This might be why I'm so bad at CoD

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it also has a lot to do with the player and not just the connection.

im not the best player in the world by a long shot.... ok im crap but i got a brill connection and im still getting lockups,connection drops,unable to connect and all in cod mw2

 

That;s cause there are no dedicated servers. Even the best connection will get crapped out.

I'm getting an A grade and playing COD4 amazingly with no lag or pressure on a wireless connection. Can't say the same for MW2. Ugh.

 

Usually I get "Unable to Connect to Host" for the first 15 matches I try to join, only when I'm lucky do I actually get to play... When I sit on the same floor as my router I get a 14ms ping accord to pingtest. When I'm on the second story of the house it goes to about 40-50. When I'm in my room it goes to ~100.

 

Exactly.

This is why many people chose to boycott MW2, crappy P2P matchmaking for a PC title is ridiculous.

 

Hmm, mine's not great. Surprising for someone who lives out in the sticks though.

 

Yeah, the whole IWnet is really annoying, I'm very rarely in the top 5 now because of the lag in most matches. What is really lame is that every game I've played with a good ping and am going against one player who is laggin, I almost always lose.

Every game I've been in today (about 10 matches, 8 different hosts)had a horrible host and everyone was laggin and would eventually lose the connection.

Not really anything you can do I guess, so I started playing COD4 more, and am also doing really well.

Here is what I get:

 

Just gotta hope this is something they address in a patch...

 

I should win a prize or something.

 

Im usually the host in MW2, so i can share the love!

honestly mw2 isnt that horrible, sometimes its weird and funny but not too often that we dont enjoy gaming, im part of Team Flawless and we can ground war 9 people at a time IN A PARTY, EVEN while most of the clan members are scattered around America and Canada!

They didnt do a horrible job, they just could have done better

 

hmm weird i have the highest score here, and my internet shuts off for a split second every time the phone rings..
and steam dl speed is never over 400 kbs..

 

+1 I can attest for that. I played with tf a few games, and it was bad. Lokster you're not play MW2 on that 4500 are you?

 

steam for me downloads average 800kbps, if the server isnt clogged 1.1mpbs average. GTAIV on sale took forever to start but once started average 800kbps. took like 4-6hours hahaha

HELL NO, i game on my Intel dual core 2.0 ati 4850 4gb ddr 800 500gb hdd 20" 2.1 altec desktop! my laptop = work if i gamed on my laptop i would get no work done!

add me up lokster86 i play tf2 also im in Quadrons Clan Team Flawless, www.teamflawless.com, i game when i can ^^

 

lokster, we are friends already... You told me your brother is going on your account and told me not to invite him to any games because you don't want him messing up your stats, remember?

 

Best I got on steam DL was 1.5 mb/s (and to this day i am still in utter amazement on how it is possible for me to download at 1.5 mb/s wirelessly, imagining all that data flying through the air, the walls, your body....weird) I remember when I was happy to download music on WinMx at 7kb/s...not so long ago.

Anyway on topic, MW2, yea I get the odd "picking new client" thingy, but to be honest, I prefer it that way. Faster to get in the action, not too much lag, and it forces me to play map randomly.

 

Well, your ping and your DL rate are unrelated, your DL speed really depends on wether you got a 100mb fibre optic connection, or a 2 mb adsl.

 

yet my ping in 99% of games for some reason is over 100...only on some servers in l4d2 does my ping ever drop below like 120 oh..and I'm prolly the worst one here at any FPS..lol

 

i did not know that hahaha,

 

I play CoDMW2 fine most of the time. I might be hosting a lot of the time and that's why it's fine? How do you tell if you're the host?

 

<50 miles is childs play. Go big or go home

 

lol

 

I had no idea Rogers high speed was actually good.

 

Where the heck do you live? Christchurch? Invercargill?

 

whoa, 10ms

 

My internet isn't so great... and yet i get such a high score... 2MB/s... Broadband in UK sucks...

 

Your internet is at least decent. You got an A. The OP got an F, and if you have a bad connection, you will do worse in MW2.

 

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Packet loss of 13%.

/wrist.

 

You must have something set up in your router that might be messing with your connection.

 

Lag is a HUGE issue on consoles.. the servers are terrible or something. I'm lagging every game I play, yet every online game on PC and every other game on Live is perfect.

 

New ISP, not too bad. My old ISP has 2x the ping.

 

2 Megabits/s or 2 Megabytes/s?

Your internet is actually pretty good.

 

2 Mb/s is the norm for broadband in the states. At least according to the FCC.........

 

It is important to remember that these ping tests are done by pinging a dedicated server, and the amount of data is pretty small.

Now imagine that the ping test was hosted on someones residential connection, and that instead of one connection, there was 11 people all trying to run ping tests at exactly the same time using the same server. And then assume that the server is maybe doing torrents at the same time, or someone is using youtube in another room, or the computer is running a game at the same time and doesnt have a lot of CPU cycles to spare. And then, just for fun, imagine that the bloody server keeps changing half-way through your ping test.

This is a pretty good analogy for IW.net Thats why a simple ping test of your own connection isn't a reliable indicator of the game quality in MW2.
I can get great pingtest results, but my experience of playing MW2 is horrible and laggy.

 

2 Megabits? If so, then that's really bad. My ISP average is something 5.5 Megabits.

 

at least I'm not the only one with packet loss

anywhere between 1% and 10% here...

and a Jitter as high as 77 ms...

 

MW2 sucks for me too. And this is what I just got on a 10Mb/s line.

 

2 Megabits or whatever it is for internet speeds...

LOL in Uk the government is still aming to reach 2MB/s for everyone... It's still way slower than in Singapore... u could get 100MB/s and now u can get 1GB/s.... maybe i should live in Korea... best internet connections there... US and UK= internet connection fail...

 

Oops havent checked this topic for a few days now Check the miles in the screenshot i posted

 

This is my connection at school, way better than my house:.

 

Mines pretty good.
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Hooray for me.

 

Woot! New ISP!

 

I've yet to seen anyone top my 6ms ping! Wooo haha (I still suck at CoD lol)