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I have noticed that since the "Upgrade" my pings to UK and European servers have doubled. Also I'm getting this effect, that say my ping will be around 50ms to a European Server and then in a cyclic fashion raise up to 150ms.

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O.K here -

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Edited by Jack_Hackett (Sun 01-Feb-09 18:48:06)

As i said, it's cyclic. In fact i've just stopped gaming to a European server which is normally sub 50ms with Idnet, as pings peak to around 150ms and then stay there for a few minutes or more before returning to sub 50ms.

There are no other programs running that are taking bandwidth on an intermittent basis either.

As of 19:37 there is not one server shown on Steam that is sub 100ms. Thats out of 17373 servers available

Edited by Vorlon (Sun 01-Feb-09 19:36:58)

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it's cyclic

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Agreed.

Mine was settling down to near the usual values, now it's back up to 150+ms to bbc.co.uk.

And seems to have hit a plateau

Spoke too soon my ping's are now all over the place and at one point i was stuck at over 100ms for a while reaching 150ms at one point, its like playing on dial up again.


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Edited by Jack_Hackett (Sun 01-Feb-09 20:10:44)

Mine are starting to come down again, from 150+ ms to about 80ms, but extremely erratic.

I won't post the list 'cos I've been pinging the Beeb every 10 seconds for the last 90 minutes

Try pinging vanuatu.vu - then you'll be glad of the very low pings you get to anywhere else.

Pings don't normally bother me, I only do them if someone explicitly asks for them.

But when they're this bad for this long, something's amiss somewhere...

We're working at getting our Centrals balanced which should fix the problem.
Regards
Simon

Thanks Simon.