Weird Network problem

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Powell

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I noticed this yesterday when I was having problems with BF2. I have always noticed a decent amount of lag in WoW, but Im usually not sure what causes it. Well I decided to ping my router and my average time was about 10ms or so. So I'm thinking wow thats not good. Well I rebooted my PC and it was fine, actually let me play the game, etc.. Well as I played for about an hour I noticed some little lag (but my ping was 50, but the game got really choppy, etc..) I alt+tabbed and brough up a ping -t to play while I was playing and here are the results
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It does this over and over! Sometimes the -90ms ping times will come in groups of 30 or 40 INSTANTLY (the <1ms are on normal pace as a ping, but the others just pop up instantly). Though it kinda gradually goes into this. It starts at like -17ms and then works it way up. Then my ping to my router will finally go up after running for awhile. Usually to around 7-10ms. The Network cable is 50ft, but thats still not enough to cause a problem. Just to test my Wireless connection pings perfect (to the same router).

The system is a Asus A8N-SLI Premium with a Athlon 64 X2 4200. The video card is a XFX 7800 GTX, 2 gigs of ram, etc.. The operating system though is XP64.

Has anyone ever seen this before.
 
Also I have the same network cabled plugge into my laptop, an IBM T41, and it has no problems at all. Ping is perfect so it rules out the cable.
 
Try updating your NIC drivers.

What kind of router?, try pwr cycling router/modem, etc.
 
Drivers are the new nVidia nForce and the other brand network port is also updated. Router has been restarted numerous times trying to figure this out :(
 
Which NIC is connected?, Nvida?, try the other one...

Do you have a software firewall, ..or the nvidia firewall turned on?, if so... disable it.
 
While I went to class I let it stay on a constant ping and the -90ms instances have gone away.. Now its just on a constant 12ms ping to my router. While my laptop, which is wireless to the same router did the same thing is <1ms. Earlier today I swapped the cable to my laptop and pinged for about 2 hours while using and it never broke <1ms.
 
I've tried it on both NIC's. Since they are different brands, I do have the latest drivesr. Windows firewall is turned off. I've searched for a nVidia firewall option but I do not have one, but I figure if i was plugged into the other port it shouldn't have any problems..

Now I do have a Lan Status option in my bios. When I was in that the last 2 fields like Lan (10-12) (12-14) or something like that it came up as SHORT. Not sure what that means though.
 
What other devices do you have connected via ethernet cable? You might have a device with an excessively "chatty" NIC creating excess traffic.

I had a similar problem to this a while ago, ping times in WoW of 2000+ (and yet I still played, god I need a life. :D). It ended up being a faulty network cable to my printer. Once the cable was replaced, everything was fine.

If your PC is the only thing plugged in, replace the cable with a different one or connect your laptop up via the cable and see if it gets the same slow ping times as the desktop then you know it's the cable.

I doubt it's the router honestly though, wireless and wired connections share the same internal fabric on nearly every wireless router. If the router was failing, the wireless should have excessive ping times as well.
 
I plugged the cable from PC to my laptop and did not have any of the similiar problems, which makes me wonder also.
 
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