How to do a Tracert (lag / packetloss test) :!:

[}TCP{Carnage]

As promised here ya go

It is quite straight forward u download the little program attached and unzip that one and open it .

Then add the server ip in the box on top and click start
Let it run for a couple of cycles so u can see a clear difference as where things go wrong (see screenie)

As u can see there i get a no response from the first hop but in my case not a problem simply coz my router doesn't respond to things like that so it basicly get's interesting at hop 2

I've let it run 100 times (actualy goes quite fast)

The thing u should be looking for is the Sent and Recv parts because this shows u the packets send to the server and the number of packets who actualy arrived .. thus the name packetloss

The other 3 things next to that are the ping times
Don't take these to seriously because some routers have a low priority to ping's and will wait a while to respond .. this is no problem as long as all the packets get thrue ..

Kee with that sorted let's take a look at the screenie i made
I did a tracert to the New 32p ONS server and as u can see there where no packets lost , which is how it is suposed to be


the ip's of our servers are :


The 32 p Onslaught Server : 82.94.203.162 .. port not needed:8318
The TAM #1 Server = 82.94.203.162 .. port not needed:8218
The TAM #2 Server = 80.60.208.39
The TAM #3 Server = 85.146.168.150
The 12 p Onslaught Server = 85.17.209.25

Hope this helps a little bit

Cheers
Car..

[the_kay]

Oh, nice

It's free software

[}TCP{ZzCaT]

Whatever happened to the good old command line tools...

tracert, ping ???

[Taz]

People of the world want things to be easier, like that..you dont go to tv to turn it off, you have a remote control for that, right

It's like a sign of..lazyness :\

And some people dont even know of those command lines, like the Cee..who was a worthless toad who couldnt figure out why my ping was messed up, but Carnia came to the rescue

[}TCP{ZzCaT]

And some people dont even know of those command lines, like the Cee..

I suspect that even Cee's toilet has a GUI!

[}TCP{Ramses]

LOL

[}TCP{Skarijscout]

LOL

[}TCP{z1on]

So here's my tracert. It seems like I dont get packetloss at all but I still keep teleporting when playing? What could it be, ZoneAlarm?

[}TCP{Coco]

True, no packet loss, but apparently some evil ping spikes. The "worst" column shows pings around 1000.

You could probably try to verify this by opening a DOS command prompt and type:

Code: Select all

ping -t 85.17.209.25

It's the IP of FunHouse #4 - you can try any other one as well, of course. However, just let it go for a minute (or even longer) and see if the ping values are constant or if you get spikes similar to the ones in the "worst" colunm inbetween.

P.S.: You can stop pinging with CTRL+C.

[}TCP{Snowbird]

I got rid of Zone Alarm a long time ago. I was having the same problem. There is a package that keeps getting larger as you play. I do not remember anymore what it was called.

[}TCP{Ramses]

Zone Alarm can clash (or used to clash) with some of the free anti-virus programs ... it seems to work fine with Avira.

[}TCP{Snowbird]

Had that one also. I got rid of them both, back around 2006-2007, because it was slowing Unreal down to a stop.

I can verify this with Jochen's (Krabbelricher) computer. He also used the Avira, and the Zone Alarm.

I do not remember the name of the file that kept on getting larger as the game went on, but if I saw it I could tell you right away.
My computer had stopped working, and then I used my second screen to find the problem with the "task explorer". That particular fie
went beyond the compacity of my system, and crashed unreal.

[}TCP{Coco]

Must have been Zone Alarm then, because I'm using AntiVir even on my laptop and can usually play without problems.