CS:S Connection Issue

HumanMage

HumanMage

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This started just today so it might be nothing on my end and something with my service provider, but I thought about asking anyway.

My connection with the internet is fine (so it seems) my webpages are brought up as soon as i hit enter. But when I go onto CS:S my ping is at a 400-700 level, getting me booted off the server or just not being able to play, I've tried my luck on about 9 serves and all with the same issue, whats the deal? How come the 'regular' internet is fine, but CS:S connection is so slow?
 
Have you tried sorting servers by lowest to highest latency, try the lowest few and see what happens.

also try creating a server with a single bot, and tell me what your ping is then.

Kent.
 
I'm getting the same problem. Steam released an update today, and since then my pings never go out of the 100's range, and in some servers, they peak in the 300 range. Also, when trying to join servers through CSS, it only loads about 68 servers or so, whereas before it would load well into the 3000+ range.

I don't know what the deal is, but it has something to do with the patch I think?
 
XRT said:
Have you tried sorting servers by lowest to highest latency, try the lowest few and see what happens.

also try creating a server with a single bot, and tell me what your ping is then.

Kent.
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I tried your two ideas, last night about 12:30 AM or so EST I had no issues, my ping was in the 40-60 range. But this morning, (6 AM EST) my pings were huge,500-600+ on a server with a latency of 624, which was the lowest. THey ranged from 600-2000 in latency. With my own server with a single bot my ping was 5. But playing against bots isnt fun >.<
 
My friend had that problem before only being able to load like 100 servers.. and for your connection problem you computer seems like it should run CS:S fine. What settings are you running CS:S at?
 
WestC07 said:
I'm getting the same problem. Steam released an update today, and since then my pings never go out of the 100's range, and in some servers, they peak in the 300 range. Also, when trying to join servers through CSS, it only loads about 68 servers or so, whereas before it would load well into the 3000+ range.

I don't know what the deal is, but it has something to do with the patch I think?
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I was going to suggest it was something to do with Steam. If they did release a patch, there's probably some unexpected conflict issues that they're now trying to fix...
 
Itanda said:
My friend had that problem before only being able to load like 100 servers.. and for your connection problem you computer seems like it should run CS:S fine. What settings are you running CS:S at?
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I run CS:S at high settings, trilinear filtering, vert. sync disabled and AA on 2x
I average around 100fps on these settings. This is on my laptop too.

Also, when Steam releases patches like this (I imagine this is what is causing my issue) how long does it take them to fix their fix.
 
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Are you connected right to the modem, or on a home network? Or are you on a business/school network?
 
I'm running wireless on a 1.3 Meg connection with Windstream. Something else I've noticed is that now when Steam is running, my connection lags on almost all websites. I ran SpeedTest.net with my steam client connected and got DL of 1.01megs and upload of 190kbps, now with steam exit(ed) out of, my DL was back to 1.3, and upload was in the 300k range.

So I think Steam itself is causing these high pings, but you can't play CSS without Steam. I haven't tried it today though, so I'll post back if anything's new.
 
[-0MEGA-];673340 said:
Are you connected right to the modem, or on a home network? Or are you on a business/school network?
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I'm on a home network, but that has never been a problem before. Heres my speedtest results, while Steam was running.

 
Well I have worst than that:

I can connect fine to the internet but Steam can't find any connection....!
 
Mine's apparently been fixed. A couple of times I would get ping spikes anywhere from 110 to 170 and my connection to the server would lag severely, then it would drop back down into the 60-70 range and everything was fine.

Also Steam is able to find all of the servers now too through my CSS so I'm guessing it was just an early problem with a bug release where some people had it, some didn't and it was causing a lot of problems.
 
yeah my issue seems to be resolved as well, I've had about 5 hours of good pings. Whenever my internet screws up, I get all freaky because that is the thing I have little control over, yet I rely on so much :)
 
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