Strange gaming since elected to switch to unlimited

[#1]

Hi,
Since I switched to unlimited my gaming has been strange, before I could allways get the drop on people but now I can empty a full mag into them with no hit detection whatsoever. BF3 PC. Also the game seems to be running at half speed as though I am running through treacle. I have done a few restarts to try a different gateway and at the momment I am on ptw-ag04.
My stats all look the same.
Download speedachieved during the test was - 11.25 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 4 Mbps-21 Mbps.
IP Profile for your line is - 12.44 Mbps
Estimated line speed:10Mb (This may vary between 8Mb and 11.5Mb) - Checked on 2012-12-19 10:22:29
Current line speed: 11.9 Mb

Type                        Interleave Path
  Status                  SHOWTIME
                                  Downstream                    Upstream 
  Data rate(Kbps)          14104                          1203
  Noise Margin                    4                            5
  Output power(dBm)          12                          20
  Attenuation(dB)                28                          15

Infact this is the highest my rate @14104 has been since I switched to ADSL 2+.

[#2]

If the gateway was a PCL before you gateway hopped, then it could be the current fault affecting you http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,111057.msg952996.html#msg952996
What I saw was in game pings going crazy with Lotro and streams 4OD/Iplayer/5player stuttering

[#3]

What kind of pings are you getting to servers? Is it happening with any other games?
IIRC BF3 is having a few server problems this week too that may be impacting things.

[#4]

My ping seems pretty stable Chris/Gus, always around 15 to 17 ingame. Between 11 and 13 on BBC.co.uk and the only real jump is sometimes it goes up from 5 to 25 on speedtest which is no big deal.  I did buy a BF3 add-on called Aftermath around the same time as I elected to switch to unlimited so this could be the problem. When I checked PunkBuster manually it said server version not installed (Aftermath seems to delete it), so I updated manually and this installed the server version.  I downloaded BF3 again to see if I could elect not to have aftermath to see if this fixed it, but Aftermath downloaded automatically. Maybe I will have to wait for the next BF3 patch.
I have just built a new computer so BF3 and ARMA 2 are the only games I have on at the moment and ARMA 2 is laggy by default lol, so unfortunately I can't say anything about other games. I will put MOH tier 1 on and see how I go.
Thanks.

[#5]

i moved to unlimited last week and up until 10 mins ago my ping was 15 to 25 which im fine with, but 10 mins ago i got a huge ping of almost 300 for about 7 mins i had to leave the server.
I was on ag04 here is the info

So i jumped gateways and im now on ap06 and getting my correct speeds and ping again .. below

[#6]

Cheers Ste,
I will swap gateways in the morning so I don't take too much of a speed hit mate.

[#7]

i havent had probs with BF3  ptn-ag02. but some web pages load slow 

[#8]

@ukste
We need the full gateway name, ie PCL-AG06 etc as the first part identifies which data centre it's in.
If this happens again can you check that?

[#9]

i will do chris

[#10]

It is getting worse, I can be shooting someone who is running on the spot, then they just warp to 20 yards away and shoot me. I can't go in vehicles because they move too fast for my connection, I can be running and I just keep juddering for a second then carry on again, then judder for a second.I have tried loads of different gateways and none make a difference. Ping is down as low as 11 on servers, noise margin is sat at 6 up and 6 down. Speed test shows 11+ download speed and 5-10 ping. I can't work it out.
I don't know if this relates but my old board had the marvell yukon ethernet driver and this one has intel. ?

[#11]

OK seeing as I don't have any other games on, I tried streaming BBCi player. Before I could watch a whole programe without it buffering, I just put top gear on to see what happened and I can't get 3 seconds without it buffering. I did think it was BF3 to blame, but now I am leaning towards switching to unlimited.

[#12]

Can you do a traceroute to the beeb and a speedtest or two?

[#13]

I watched the latest top gear episode without buffering on an unlimited profile.

[#14]

here you go Kelly, speed test looks OK
C:\Users\James>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
 2    13 ms    13 ms    12 ms  lo0-central10.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.184
]
 3    20 ms    12 ms    12 ms  link12-central10.pcl-gw02.plus.net [84.93.249.86
]
 4    25 ms    12 ms    12 ms  xe-1-2-0.pcl-cr02.plus.net [212.159.1.6]
 5    18 ms    13 ms    18 ms  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6]
 6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 7    12 ms    12 ms    14 ms  kingston-gw.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.6]
 8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 9    13 ms    14 ms    16 ms  ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
10    16 ms    18 ms    17 ms  132.185.255.60
11    12 ms    13 ms    14 ms  212.58.241.131
Trace complete.

C:\Users\James>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
 2    19 ms    13 ms    13 ms  lo0-central10.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.184
]
 3    16 ms    40 ms    21 ms  link12-central10.pcl-gw02.plus.net [84.93.249.86
]
 4    25 ms    19 ms    43 ms  xe-1-2-0.pcl-cr02.plus.net [212.159.1.6]
 5    24 ms    24 ms    25 ms  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6]
 6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 7    15 ms    12 ms    12 ms  kingston-gw.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.6]
 8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 9    39 ms    26 ms    30 ms  ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
10    18 ms    14 ms    19 ms  132.185.255.60
11    44 ms    41 ms    19 ms  212.58.241.131
Trace complete.


Before when I watched the BBCi player without it buffering, I was watching it wireless with my PS3, this time I watched it on my computer which is wired. As i said before I can't understand it. I have just built a new computer and the ethernet drivers and all the chipset drivers are up to date. I have tried a different router and that was the same, lagging really bad in BF3.

[#15]

tonite had some bad laggs BF3 and about 9.45 lost connection totally on  ptw-ag02.