HELP-Very high ping, what is going on?

[The VCR King]

I have AT&T DSL, and it goes to my Wi-Fi router, and my computer is connected to the router with the built-in ethernet hub. Normally my ping is about 25-50, but for about a week now my ping has been above 700ms and above, and it is causing severe issues with my system and running my games. I have tried resetting the router, different ethernet cables, blahblahblah, and nothing has happened. Anyone know what is going on?

 

[johnb35]

Hubs are bad, use a switch.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Hubs are bad, use a switch.

He probably means he's plugged directly into the router.

 

[salvage-this]

Ping to what?

Ping your default gateway, ping Google DNS (8.8.8.8) run a speed test. Please post your results.

 

[The VCR King]

He probably means he's plugged directly into the router.

Yes.

Ping to what?

TF2 servers.

 

[beers]

blahblahblah

I admire your troubleshooting process.

What does blahblahblah specifically encompass?

Usually one would get this behavior for high utilization on a link, you could do something like traceroute (or MTR) and see the latency between each hop and where it begins collecting additional time.

It's probably a user level type of issue for uploading data somewhere, malware or similar.

 

[Darren]

TF2 servers.

How convenient of you to answer that but fail to try anything else he suggested, all of which would actually help you out...

 

[Geoff]

Yes.



TF2 servers.

Did you do what was suggested? There are TF2 servers in your state, across the country, and all over the world. They will vary wildly.

Run a speed test and post your ping results, ping 8.8.8.8 and tell us your results. If both of those are high, ping your default gateway and see if that's high.

 

[The VCR King]

Ping to what?

Ping your default gateway, ping Google DNS (8.8.8.8) run a speed test. Please post your results.

Here ya go!

 

[salvage-this]

Well that isn't all that I had asked for, but it does give me a good idea on what you are getting.

Try manually browsing in game for a low ping server and see what gameplay you get

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Server_Browser

 

[The VCR King]

Any server I join, my ping is at least 300ms.

 

[Geoff]

Any server I join, my ping is at least 300ms.

Your ping to Google was excellent. Are you sorting servers by lowest ping? Servers in other countries will have much higher ping.

 

[The VCR King]

Well, the gameplay isn't too bad so I'm not very concerned. It's just the high ping thats got me worried.

 

[Geoff]

Well, the gameplay isn't too bad so I'm not very concerned. It's just the high ping thats got me worried.

Did you even read my post? Are you sorting servers by lowest ping? There are servers all over the world, if you're in a European server it will have much higher ping than a local server in the US.

 

[NerdGirl1313]

I have AT&T DSL, and it goes to my Wi-Fi router, and my computer is connected to the router with the built-in ethernet hub. Normally my ping is about 25-50, but for about a week now my ping has been above 700ms and above, and it is causing severe issues with my system and running my games. I have tried resetting the router, different ethernet cables, blahblahblah, and nothing has happened. Anyone know what is going on?

I would use a switch not a hub.

 

[voyagerfan99]

I would use a switch not a hub.

It's a router, not a hub or a switch.

 

[C4C]

are there other open programs the OP is running while gaming?

Skype, Teamspeak, other internet programs or streams?

 

[Geoff]

You still haven't posted a speed test or ping test..

 

[voyagerfan99]

You still haven't posted a speed test or ping test..

This was the speedtest from his Steam Server thread.

 

[Geoff]

While his connection is slow, his ping on that test and from a ping to 8.8.8.8 shows that his ping in general isn't a problem. My guess is that he's just using servers far away from his location.