Ping Help

[Tex]

Our server is running on the same box as UO, the UO pings are fine, but COD2 is running over 100, and players come in and it shows high pings as well. There is no lag though, it runs very smooth! Any chance of a false reading from the server? How do we fix it? All other games on the box have normal pings but COD2!!!

[Alfur6]

I have the same problem, work great with uo but geting high ping with cod2.

[rudedog]

Could be another bug. Someone on the COD Linux mailing list said CoD2 was reporting erroneous CPU usage. I wonder if this is related?

I will add it to the bug list I am sending IW. Is this a windows or Linux server?

[UnDead]

I noticed on average I ping 10 to 20 over my normal CoD ping to same server. CoD2 is a Bandwidth hog like UO was with Base Assault. Try setting rate to 18000 or a 32 player server.

[Tex]

We got ours splved! It was just a couple of bad nights of high pngs for some reason!!! I also set my graphics card setting down a bit and my frame rates settled down. My ping is back to where it should be and the server has settled down as well, so things are smooth!!!

http://www.tntblowout.com/texsig.JPG

[Alfur6]

I am using windows 2003 22 players and max rate 20000


but I seams too me that in cod2 ewryone has higher ping then in cod uo

[dope]

I'm also experiencing high ping issues on our server. People who normally get a ping around 50 now have as high as 130-150 ping.

I've tried different max rates but nothing seems to make a difference. The server is running on a p4 2.7 1 GB RAM box (Windows). My internet connection is 10/10 Mbit fibre so it shouldn't be an upload issue...

Also, our CoD UO server is running just fine ....

Any help would be appreciated cuz I can't keep the server online in such crappy state. :(

[MacArthur]

I noticed on average I ping 10 to 20 over my normal CoD ping to same server. CoD2 is a Bandwidth hog like UO was with Base Assault. Try setting rate to 18000 or a 32 player server.

Did you take any readings of the traffic in/out from the interface on the system hosting your CoD2 server, so that you can provide some specific numbers for bandwidth utilization?

I remember when I had a BF2 server up it seemed to use about 400kb/sec of bandwidth with around 30 players. From readings I took with about 30 players on CoD2 it seems that CoD2 uses half of what BF2 did with a maxrate of 25000.

[Defcon|Rich]

Most likely it is just botched netcode. Most newer games go through this phase it seems until a few patches can get released..

Ping rates are not really a science. Sure they are a good indication of latency to a location but the way the internet works ping is the last thing on the list that gets updated.. It's considered a "low priority" item for lack of a better term ;)