A terrible problem

[Ghost]

I signed up for the forum because for a while now I've been having an awfully debilitating problem with Haxball that is making playing the game extremely difficult. Essentially, in a majority of rooms my ping will do this:

See poll - I can't post images >_>

It spikes very consistently about every 10 seconds or so. This is odd for a number of reasons:

-It doesn't just happen in foreign rooms, it often happens in UK rooms too
-Although it happens in a majority of rooms, it doesn't happen everywhere - some rooms are fine
-It's also weird because the spikes are so consistent and usually aren't followed up, proving they're just an anomaly rather than actual lag
-I've tried a variety of ways of fixing it, including changing the options present in the image above, but nothing works
-This only started a few months ago, before that all rooms I could join worked fine

Does anyone have any explanation? Has anyone had similar problems and knows a way of fixing it? If so I would be very grateful as this problem has become very annoying as you can probably imagine.

E: Can someone move this to Haxball Discussion if possible? I seem to have misplaced the topic D:

[Ghost]

Can you post some pingtest.net & speedtest.net results?

[Griffin]

Are you using a wireless connection, and which operating system are you running?

[dora da gora]

your thread title makes it seem like you've murdered someone and don't know where to hide the body or summink

[Vermilion]

Pingtest is erratic - it went from a B to an F to a C. When a room works though it works well, I rarely get noticeable lag, especially within the UK, unless I go too far away as you might expect.
I am using a wireless BT connection and Windows Vista.

Thanks to whoever put the image up btw :)

[Griffin]

I suggest you connect your pc to the modem/router via an ethernet cable and test it that way before you do anything else.

[noj]

Yea definitely sounds like some sort of network interference. Would changing network channel sort this out Griff?

After doing the ping test it gives you a 'Forum Link' which you can copy. Can you do that and then post it here?

[Lloyd Banks]

have you tried turning it off and on again?

[Griffin]

Yea definitely sounds like some sort of network interference. Would changing network channel sort this out Griff?

It's possible and worth a shot, however I have seen this kind of thing before with some wireless adapters - some drivers can cause Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC) latency - this is most noticeable in audio streaming etc.

A tool to check this can be found here http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

It that is the cause, you can try updating the wlan driver.

Also Vista and a few other Windows versions have an issue with wireless authentication - see this following post for a potential fix PCHelpForum.

First things first though, try with an ethernet cable.

[Lloyd Banks]

your flux capacitor might need de-fragulating, have you tried altering your waffle sprocket?

[MoMo]

your flux capacitor might need de-fragulating, have you tried altering your waffle sprocket?

nt sure if srs :s

[Mick]

oh banks you do realise you have to fragmentize your ultra sonic re stabilization cable first before altering such a sprocket.

[Ghost]

To be fair, I like the idea of de-fragulating things.

[opc]

Defragulating wouldn't be of use in this case. Might need to recalibrate his ding dong.

[Lloyd Banks]

your flux capacitor might need de-fragulating, have you tried altering your waffle sprocket?

nt sure if srs :s

oh i'm deadly srs momo

[Lloyd Banks]

oh banks you do realise you have to fragmentize your ultra sonic re stabilization cable first before altering such a sprocket.

killed it s0n