Connection problems

[EverClear]

I have a little jerking/freezing that happens about every 10sec and really does it when I'm in the middle of a battle. The funny thing is, my ping is fine...It never spikes. On good servers I get 40 to 60 ping on oversea type stuff I get 120 to 150.. No matter where I play or what version quake. I get the same thing.. I have 3meg cable and it shouldn't be doing this at all..
Any suggestions?

everClear

[joao93]

Computer specs?

[Canadian*Sniper]

Same things happens to me. When I use Darkplaces, that never happens (it does something so you never notice it).

[Net-Tyme]

Computer specs would be useful.
Have you done any driver updates? Windows updates?
Does this happen on other games and surfing? Or just Quake?
What are you using? JoeQuake? GLQuake? GLPro?

[EverClear]

Computer specs....

Hey guys,,

2.5 ghz celeron
1 gig of ram
radeon 9900 I believe..

my connection is moody.. sometimes online it is slow and sometimes fast. Again, on quake it works good then all of a sudden laggs out, without a ping spike.. Could it be a bad Coaxial cable or a bad splitter?

EvercLEAR

[joao93]

Your PC is much better than mine. Wait for Baker to solve this.

[R00k]

Does this happen also playing single player?

If so, then it could be external apps hogging the resources, or your cache settings too low, try -mem 32 or -mem 64.

[Solecord]

I'm having a similar issue. I reset my wireless network up yesterday and been having problems since. Are there any settings that I need to make in Quake or in my router to opimize game play online for Quake? I never had a problem before... I don't remember ever doing anything in the past when I originally set up my wireless network.

What happens is every 90 to 120 seconds I get a lag spike. The little phone cord icon appears and stalls for about 5 seconds and then the game returns to normal. Happened on crctf.clanhdz.com yesterday and Shmack today. I tried playing F.E.A.R. today and did not notice any problems... any ideas?

[Solecord]

Hrmm, for my issue I set up my wireless network to use WPA encryption security which said it refreshes every 3600 seconds. That could have been the problem. I just changed that to use WEP security instead. I'll test it and see if it fixes my lag problem.

[Solecord]

That didn't help me This sux

[Baker]

Hrmm, for my issue I set up my wireless network to use WPA encryption security which said it refreshes every 3600 seconds. That could have been the problem. I just changed that to use WEP security instead. I'll test it and see if it fixes my lag problem.

You might consider disabling the encryption entirely!

You just want to keep other from using your wireless, right?

If so, turn off the encryption and enable the MAC filter and type in the MAC address of the wireless computers you wish to permit access (A MAC address is a unique hardware number for your wireless adapter.)

To find your MAC address, do Start -> Run ->CMD (press Enter) and on the DOS screen type IPCONFIG /ALL.

It will display info like this:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Cont
roller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-74-BD-13-65 (<--- MAC address!)
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 64.233.222.2
64.233.222.7

[Baker]

Could it be a bad Coaxial cable or a bad splitter?

That would affect everything, not just Quake. If speed tests show that you consistently are getting fast download/upload speeds, like the one at dslreports.com then the issue probably isn't a physical cable or splitter your connection. http://www.dslreports.com/stest

You aren't using wireless according to your post as far as I can tell, my wild guesses would be the following:

1. You have some application in the background using the internet intermittently or using a lot of CPU cycles. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and click on processes and see if anything has >0 CPU cycles but do Google homework before playing around with that. Make sure you close everything before starting Quake including instant messengers, browsers and such.

2. You have an engine specific settings problem but you didn't post what you use so it's hard to know, but if you altered your FPS and have it set to high that can be a problem.

3. Zone Alarm is a really bad firewall for gaming from my experience and that of other's I have seen post about it. Not likely the issue, but just throwing that out there.

Like what Rook said, unless your problem is #2, looking for an external application is your best bet. RealPlayer, Flash Player, Quicktime and a ton of other applications like to run in the background and over time you can accumulate a ton of junk applications running in the background (including poorly written ones).

[Solecord]

I changed my network to your suggestion above Baker, thanks.

Aside from that I'm still having connection problems. Nothing has changed other than the fact I reinstalled my network. I've even upgraded the firmware for my router after having these problems and that did not help. Is there anything else than can cause such a problem?? I can't play Quake now because every minute I freeze for about 3-5 seconds and it's really annoying

[Baker]

Aside from that I'm still having connection problems. Nothing has changed other than the fact I reinstalled my network.

Does it happen if you run an ethernet cable from your router to laptop?

I use a simple no software LAN setup, I don't share files or anything else nor are drives accessible on other computers and no changes were made in the control panel. Just a router and ethernet cables.

It sounds like your network drivers/software are sending traffic, do the number of packets increase when you right click on your wireless connect and do Status (it shows at the bottom).

/I have yet to find a non-annoying way to truly network my computers without creating a kludge of a mess (where either it hogs resources, is fragile or slows things down) so I don't. I use Windows XP Pro and am convinced that Microsoft knows nothing about networking (the instructions are ridiculous), but maybe I'm all wrong. Either way, I have almost no experience with running a true "network".

[Solecord]

I have a wireless network and a PC (no laptop). Everything seems to work fine other than when I load Quake. Perhaps it's happening all the time and it's just that I don't notice it because while I'm browsing webpages it may "lag out" when I'm not requesting a page or something?