Ping?

**Vlade.the_medic** · 12-25-07, 12:57 PM

Man my ping is messed up it goes from 50 to 233 then back to 49 and then to 143? Any help?

**Tamato24** · 12-25-07, 06:45 PM

Are you running any background programs like a Torrent, limewire, or anything else?

**Devost8r** · 12-26-07, 04:45 AM

Do you have a wireless router? If you do then your neighbors are probably grabbin their internet from you for free. This will kill your ping.

If this is the case then you need to encrypt your wireless network and you'll be fine.

**packetshooter** · 12-26-07, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Vlade.the_medic

Man my ping is messed up it goes from 50 to 233 then back to 49 and then to 143? Any help?

Sounds like you need to go see a "Ping" doctor :-O

All seriousness, what does your traceroute look like? Need more details also who is the provider? Mine at Comcast has been mucking with their routing lately where I was going to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and then to Texas...way too many hops. Its fixed now but you can figure all that out with a simple trace. You can obfuscate the first part of it if you want but really need that info on hops and route to answer that question or at least rule out that it's a net problem.

Cheers,

Packetshooter

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 12-26-07, 03:07 PM

I would speculate that it is a background process on his machine rather than a routing problem with isp. The jumping around is the reason why.

room\house mates on shared connection

Torrents?

Something else trying to connect behind the scenes?