Sutek Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 I'm getting very odd, very long lag spikes with a duration of something like 2 minutes with gaps of perfectly playable time of around 1-2 mintues each. During the lag spike I can see the others on the server moving around, although they jerk about as if my ping was stupidly high instead. I get a constant "Connection Interrupted" message flashing and can't do anything at until it frees up again (which occurs some 10-30 seconds after I'm dumped into spectator mode). I *only* get this problem while playing on JediMod 1.2 servers, but I've never played this mod before (so I don't know if it's endemic to the mod). A few other people seemed to be having similar problems but not as extreme. I'm running on a cable connection to servers with a low ping (under 100), and the mod seems to increase my ping by about 50% in general. Is this an old problem? What could be going on? It only occurs on JediMod servers so it's obviously something to do with the mod - but whether it's my computer not liking it or what I don't know. I have my data rate set as if I'm using a 56k modem - anything higher and I get saturation problems (probably due to the fact that the connection is shared and the gaming machine is not the server, but the other machine is idle during all this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutek Posted August 18, 2002 Author Share Posted August 18, 2002 An addendum: The JediPlus 3.1 mod is very similar in the way it works to JediMod 1.2 (I think they are coded by the same people). For some unknown reason the lag spikes I get using JP 3.1 are significantly shorter (1-2 seconds as opposed to minutes), and occur very infrequently. I don't know if this has any bearing on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutek Posted August 18, 2002 Author Share Posted August 18, 2002 Ack. Well after some further testing I discovered some old Q3 console commands and used them to get soem more info. My problem is not that I 'm not sending anything, but that the server seems to be dropping ALL my packets during the spike. And then it starts picking them up again. and then it drops them again for a while. Continually. Wtf is going on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Maximus Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 I run a server with 1.2 on it and get no problems. Make sure to set your rate to 25000, snaps to 30, nudge to around 50 and packets to around 30. That might help. You may also need an atilag script. Get it from the scripts thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutek Posted August 20, 2002 Author Share Posted August 20, 2002 I found out yesterday that it's nothing to do with my machine after all - the local router is having SERIOUS problems (packet loss goes up to 100% at semi-regular intervals) and this is affecting everyone using BY cable in this area. I'm warming my BBQ kit up in case they drag their heels over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Maximus Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 I hate it when they have those types of problems. They think its no big deal even if it screws up your stuff. Plus try and get your bill prorated for the time it was screwed up..............like that will ever happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutek Posted August 20, 2002 Author Share Posted August 20, 2002 Their policy is to only give refunds for periods where a full 24 hours has gone by without any connection, and I had *some* connection, it was just unsuable for gaming. Bah. Even more ironic is that I just got back from an interview for a job there. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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