CS:S Major Lag

Hey guys,

I'm at school, and I'm directly connected (Cat6 cord) to a T1 internet connection. Unfortunately, I lag a lot on CS:S (200-300 latency), but when I play another game like DOD:S, I am perfectly fine. Any way around this?

My connection speeds:


When I play at home on a DSL connection, I get latency around 90-115.

 

could just be your playing on a server thats too far away.

 

^True but I always play the same server whether I'm at home or at school (2-3 mile difference).

 

Aye, but depending on your routing and connection, that same server could be being accessed a whole lot differently.

It might be 2-3 miles from your home and school, but your home ISP could have much better bridging links, much quieter bridging links, or much closer links than the one offered by your school, if its anything like UK ones, they'll be routed through a large scale education infrastructure, which lets be fair is hardly going to prioritise your CSS traffic; it might be 50 miles of cable from your ISP to the server with not much inbetween, with your college connection it could be 1000 miles or so, with lots of stuff in between! Try other servers.

 

But do they know it's CSS? I mean, yeah they have people monitoring, but do they have enough?

These days they'll have iPod Touchs, iPhones, Laptops and various other devices accessing their infrastructure. No way they can spot one man's CSS traffic.

 

Are your temps within normal ranges?

 

Yeah my temps are perfectly normal.

Thanks for the advice. I played tried another iceworld server and my latency is much lower but I still lag a little bit (ranges from 80-150). I'll look for more servers.