I'm curious to see how good our connections are to the BF2 server. I would like to see based on those playing the game what a great connection looks like versus a junky one. I thought we may be able to all run ping plotter at www.pingplotter.com going to the server IP 70.86.73.59 and then copy and post a picture of your ping plotter results. The freeware version is located here http://www.pingplotter.com/downloads/pngplt_1.exe.

 

Just load the application, enter the IP 70.86.73.59, hit TRACE, then let it log for about 10-15 minutes. After you let it run click on EDIT>COPY AS IMAGE and paste it into MS Paint. Save it as a 256 color image. Then just post to the forum. Attached is a sample of mine.

 

Folks with a bad connection could then possibly take the information back to the ISP and show them what a good connection looks like. I would also like to see stat on DSL vs. Cable and geographic region differences.

 

Thanks,

 

Merc

 

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merc i would recomend editing that pic to remove your IP address.

 

 

and here is mine.

 

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I will show you mine but you might want to look away, it's ugly.

I will post another one after my problem is cleared up.

 

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Here's mine. Virginia / Verizon DSL.

 

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Here is mine, I have argued with Charter Cable too many times. Tonight I had a 206 ping and I live approximately 36 miles from the server. During the daytime when the net isn't so busy, I have a 14-18 ping.

 

Charter Sucks!!!

 

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heres mines

 

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my roundtrip says 17ms, repeatedly. im using cox cable out of baton rouge, LA.

merc i would recomend editing that pic to remove your IP address.

 

and here is mine.

thats no big deal - its a masked IP not the real one.

I will show you mine but you might want to look away, it's ugly.

 

I will post another one after my problem is cleared up.

You can see where the problem starts on yours Klink

well my packet shaper adds a bit to it, but BF2 is set to high priority, while this traffic would be lumped into the low priority, so acualy my ping should be 50ish lower than this says for BF2.

 

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You can see where the problem starts on yours Klink

Ya, they are aware of it now too. Sometime though the problem is in a different area. I don't know why but Shaw was great for 4 years straight and now gone down the drain.Here is another one from later in the night and it looks good.

 

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Here is mine.

 

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here is mine:

 

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Looks like there is somewhat of a bottleneck between the att network and theplanet.com. I can see on Cleatus and Sharps's graphs that they have the same problem at the transition. Probably the union point of the two networks. I believe in the pro version of PingPlotter (30 day trial) you can get the address and email contact of the administrator for the router and get a hold of them. Sometimes they also have a phone number. I think www.visualroute.com will get you that same info. You can also do a whois lookup and see if any contact info comes up.

 

Looks like Mac's connection too goes through the att network and experiences a little latency. Something is up with the att junctions - probably poor att equipment.

 

Something happens around 12.119.136.14 for some.

My latest, now I am blazing. What gives LOL?

What does it mean when the X is not on the red dot? I have that twice and the ping is bad at that point?

 

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Not real sure about the X but it may be the last reading, max value, or the average. Those bars are statistical I believe showing range.

 

What I did notice is that your latest graph shows a different IP (hop 9) which tells me your traffic is routing differently. If you have periodic times of connection problems you could be experiencing conjestion on the network. This is where the ISP has to boost capacity. Since your connection is "best effort" they could just screw you. DSL is closer to dedicated bandwidth though the speeds in most cases are less than cable. Cable connections are shared bandwidth using proxies at the head end. As demand increases bandwidth can decrease.

heres mines

Dude the server is practically in your backyard. I don't want to see anymore gloating about it.

Something happens around 12.119.136.14 for some.

Yeah thats where mine turns to crap!

 

If you look at it, the 12.119.136.14 is the last hop before it hits reverse the planet.

 

Makes you wonder if its not reverse the planets problem.

mine:

 

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left it running while playing bf2 for a few hours, here are the results... is it good?

 

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I forget keyboard keys to copy paste winxp cmd tarcert results as she in bed but at this this rare not net busy time to yuor bf2 server it was 11 hops wit hhighest at 77 ping.