing all my games and stuff and i get ready to play some 1.3 DoD with my fellow villuns, thing is, i cant play. I can get into the server fine. From the list the ping is normal, as usual. but as soon as i get ingame, my ping JUMPS, and i LAG out, and TIME out. Warning: Connection Problem. My choke is around 3-10, and my loss is around 80!!!

I looked under Steam Support and tried what they asked...nothing works. I've tried it with all my anti spyware, anti virus, and firewall turned off. and also with Xfire turned off...I'm not talking about just lag here, its the freezing kind, where you cant move at all, and it times you out of the server and kickes you off. the kind of lag where you cant play the game at all

I'm just not sure where to go from here...my internet seems to be working fine. I can load web pages fine. I can download stuff fine. Its only in STEAM games, i tried different servers, so i know its not the Ville. I tried DOD:S, and CS:S. so i know its not limited to just DoD. HELP ME!
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Simpleman · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject:

MAke sure in your internet settings you are not set to 28.8 or 56k

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Stevo · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

If you use a router, make sure all the proper ports are open.
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mUj0 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

cobra · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

do you get an error message after you get kicked? (on screen or in the console)

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if the proper ports on his router wouldn't be open, he wouldn't be able to join the game neither.
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mUj0 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

nope, no errors, just: Timed out error

i just joined, and it was skippiing, sometimes lagging out, sometimes not. it'd be fine fora bit, then i'd move and it'd lag out again.
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Simpleman · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

HAve you ran a tracert to the server ? I have ran into alot of bad hops as of late to TV4. It seems that there is a bad hop right outside the server as it is the 2nd hop from the server.
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MunkeyEye · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

well first off, you've exceeded your tech support quota this month!

mUj0 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

mUj0 · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject:

WEll....I'm still having problems. Internet seems to be fine while surfing the net. Whenever i play a online game though, my lag just starts shooting through the roof. Not just in DoD anymore. Now its in ALL my games. I've played with my rates, used TCP optimizers, I'm not sure what else to do. Should i call Road Runner (cable company) and tell then i'm getting a crappy connection while playing games but its fine while surfing ? lol. Im really at loss here.
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s.Squirrel · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject:

I had a similar problem last year. It was from running zone alarm with DOD.
I removed it and the problem went away.

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mUj0 · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

cobra · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:05 am Post subject:

might be that windows firewall causing the trouble.

and zone alarm, that has to be the crappiest firewall out there.
it cut my connection back from 600kb/s download to 100 max.
shutting zonealarm down wasn't enough, i actually had to uninstall it.

me and the isp tech that was here searched for about 3 hours before we found the problem......

(was about 3 years ago)
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Canadian Rifle · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

i had that problem before but i fromatted and its fine now but i have a similar question about connection....sometimes wen the server is changing maps it will freeze me at the previous map and i have to go into the console and type retry.... has anyone had this problem?
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cobra · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

yeah, i have that once in a while too. just type retry.
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