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Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

pingu1978
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Registered: ‎27-09-2009

Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

I have started to play BF2142 after some time away from it after being screwed over by MW2.
Trouble is, my ping is all over the show. I'll select a server with a good ping of around 50, play for 5 minutes and then my ping will rocket up to 800 at times.
I have seen an old post on this and you suggested changing the MTU, what is that and how do I do it?
I've just done a trace route if thats of any use, and that seems erratic to me.
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    97 ms    99 ms    99 ms  dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
  2    34 ms    35 ms    33 ms  lo0-plusnet.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.1
  3    35 ms    34 ms    34 ms  gi1-6-703.pcl-gw01.plus.net [84.92.0.181]
  4    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  te2-1.pcl-gw02.plus.net [212.159.1.114]
  5    33 ms    33 ms    34 ms  te2-2.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.0.190]
  6  141 ms  129 ms    34 ms  rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
  7    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  212.58.238.149
  8    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Lorenzo48
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

Plus net gw1 and gw2 seem to be causing issues, posts on this forum and elswhere. I have same issue.
They either need to sort it out or they don't really want gamers to play on their ISP - even at £20 a month  Roll_eyes
Don't ask customer service, they say the answer is to drop connection and re-connect.  Huh
Like you're gonna route me via another ISP?  Grin
dvorak
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

If you drop and reconnect you will more than likely attach to a different and perhaps less congested gateway which might give improved performance.
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pingu1978
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

By "drop and reconnect" do you mean just restarting my router or doing a full reboot of it, inc reset?
GixerBoy75
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

I've tried this a number of times and it's made no difference to my ping times!
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wacky17
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

I play this game most nights and to be honest with you i get high ping anywhere from ten to midnight. I dont get high ping with any other game just bf2142, i think its to do with the ports.
dvorak
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

Has anyone done a wireshark capture to make sure it is been prioritised correctly?
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wacky17
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

Does wireshark work on win7?
pingu1978
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

Wireshark? What is that?
Here is a log of this evenings activity. Restarted router at 22.10 ish. Only one spike so far after.
Those spikes were during a game = unplayable. You cant expect us to restart our router every time this happens!
pingu1978
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

So are there any Plusnet staff monitoring this? Do they think these are acceptable? Are you expecting me to reset my router every night?
wacky17
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

I was on last night i didnt have much of a problem but i have installed wireshark now and i will start it up around 10pm tonght. The night before 24th i did have problems (1000+ ping).
@pingu1978 my name in bf2142 is drw81 so add me so if it spikes with you i should see it as well, thats if we are on the same server anyway.
Chris
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

The best check is to send us a Wireshark capture on a ticket while you are having the problems in game, this will let us check if the game is being prioritised correctly and if not, correct it.
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wacky17
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

Thank you i will do but this will be around midnight because this problem can happen any time between 10-midnight.
pingu1978
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

OK will do. The video says not to do a capture for more than 10 seconds, thats barely time to get the game up and running. Shall I ignore that?
andymurdoch
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Re: Erratic Ping on Battlefieild 2142 PC

if you ask me its nothing to do with game prioritys... loads of us went thru this last november, all of us submitted wiresharks and the games were prioritised fine, just appears the service has degraded back to what it was last november again Sad