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Nth · 11-12-2001, 07:09 PM

It sounds like your ping has more than doubled. But there's probably nothing you'll be able to do about, nor your broadband provider. Granted, 30 thousandths of a second shouldn't be noticeable, nor should it seem like three seconds.

About the only thing you can do is run a traceroute from a command prompt. To do this, open a dos box start>run>cmd if on NT/2000/XP, or start>run>command on Win9x/ME. At the prompt type "tracert 123.456.789.012", replace those numbers with the correct IP of the server that game is hosted on, hit enter when all is correct. Most of the time, the additional .030 seconds will be located on a server or node between your provider and the game host; not you to your provider.

Hope this helps.

11-12-2001, 07:09 PM	#3
Nth Member (5 bit) Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	It sounds like your ping has more than doubled. But there's probably nothing you'll be able to do about, nor your broadband provider. Granted, 30 thousandths of a second shouldn't be noticeable, nor should it seem like three seconds. About the only thing you can do is run a traceroute from a command prompt. To do this, open a dos box start>run>cmd if on NT/2000/XP, or start>run>command on Win9x/ME. At the prompt type "tracert 123.456.789.012", replace those numbers with the correct IP of the server that game is hosted on, hit enter when all is correct. Most of the time, the additional .030 seconds will be located on a server or node between your provider and the game host; not you to your provider. Hope this helps.