--->> Still horrible ping.
When you are getting the slow pings, have you made sure that all other applications that could be downloading or uploading at the same time are closed. This is particularly important with P2P applications which, even if you are not downloading, could be uploading to other users which will then dramatically affect your pings.
I have ADSL2+(21CN) - which operates slightly slower than ADSL MAX (baffled) 
But I get excellent pings.
Even though I never play games.
With Interleaving ON:-
But I get excellent pings.
Even though I never play games.
With Interleaving ON:-
Quote PING pingtest.co.uk (85.113.82.116) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=18.1 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=18.8 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=17.6 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=18.0 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=20.0 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=17.2 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=17.9 ms
64 bytes from ws6.webmaint.net (85.113.82.116): icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=17.6 ms
^C
--- pingtest.co.uk ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7039ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 17.203/18.185/20.002/0.824 ms
Quote from: _CN_ Can you open SF and play live, when your in then alt+tab until u get the popup box "blah blah you alt tabbed" when this is still open click start, run, cmd then type in netstat and it will show all the SF connections, post them here, thanks
i will post the netstat when i actually dont time out and still have 501 ping.
ps i somehow cant actually copy from the cmd box
Have you ping able to compare your pings with another player in the UK?
How do you connect to your router, wired or wireless?
My connection goes via the BT RIN network, not Plusnet's and this is the trace I get to sfront.ijji.com:
How do you connect to your router, wired or wireless?
My connection goes via the BT RIN network, not Plusnet's and this is the trace I get to sfront.ijji.com:
C:\Documents and Settings\John>tracert sfront.ijji.com
Tracing route to sfront.ijji.com [206.82.212.77]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms dg834 [192.168.0.1]
2 12 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.47.89.122
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.47.88.161
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.47.66.170
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.41.217.1
6 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 217.41.171.146
7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 217.41.171.50
8 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.47.88.241
9 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms core1-pos5-2.kingston.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.40.66]
10 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms core1-pos0-15-0-8.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201.73]
11 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms transit1-gig8-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.200.110]
12 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms t2c1-ge8-0-0.uk-eal.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.17]
13 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms t2c2-p3-2.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.164.138]
14 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms t2a1-ge7-0-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.135.110]
15 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 195.66.224.130
16 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms p5-0-0d0.rar1.london-en.uk.xo.net [71.5.174.133]
17 80 ms 79 ms 79 ms p1-0-0d0.rar1.nyc-ny.us.xo.net [65.106.0.118]
18 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms p6-0-0.RAR2.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net [65.106.0.29]
19 136 ms 136 ms 153 ms p1-0-0.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net [65.106.0.34]
20 169 ms 169 ms 168 ms p6-0-0.rar2.la-ca.us.xo.net [65.106.0.14]
21 168 ms 168 ms 168 ms te-11-2-0.rar3.la-ca.us.xo.net [207.88.14.45]
22 167 ms 167 ms 167 ms 207.88.14.46.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.46]
23 162 ms 230 ms 162 ms ip65-47-228-18.z228-47-65.customer.algx.net [65.47.228.18]
24 169 ms 160 ms 160 ms p2c3.irv.intelenet.net [206.82.223.69]
25 160 ms 160 ms 160 ms p6a5.irv.intelenet.net [206.82.223.86]
If your problem is that (a) you are expecting low pings on a stateside server and (b) you are connecting wirelessly you will see very little improvement moving to cable.