• tk464
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Topic: Abnormal Ping

When I play First Strike two things tend to happen that don't happen in any other of my games(BF2142 included). One is my ping tends to be around 180-300, when I usually get anywhere from 70-90. The other is it tends to spike for no apparent reason, jumping randomly from upper 100's to upper 700s. I've tried disabling my firewall , although it should be noted it seemed to make no difference from playing with it on and an exception added. It also seems to possibly jump higher the closer I am to other players, but only at very short range.

Any advice?

  • From: U.S IL
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Re: Abnormal Ping

Were are you located? You might be playing on servers farther away then in your other games.

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Re: Abnormal Ping

Near the west coast. I suppose it could be the problem but very few servers ever show up at my usual amount of ping, but then again there aren't that many to pick from.

  • From: U.S IL
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Re: Abnormal Ping

Yeah most are European.

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Re: Abnormal Ping

I feared that might have been the case. It's a shame there's not many populated West Coast area servers, or even East Coast.

  • From: Idaho
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Re: Abnormal Ping

What kind of connection have you got? I live over in Idaho and i can play on the populated servers over in europe with an "alright" ping. I'm on a 1mbit connection aswell too.

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Re: Abnormal Ping

The DS server is American afaik, though at the moment its only playing Yavin.

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