heres my case. I’m on w/e the hell a college connection is(the good one)… on like the additz and anti3d servers I have an average ping of about 50 ms. give or take. but, before like 7 or 8 pm on weekdays, my connection is just utter shit. I get crazy lag spikes and whatnot(even w/ a ping of like… 20). anyone know what’d cause this? It pisses me off that i cant play at those times
This happened to a friend who was also on a college connection. It was generally network over-utilization on campus with p2p and whatnot.
Could also be too much crap flowing over the internet in general during heavy usage hours.
Edit: If the company that provides your campus with access is named Sprint, this is also the problem. Chances are you have Verizon though, since they own 90% of the state (unlucky me to get stuck in one of the few counties with Sprint =[ )
find some way to destroy every direct connect thing that the stupid freshman are using and your connection will increase exponentially
so destroy it from the inside like a PI
fuck rescom
Might be comp problems, also ping may look good, but could go sour at random times while in-game.
problem with being on a college campus, is that most of the time the speeds just plain suck. Think about EVERY computer that is on campus. Every dorm room, every facuilty building, any room with computers. Now consider all of those p2p programs like emule, kazaa running so all of those students can DL their favorite music. On top of all of the ad-ware sending and receiving data (aka wasting your bandwidth). In my last year in college, I was lucky to get a DL with DAP to go 5 kbps.