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Ahh, you mean the 'I'diots in Hollan'd'? How are they ruining the internet? and what can we do to stop them?


;) What have ID done? - I assume made cut backs on servers or something?

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Make traceroutes to find the cause of your problem and contact your isp.

Traceroutes? :o

Open your cmd terminal and type

tracert server-IP

and see if you're going through an unnecessary amount of hops before you reach your target destination.


EDIT: here's mine

Reply below :)

Try this: http://www.visualroute.com/lite.html
Fill in a quake live server ip as target and it will show you where the extra latency is added.

Reply below :)

If you look at a post it says Link,iMsg and reply. If you klick at Link you get the adress to that one post. Instead of saying look for my reply you can give them the link like this; http://www.esreality.com/post/2682957/unplaya...pid2683109

Level3 is the culprit afaik. I have the same issue but then the other way around. It doesnt always happen, but seems to be more frequent in peak internet hours.

70-120ms to UK-Maidenhead where I otherwise ping 19ms. It does not stutter/lag/warp at all though, its a flat lagometer but with increased ping. Dont have the issue with any other server locations.

Example tracert from my point of view:

http://pastebin.com/DiBXU8tm

What's Level3? My high pings yesterday were quite smooth actually. It's only now and then that I get unplayable spikes - even on a 20Ms connection.

Play reflex, its lags for everyone!

I've just run that Visual Route to a UK server and the results look really good I think. 15ms ping average, 1 percent packet loss, 12 hops. But! - I've logged onto Quakelive this morning and all the ping times look back to normal. Thing is, I'm pretty sure I'll have another instance where the ping times will be as they were yesterday. Its happened quite alot over the last few months.
Thanks for the replies guys.

12 hops is insanity not 'really good', please post that traceroute.

Can't create server in Spain - Requested location is unavailable or overloaded. Please try again later or use another location.

Coke & doughnuts must be a higher priority for these anal dwelling butt monkies

If it happens a lot and your ISP won't fix it look into a VPN solution (incloak.de, frozenway etc)

Hi JDMYO, I have the same problem and I'm in the Uk.
I'm on Virgin Media broadband (and despite everyone saying its crap and warpy) my connection is usually really good.
On the odd occasion, like this Saturday, my connection also had these terrible pings, with better pings than normal to Poland and Italy.
The weather was really bad here (near Nottingham) so I reckon its just loads of traffic all at the same time.
Did a separate ping test and it was spot on - 33meg dl and 2meg upload, so maybe the routing is changed when its really busy?

I'm on virgin aswell dude. I've had a quick game today and the pings are better than I've ever seen them! - green pings to absolutely everywhere... Ive had this connection for over 4 years now and its been exceptionally good/fast, just these passed 2-3 months it's been very up and down with Quake. Still - if it stays like it is today then I can't grumble :) It's also peak time as well at the minute.

100 ping to uk in the server browser again. and whadayaknow its saturday :P

Yeah dude - similar here :/

Same here, servers fucked up, only playable on ita servers, and sometimes i get random lags 999 ping for 0.5 sec.

The lags are back :( Unplayable for the last 2 or 3 days. Pissing me off so much. Pings aren't bad but getting random spikes 30 - 100+ (connection interrupted).
So annoying, my connections been solid and fast for over 3 years on the same ISP. Since august I've had problems.

also having lags in the past days again...pinging 70-110 to swede servers for no reason whatsoever...again. sad stuff.

This morning pings have been perfect until now - 10:30am, the spikes have started. Is this problem down to congestion? I only see the odd player with a problem similar to mine and I've seen lots of other UK players with fine connections. Is it likely to be my ISP? The spikes started 20 minutes ago, one every minute or two. Now it's every 5 seconds.

please read the last section of http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post294884

"DEBUG NETWORKING"

Thanks dude :)