i've been getting kicked due to packet loss a lot recently

[elxir]

is there anything game-side i can do to alleviate this?

[Karl]

If you're using wireless (802.11a/b/g/n) try plugging in with a good cat 5e ethernet cable.

[mikesol]

I've tried this. I've been plugged in via ethernet all day and I repeatedly get booted from most servers. Ladder simply turns into ip and the joining thing spins. This only started occurring in the past week or so. I can barely play any games because of this =/

[Karl]

have you tried http://www.pingtest.net/ to check if it's your internet connection?

You can also log into your router and find out the IP address of your gateway and then open a command prompt and type "ping -n 1000 <ip of gateway>". This will tell you if your ISP needs to come out and fix something.

[mikesol]

Originally Posted by Karl

have you tried http://www.pingtest.net/ to check if it's your internet connection?

You can also log into your router and find out the IP address of your gateway and then open a command prompt and type "ping -n 1000 <ip of gateway>". This will tell you if your ISP needs to come out and fix something.

Yes. I have 0% packet loss. 68 ms ping. 4 ms Jitter. Grade of "B"

When i type the ping command it pings around 4 ms average. Is there something I should be looking for?

[Karl]

Yea, you would be looking for packet loss, it seems like your internet is perfectly fine. Perhaps the Ladder servers or some router in between you and the Ladder server is having issues.

Try "ping -n 100 -l 200 66.252.74.8" and see how that goes. That's the IP of the Ladder server.

[elxir]

Originally Posted by mikesol

I've tried this. I've been plugged in via ethernet all day and I repeatedly get booted from most servers. Ladder simply turns into ip and the joining thing spins. This only started occurring in the past week or so. I can barely play any games because of this =/

It also started recently for me.

I'm checking the pingtest thing now.

Can you explain to me how I log into my router?

[elxir]

ping 371 ms jitter 26 ms

is that bad

it couldn't measure my packet loss

testing on the montreal servr 250 miles from me

second test

ping 499 ms jitter 8 ms

still unable to measure packet loss

brooklyn server 200 miles from me

damn you comcast!

[Tekn0]

Hmmm... doesn't your ping command show you packetloss??

Here is my ping for example:

x@y>ping  google.com
PING google.com (xx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from xx: icmp_req=1 ttl=50 time=36.1 ms
c^C64 bytes from xx: icmp_req=5 ttl=50 time=30.9 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 20212ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.369/31.825/36.110/2.164 ms

EDIT: I realized you're probably on Windows, doesn't it have a "pathping" command which shows packetloss over multiple hops?

[shrode]

Try Pingplotter

It's a nice program that never makes you buy the full program It will show you your ping to each hop as well as packet loss and whatnot.

And yeah, u can do the same thing through windows console but this is pretty and a lot easier.