I do have to agree with you franky, however, it is difficult to prove anything as there were other racers on the server who did not disconnect and others that did. Most people stayed connected (there was about 15 people in total including host). I personally disconnected three times over the period of 1 hour, only once was in the middle of a race though. Then later I connected to another server with 3 other racers and stayed connected for the best part of 1 hour with no problems at all.

I want the problem to be something that is in my control, but I fear that it is out in the wild blue yonder of the mass of inter-connected routers and server they call the Internet.

Tim

Afaik, the bars at the bottom work like this:

Each connection has two bars, and instanteneous one and an average over a few seconds (you can tell which is which by which one moves the most). The left two are the person at the top of the connection list (usually host iirc), you are the green one, and it's in the order of the connection list.

If I'm wrong (and this is from memory of what Scawen once said) then feel free to correct me.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Afaik, the bars at the bottom work like this:

Each connection has two bars, and instanteneous one and an average over a few seconds (you can tell which is which by which one moves the most). The left two are the person at the top of the connection list (usually host iirc), you are the green one, and it's in the order of the connection list.

If I'm wrong (and this is from memory of what Scawen once said) then feel free to correct me.

Thanks Tristan, is it the smaller the bar the better or the other way around?

Tim

Smaller the better yes, also if you are lagging your bar (the green one) would be rising above everyone elses and turning red while all the others stay normal. If all the bars rise and turn red its someone else or the server I think

OK, thanks guys, lots of info there and things to try and things to monitor. Now I need to be at home to test. What a shame, more online racing... oh well

Tim

OK, here is my tracert to that IP address:

Tracing route to 193.23.224.153 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.100.1
2 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms lo2.lon-th1dgw.uwclub.net [217.154.190.33]
3 20 ms 52 ms 24 ms f1-0.lon-gs1pbr.uwclub.net [217.154.140.254]
4 347 ms 457 ms 263 ms osm-g4-1.lon-th1br.mistral.net [217.154.71.2]
5 191 ms 21 ms 18 ms osm-g4-1.lon-gs1br.mistral.net [217.154.71.1]
6 116 ms 18 ms 19 ms ge-1-2-0.414.ar2.LON3.gblx.net [67.17.212.173]
7 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms so1-0-0-2488M.ar3.LON2.gblx.net [67.17.71.1]
8 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms tiscali-1.ar3.LON2.gblx.net [208.49.136.66]
9 19 ms 20 ms 20 ms so-3-1-0.lon22.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.80.30]
10 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms ge0-1.lon.rapidswitch.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.78.194]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 22 ms 20 ms 23 ms 193.23.224.153
Trace complete.

This implies I go a long way to get to this server, could be part of the problem. The mistral.net ones seem to be the biggest problem. Hmmm, more testing.

Tim

Quote from t1ger :

This implies I go a long way to get to this server, could be part of the problem. The mistral.net ones seem to be the biggest problem. Hmmm, more testing.

If I posted a tracert of that IP from my location, I think you would redifine "a long way"

From here I get about 420ms ping response to that IP and that in itself doesn't prevent me from racing or cause me to show any lag whatsoever to others

I think you will find lag issues come from other problem areas in your path, which tracert can help you find. e.g. an overloaded router which will cause lost pakets, another one could be noise (interference) on cetain segments of the signal path which can cause corrupt or lost pakets.

So if you have these types of problems, try gather as much info as possible (helps identify patterns e.g. at certain times of the day a particutlar router might be unable to cope) and then armed with that info contact your ISP tech support and see what they can do

It does look like 217.154.71.2 is not performing well and that is definately something to highlight to your ISPs tech support.

Thanks B2B@300

I have upgraded my routers firmware (for what its worth). Still more things I can try though.

Tim