[cod] Cod4 Pings unusually high

[Geoff Goas]

cod4 servers ping about 20ms higher than previous titles

On Feb 9, 2008 7:21 PM, Jon Adams <dooku at ner-clan.net> wrote:

> I had heard of a ping-bug on some servers, relating to the way in which
> the server deals with pings - it's possible you are pinging well - but the
> game is telling you otherwise. I had thought it had been fixed, but you
> never know! perhaps it's worth some restarts, clearing out logs etc - also
> try throughout the day, see if there is a pattern? Ping is a strange thing
> indeed, and people tend to get there numbers jumbled - so I suppose what I'm
> saying is to really scrutinise your ping over a few days/weeks and report
> back if there still is an issue. You might find that you play COD4 at 9pm
> and then switch to TF2 later on, when you're ISP is less likely to throttle
> back bandwidth.
>
>
> On 10/02/2008, Matthew Driscoll <retaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I'm running cod4 and a Team fortress 2 server on a dual operton with
> > 2 gigs of ram and my cod4 server is 40ms higher than that of my tf2
> > server on the same box. That's all I'm running and its a fresh install
> > of centos on a dedicated server. I think I have all the ports open
> > right. From xfire, I see that both the pings are similar at about 60.
> > However, when I'm in the cod4 server my ping is average at 90-93 and in
> > Tf2 my ping is 50-55 average. Anyone know what may be the problem?
> >
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