Hello everyone! Ever since i started LFS i've been having quiet a bit of lag, pings are showing up at the lowest 160ms......this is what happens. I'll join a room and ther will be no lag, after a while the cars will flicker and the cars noise will sound laggy i guess, the noise isnt a steady rev its jumpy, its hard to explain, and after a while the lag gets worse and sometime leads to disconnection....so just tell me what i can do to fix this. MY isp is CenturyTel/Westell.....

Can you post your computer hardware specs please.

Internet lag shouldn`t ever cause your sound to go funky, it sounds more like something on your machine is causing the trouble.

Well. It's possible. The flickering I know from experience, severe lag can also cause the entire track vanish into thin air The engine sound issue is related: When you see other cars lagging (lag 0.xx), you don't hear their sound. Constant lag can cause the sound to behave like an on/off switch being toggled really fast, causing a stuttering effect.

The first thing to do would be to confirm this only applies to multiplayer, thus, it really is down to network lag. Go into single player mode, add a few AIs, does the same thing happen? Download a MoE MPR, does it happen then? If not, it's not an SP issue.

Then, more info on how you access the internet. OS, modem/router models, wireless or wired, what other applications are loaded into memory which access the internet. Automatic updates, torrents, downloads, uploads etc. can all cause huge lag and spikes. Turn them off. Trying to find the source of the lag, if you have a router, ping it. Trace the route to the master server, and ping that too.

Ping:
- open command prompt (start > run... > cmd)
* if you have a router, type in ipconfig; note the IP address for the 'Default Gateway' field
* type in ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the value of 'Default Gateway'
* After about ten pings, press ctrl-c at the same time to end the pinging
- type in tracert master.lfs.net and wait for it to complete
- also try pinging the master server, same thing as pinging your router, except replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with master.lfs.net

To show us the results, you can either take a screen capture by pressing the 'Print Scrn' button and pasting the image to a picture editor (like mspaint). Save the images as JPG!

Or you can copy the contents of the command prompt window by clicking the right mouse button > select all > highlight the section you want to copy > click the right mouse button anywhere on the text you want to copy > paste the results in your post

Or () save the results of the pings and traceroute to a file by adding > filename.txt at the end of each command. E.g., ping -t master.lfs.net > ping_master.txt

Ok i'm on my schools computer, when i get home i'll go through and see if i can do all that..thanks for the reply. Be back in about 6 hours lol...l8r

Ok, i'm at my house now, i'm at my grandma's house and i'm on windows vista. So how do i open control panel?....and i went to http://network-tools.com/

My router model is a westell versalink 327w

My Traceroute

72.160.27.64 is from United States(US) in region North America
TraceRoute to 72.160.27.64 [72-160-27-64.dyn.centurytel.net]
Hop(ms)(ms)(ms)
IP AddressHost name 191515
72.249.0.65 - 2111314
206.123.64.22 - 3184814
216.52.189.9border4.te4-4.colo4dallas-4.ext1.dal.pnap.net 4121937
216.52.191.103core1.tge5-2-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net 5223217
208.51.41.57ae0.411.ar1.dal2.gblx.net 6111416
67.16.132.194te1-1-10g.ar4.dal2.gblx.net 771218
192.205.34.141 - 8827574
12.122.86.150tbr2.dlstx.ip.att.net 9817475
12.122.18.245cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net 10747688
12.122.28.178cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net 111058884
12.122.31.134cr2.sffca.ip.att.net 12798695
12.122.31.193cr1.st6wa.ip.att.net 13807476
12.122.23.130tbr1.st6wa.ip.att.net 14787877
12.127.6.49 - 15106103103
12.116.10.130 - 16109101104
209.206.184.10ge-2-1-rb-bras.ka.centurytel.net 17409371315
72.160.27.6472-160-27-64.dyn.centurytel.net Trace complete




Ok right now i'm downloading a new lfs and gonna see if it'll make any diffrence....but for now i'll wait and then upload my ping pest.

That's a wireless router with 4 ethernet ports.
Are you connecting to the router using a cable or wireless?

Wireless most of the time, but even when i'm cable it still has lag....;-(
My ping test....this is the average ms i get for servers, i went to the same website and it was showin up around 20-30ms on average! so it might be my isp or something idk.

Ping 72.160.27.64

[72-160-27-64.dyn.centurytel.net]

Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 128 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 124 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 123 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 123 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 123 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 127 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 131 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 127 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 138 ms
Round trip time to 72.160.27.64: 123 ms

Average time over 10 pings: 126.7 ms

Since it's $45 new I'll assume it's rubbish.

Buy a Linksys or a Netgear. That may solve the problem in itself. No point having a good-ish (or useable) connection if you have a shitty router.

I'm using a .. uh.. Netgear DG834PN and a WPN111 Netgear wireless USB reciever and I recieve no lag whatsoever. Of course, my location helps, as most servers are hosted in Holland or here in the UK. Have you tried playing on a server hosted in the States? Click on the ping on the servers list so they get arranged by ping, join one that's ~60 and test it out.

(And no, if you do go and buy anothe router and it sucks just as badly don't blame me. :razz

It might of course be the servers you're trying to connect to.

I just got an average of 213ms when I pinged - 72.160.27.64, from here in the UK, and 31ms when I ping www.google.co.uk