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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Tyrant on November 20, 2002, 02:58:09 AM
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In a nut shell i would like to know wether increasing dowload speed while keeping the upload the same improve my ping in online games ( i wanna be able to play CS and SOF2 at under 300mS ping :()? (i.e i wanna go from 256/64 to 384/64 but its gonna be an extra 30$ a month)
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its not yer download speed thats hurting you
its yer ping, and distance from server
CS would use less than 10k/sec in total bandwidth anyways
do a tracert on the server yer playing on to see how many hops away it is
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my computer wont let me do a tracert, but a while back i used some software and it told me that i was anywhere from 8 - 16 hops from certain servers.
anyways it seems that i\'m gonna have to live with my shitty ping :(.
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wont let u do a tracert?
click start, programs, accessories, command prompt OR
click start, run, and type in CMD
then
c:\\tracert 192.168.1.1 (or whatever IP the server uses)
this is my tracert to yahoo.com
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
C:\\>tracert http://www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to http://www.yahoo.akadns.net [64.58.76.177]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.100.100.1
2 10 ms 20 ms 20 ms ipl-201-01.pppoe.stargate.net [208.40.201.1]
3 20 ms 40 ms 20 ms f0-0-2.eth.cr-1.crane.pa.stargate.net [209.166.1
64.174]
4 230 ms 30 ms 641 ms v1.eth.ha.crane.pa.stargate.net [206.210.75.1]
5 20 ms 30 ms 31 ms sl-gw2-pen-5-0-TS1.sprintlink.net [144.228.179.9
]
6 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb20-pen-5-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.9]
7 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb24-pen-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.166]
8 20 ms 40 ms 30 ms sl-bb27-pen-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.16.82]
9 20 ms 40 ms 30 ms sl-bb21-nyc-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.96]
10 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb24-nyc-11-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.185]
11 20 ms 30 ms 40 ms 144.232.9.118
12 30 ms 40 ms 30 ms dcr1-loopback.Washington.cw.net [206.24.226.99]
13 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms bhr1-pos-10-0.Sterling1dc2.cw.net [206.24.238.16
6]
14 30 ms 40 ms 30 ms csr04-ve242.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.98.218]
15 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms 216.35.210.126
16 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms www8.dcx.yahoo.com [64.58.76.177]
Trace complete.
C:\\>
31ms ping, not bad
:)
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i think i\'ve found what i was doin wrong rather the typing the command in this way "c:\\tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" iwas typing it when it was "c:\\documents and settings\\blah blah blah\\tracert..."
now if i can only remember how to to change the second command line to the first one. :p
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the command to change directory is
cd
to get back to root directory type in
c:\\cd \\
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Well, you should be able to type tracert or \'any\' other DOS command from any path.
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this is what i get
"C:\\>tracert http://www.yahoo.com
Tracing route to http://www.yahoo.akadns.net [66.218.71.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 Destination host unreachable.
Trace complete.
C:\\>"
*sigh :(
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what kinda of router/firewall are u using?
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I get a crappy 170ms to yahoo.com i hate dialup.. gotta get cable again.
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mm, we got a dlink switch.
I get a crappy 170ms to yahoo.com i hate dialup.. gotta get cable again.
i wish i get 170mS ping, and u know what the funny bit is the only time i got a ping of 170 was when i was playing against a friend of mine, did i mention that he only lives like 6km\'s away :laughing:.
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I used to get 20ms to 30ms. Thats why 170ms is crappy to me.