Where do you live, my ping is at CZ servers also quite high also, as with other players.
Unfortunately, living in the USA and also closer to the server, have a higher ping.
Tells you your ping, how high he was ??
Possibly can set the Highping kick a little higher, unfortunately not all too much, then the server becomes laggy.
But nice that you still interested Vietcong, we are testing.
Did you have always so high ping or it was changed in last months? I know that there were some changes in network configuration between EU and USA so maybe Australia is also affected. Can you make tracert to my server IP and send me the output? I will check with my internet provider.
Maybe OndraG has also some new info, we tried to solve this issue several days ago.
Unfortunately still no reply from UPC... I'll have to remind them. But according to the screenshot posted, it seems Aussie Dave's connection is really bad, average ping being 400. My ping to servers in the CenTrio network is about 220, with packets being unreasonably routed through US (so the trace is CZ -> US -> CZ).
Aussie, you can post a traceroute to some VC server. For example run in the command line (cmd.exe) "tracert 144.76.195.131" and copy the result here.
Unfortunately, if your ping is to stay at the 400 level, you can't really play VC, not even Coop, you would shoot at an enemy at close range and you could have a chat with him before he gets hit. Well... he'd have killed you before.
switch of your W-Lan and play with RJ45 Network cable, that´s the reason for high ping, then your ping must be about
90-140 ms (playable), depend on your connection and hardware. On US/Australian servers you will have maybe a better ping. 10 years ago I played with DSL 1000 on US servers with ping 90-140 ms. You actually have on all servers ping 400 or more (screenshot). It´s autokick from Server, one shot and you will die 3 seconds later (lag) that´s why autokick from server (configuration).
I'm in Australia, I know i have a high ping, i also remember the days of playing VC on dial up lol.
I have no problems playing on the Black Pajamas server, it can get laggy for me but its ok.
You can read about me in your Vietcong\hradba\HradBa-readme.txt.
Ping shouldn't matter anymore with stuff all people playing this great game, when i ran servers for a ISP company we didn't worry about ping kick settings, we left it up to the Admins to manage it as it has to do with the amount of people on the server, the more people lower the ping limit kick for Admins would be used, as the netcode of the game is quite good for its time until to many people are in the server with high pings.
So the only server i can play on then is Headhunters?
Mite as well hang up my winchester 70 and throw the game in the bin?
Also i'm playing on a laptop.
Tracing route to mail.mycong.net [144.76.195.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 29 ms 30 ms 61 ms 251.2.2.123.network.m2core.net.au [123.2.2.251]
3 31 ms 32 ms 30 ms be2-v417.bsr02.melbpri.vic.m2core.net.au [123.2.
2.65]
4 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms Bundle-Ether18.lon77.melbourne.telstra.net [139.
130.198.249]
5 32 ms 64 ms 32 ms bundle-ether11.exi-core1.melbourne.telstra.net [
203.50.11.113]
6 47 ms 46 ms 45 ms bundle-ether12.chw-core10.sydney.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.124]
7 48 ms 47 ms 46 ms Bundle-ether17.oxf-gw2.sydney.telstra.net [203.5
0.13.70]
8 50 ms 45 ms 47 ms bundle-ether1.sydo-core01.sydney.reach.com [203.
50.13.38]
9 194 ms 195 ms 194 ms i-0-4-0-4.paix-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.
84.140.90]
10 203 ms 202 ms 203 ms i-0-1-0-2.eqnx-core01.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.
84.140.142]
11 204 ms 201 ms 202 ms i-0-4-0-1.eqnx03.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.84.25
1.42]
12 202 ms 201 ms 202 ms l3-peer.eqnx03.pr.telstraglobal.net [134.159.61.
106]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 420 ms 348 ms 349 ms ae-2-70.edge7.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.75
]
23 357 ms 356 ms 357 ms 195.16.162.254
24 357 ms 360 ms 379 ms core11.hetzner.de [213.239.203.137]
25 361 ms 362 ms 365 ms core21.hetzner.de [213.239.245.222]
26 359 ms 359 ms 358 ms juniper1.rz20.hetzner.de [213.239.245.166]
27 361 ms 362 ms 361 ms hos-tr5.ex3k7.rz20.hetzner.de [213.239.233.131]
28 363 ms 359 ms 362 ms mail.mycong.net [144.76.195.131]
Thanks for the trace route, Aussie. Well, those middle hops appear to be located in East Asia. According to some old (2009) forums I googled, it seems the route used to be led through North America. So neither is probably a lucky situation. Can't you move to a provider with better (closer or even direct?) connection to Europe? But I'm not sure if that's possible.
But according to the screenshot posted, it seems Aussie Dave's connection is really bad, average ping being 400. My ping to servers in the CenTrio network is about 220, with packets being unreasonably routed through US (so the trace is CZ -> US -> CZ).
