How can I improve my ping?

[Selena21]

How can I improve my ping?

Sometimes I play online games on maltese servers but compared to others,maltese like me and even the same isp I suffer a high ping over 100 while others are mostly under 50. My browsing is ok and my download is very good too ,so what is the cause of such high ping and how can I improve it? In an online connection test speed the result was that everything was ok except my upload which was very weak.Could this be the problem?

My OS is WinXP and I’m on ADSL
The advertised speed from them is 4096K unlimited
My isp is global.net.mt


SpeedGuide.net TCP/IP Analyzer
TCP properties for IP = xxx xxx xxx xxx ()
Browser/OS = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Notes: Read the Analyzer FAQ if the above is not your IP address.
TCP options string = 020405ac0103030201010402
MTU = 1492
MTU is optimized for PPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising MTU to 1500 for optimal throughput.
MSS = 1452
MSS is optimized for PPPoE DSL broadband. If not, consider raising your MTU value.
Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 257004
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits (scale factor of 4)
Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 64251

RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
511104 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
255552 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 4)
127776 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
63888 (MSS x 44)
bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your TCP Window limits you to: 10280.16 kbps (1285.02 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your TCP Window limits you to: 4112.064 kbps (514.008 KBytes/s) @ 500ms
MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

[trogers]

Try lowering your RWIN. Use the following custom setting with TCP Optimizer:

General Settings tab:
Custom settings - check
Modify All Network Adapters - check
network adapter selection - your NIC
MTU - 1492
TTL - 64
TCP Receive Window - 127776
MTU Discovery - Yes
Black Hole Detect - No
Selective Acks - Yes
Max Duplicate ACKs - 2
TCP 1323 Options:
Windows Scaling - check
Timestamps - uncheck
Advanced Settings tab:
Max Connections per Server - 10
Max Connections per 1.0 Server - 20
LocalPriority - 5
Host Priority - 6
DNSPriority - 7
NetbtPriority - 8
Lan Browsing speedup - optimized
QoS: NonBestEffortLimit - 0
ToS: DisableUserTOSSetting - 0
ToS: DefaultTOSValue - 80
MaxNegativeCacheTtl - 0
NetFailureCacheTime - 0
NegativeSOACache Time - 0
LAN Request Buffer Size - 32768
Then select "Apply Changes" and reboot to take effect

[YARDofSTUF]

Do you run zone alarm?

[Selena21]

Do you run zone alarm?

No I don't use it and when I play online I turn off the firewall and the AVG anti-virus and almost every program that I can turn off.
I did the above settings but didn't gain much .

[Sava700]

post a tracert to the server your playing on... let us see what traffic your running through.

[Selena21]

post a tracert to the server your playing on... let us see what traffic your running through.

Tell me how to and I will do it right away.

[YARDofSTUF]

To do a tracert, go to Start > Run > cmd and type tracert and teh IP of the server, hit enter and it'll list it out.

[Selena21]

[YARDofSTUF]

Whats your hardware setup like?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yes those 3x extra hops through the 192.168.xxx.xxx networks are rather...odd.

[Selena21]

[trogers]

Yes those 3x extra hops through the 192.168.xxx.xxx networks are rather...odd.

What this comment means is that IP address of 192.168.xxx are usually those of routers and your tracert shows your signal passes 3 of them after leaving your modem (10.0.0.138).

Such a case is highly unusual and makes me think that your internet connection is being eavesdropped. You have to make a physical check of your line. If you do not know how to do it, get your ISP tech to check your line.

[Selena21]

At home I have 3 computers which are connected as a network through a speed touch modem making the work of a router too so every computer has internet access by itself and does not need a mother computer to be "On" so the others have internet access and all gaining access through a port switch.When once I called my isp they told me that I have high ping because the broadband is being divided among three computers. I would have believed what his said but it was like that for years now and my ping was always under 50.It is now that something has happened that the ping is high!!

[trogers]

Normal router/modem configuration is for the tracert to first show one router IP address and then the modem before getting into the internet. Each of your comp should only show its own router IP address once before the modem.

Normal ping time for one comp at router would be <1ms and perhaps 8-10ms at the modem.

But your tracert shows signal leaving the modem and passes through 3 router addresses with ping time almost 50ms before even getting into the internet. This is your source of high ping time and an unusual signal path.

[Selena21]

Is there something that I can do so I can fix this problem or something that I can do so I could know if this is the cause for the a high ping?

[trogers]

I will leave the checking of your router/modem configuration to our forum moderator YeOldeStonecat as he is well verse in this area.

[YARDofSTUF]

So your setup would look like this?

[Selena21]

Exactly

[YARDofSTUF]

Are you trying to play on a server hosted on your other computer cuz everything seems local.

Do a tracert to speedguide.net

[Selena21]

No, I'm playing on a computer that is connected directly with a local server
"Call of Duty" on X fire
Server IP
217.168.160.209:28967
Server Name
Call Of Duty 2 V1.3 War Server Powered by BellNet
Server Ping
113
Server Info
mp_toujane (4/16)


Game Type
dm
Name Ping Frags
M.s.iCyFrA* 46 24
M.s.iB|@z3* 27 15
M.s.iMou]s[e 25 0
M.s.iA1I G* 29 0