choke in online gaming

Soldato
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Lo all, I posted this in the PC Games section but I think this might be a better place for it.

I've got a Netgear DG834G v.2 router and I'm on Pipex 1Mb Broadband.
At the moment I'm the only computer on the network and I've got Wireless access turned off.

The netgear router management *thing* gives this info:

ADSL Link..............Downstream.........Upstream
Connection Speed...2272 kbps............288 kbps
Line Attenuation.....33 db..................9 db
Noise Margin..........29 db..................30 db

Hope that makes sense. It seems a bit odd that it's reading 2mb download but Im sure I've only got 1mb. I've just run a bandwidth checker and it's reporting 400kb/s download speed which is crazy.

Anyway thats not the real problem. When playing games I'm getting serious choke in Steam based games it sits at about 3 and spikes up to 15-20 :o

My rates were set to 20k 100 100 and I read on the Steam forums that if you lower updaterate and cmdrate that it should fix the problem. However, it only made things worse the lower I made the rates the more choke I got and at default settings it was sitting at 20 odd and spiking over 30.

Something is very wrong. My ping is fine (around 30-40) does anyone have any bright ideas?

Cheers

Panzer
 
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Thanks Phnom,
Unfortuantly I'm having some trouble with Java at the moment. All that link does is cause my screen to go black and windows crashes.
I've tried re-installing java both the latest sun version and WVM neither of which helped. I've tried re-installing firefox and that didn't help either.
Lime wire does the same thing and I believe that is java based.

Any bright ideas on how to fix java (without a format) before I can sort my net connection lol.

Cheers

Panzer
 
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Try setting Anti-Aliasing to application controlled? Then try

1. Start->Control Panel->System
2. Click the Advanced Tab
3. Click the Environment Variables button
4. Click the New button
5. For Variable name:_JAVA_OPTIONS
6. For Variable value:Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
7. Click OK button.
8. Click OK button.
9. Click OK button.

If that doesn't work try -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
 
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Just to be clear, you're getting 400 kilobits/s from the tweak tester, but getting 100-120 kilobytes/s from fuller.zen.co.uk?
 
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Might be worth trying a BT Speedtest (see FAQ) - bear in mind you should get results in the realms of 2Mbit/s.
Are you running the latest version of the Netgear firmware too?
 
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Thanks for keeping up with this Tolien.
I updated the firmware and ran numion because I couldn't find the BT one in the sticky.
Numion says:

Download speed: 1,489.23 kilobit/s (186.15 kilobyte/s)
Upload speed: 239.01 kilobit/s (29.87 kilobytes/s)

How does that compare?

Cheers

Panzer
 
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Well 186 kilobytes/s is faster than 1Mbps, so it's...good.

thing to try is the BT Speedtester, if you’re using an IPStream-based service.
You can find instructions for using it at Plusnet's Usertools and Zen Support.
This test eliminates the ISP’s side of things, so if you see speeds lower than expected, then it's are as a result of something between you and BT’s network. The most likely cause is congestion on the Virtual Paths at your exchange.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6350693&postcount=3
 
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hehe you lot are confusing me with all these numbers. Thanks for the BT speedtest links. I must be blind.
Anyway I did what it said and the result was: 1905 kilo bits per second (Kbps)

I will have another blast at CS:S and see if I'm still getting choke.

Cheers fella's

Panzer
 
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No idea whats going on but I've tried CS again and im still getting a steady choke of 1-3, spikes are reduced aswell, havn't seen it go above 10 but it's still a pain.

What else can I try?

Thanks for your contiuned help guys

Panzer
 
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