I had been getting bad lag in it. Had no lag in other servers. Comparison was same ping showing around 80-100 in TAC and others. But even with TAC empty I had bad lag, yet i could go in other server with same ping showing and 40 players and no lag. I tried lots of things like overclocking, minimizing settings, etc. Not much diff from all that. I was thinking it was maybe the route of my "Shaw Cable" internet plus my borderline minimal system for it, meaning I was routing more to TAC maybe then to others. I even tried with antivirus and firewall software off. No diff, fps was same, just loaded and got in game faster.

 

Yesterday I read the links from our forums to Punkbuster site. It said firewall users may not get automatic PB updates, to check BF2\PB folder for certain files, that if not there, you're not updated. I saw they were not there. So I followed PB site instructions to download 116kb "pbweb.exe" into the BF2\PB folder, run it in there. When I did, firerwall popup asked me about it, i said yes, always. It connected to net and showed installing missing files and updating old files.

 

I played tonight at TAC with about 40 players for hr or 2, 90-100 ping showing, NO LAG !! :-) Was fun finally ;-) Even getting "owned". lol.

 

So be sure and try this if you have lag there like I used to. :peace:

 

Now I can slowly work on improving my crappy BF2 teamwork aspect I so miss from feeling able to do well in FA.

 

The cost of BF2 ranked servers is too high. I suspect they set it high to see if they get it. Hopefully it will come down in time. Because not too many people will continue to except such overblown prices for long. Good reason maybe to try and have big clan of supporters to reduce the cost to all.

Correction, NOT !! Was great earlier but last hr has got me kicked repeatedly saying admin kicked me for team kills or something. :peace:

:peace: you were probably punished a few times for tking, or you were idle.

You had to add in "Now I can slowly work on improving my crappy BF2 teamwork aspect I so miss from feeling able to do well in FA. "

 

FA is DEAD< DEAD >DEAD let it rest. RIP

 

it is as dead as you smell

just kidding ,you smell like you are dying but not dead yet:peace:

TigerHawk apparently checked bf2cc after i gave up angrily and went away. She says the chat history showed message saying sorry hogan you're being kicked for high ping. I was already kicked but she still saw it showing me in there with 514 ping instead of usual 100.

 

So somewhere in the 12 hubs that running cmd then tracert 70.86.73.59 shows me now, must have effectedd me at that time. Had i know this command then I might have tried it to see get proof of where the bottleneck occurred.