Quake 3 High Ping

Post by **HolyShnikes** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:12 pm

I have just started to play this game again after many years. However this is my first time playing online without a crappy internet connection. I have a local high speed cable modem hook up but I am sad to report that my ping is usually about 180 +. I am not sure if there is something I should be doing to get it to run better or not. My Counter Strike Source game runs fine at like 30 which is normal. I have tried disabeling my firewall, internet and making sure that nothing was running in the background. I even changed my video settings down (which is crazy cause I have a 256mb card)

Does anyone know what might be causing my ping to be so high? I called my ISP and they are suppose to send someone over. But the last time they did that the guy didn't do squat and left with no answer to my question.

Post by **Foo** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:57 pm

Your ping will depend on the distance to and quality of connection to the server you're playing on. What's your ping time to the server's IP address from outside of the game i.e. in windows?

Post by **HolyShnikes** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:56 pm

How can I check for that? Do you mean in the cmd prompt to "ping [IP Address] and get results? Or do you mean something else? Thanks for the reply.

Post by **Foo** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:58 pm

That's the one

Post by **HolyShnikes** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:31 pm

I tried two different ones. Both of them timed out every time. I can connect to them in the game, but not ping them.

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C:\Users\Nathan & Amanda>ping 216.12.96.42

Pinging 216.12.96.42 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 216.12.96.42:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Users\Nathan & Amanda>ping 87.165.242.110

Pinging 87.165.242.110 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 87.165.242.110:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Post by **Foo** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:14 pm

Check your Firewall (windows firewall I would guess, in control panel) to see if ping is allowed under the 'ICMP' settings.

Post by **HolyShnikes** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:45 pm

I am not sure how to check that in Vista. I can go to administrative firewall settings and check the protocol for quake 3 which is UDP and TCP (there are two quake 3's listed).

I could change it to ICMPv6 or 4.

But I am not sure what to do about it really.

**EDIT**

I checked and there are no outbound connections for quake 3 but only inbound protocol's.

Does this matter?

Post by **Foo** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:50 pm

Ah, I assumed you were on XP.

I can't advise on Vista, sorry. Going to have to leave that to someone with more experience on it than I have.

I do know that there is word of issues with Q3 on vista, but that's as far as my knowledge goes on the subject.

Post by **HolyShnikes** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:13 pm

Sorry I should have mentioned it before. But the settings seem similar. Could you maybe just give the XP instructions maybe and I could see if they are the same or similar in vista?

Post by **Cooldown** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:01 pm

You can try messing around with the Q3 net settings i guess

Enter the following in the console (press the tilde (~) key to bring it down)

/rate 25000
/cl_maxpackets 100
/snaps 40

Also I suggest using a game server browser like QTracker or All-Seeing Eye as opposed to the in-game browser, if you aren't already.