PS3 game speed probs

[pete1336]

Hi all,
Been a while since I've posted on here and as such I'm not upto speed on current network problems.
Over the last weel or so my youngest son has complained to me that the internet connection when he is plaing call of duty online on his PS 3 is slow. I'm content this isn't a reduced net speed problem per se as I'm still able to download in excess of 700kb per sec.

My router stats state the following:

System Up Time 10:23:17
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 394 3323 0 1 12 10:22:40
LAN 10M/100M 973 19643 0 15 35 10:23:09
WLAN 11M/54M 0 0 0 0 0 00:00:00

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 6944 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 34.0 db 20.0 db
Noise Margin 9.5 db 24.0 db



The only thing I've done within the last week to my system is updated the router firmware. Is there a problem with game speed, are others experiencing a similar problem or is it likely to be my router firmware update?
Thanks all,
Pete

[drphibes]

Hi

I have been playing cod4 on my ps3 and everything is fine on my adsl24 connection. The speedtest picture in your post shows a ping of 38ms so that should be fine for online gaming with little lag. Maybe you could try various games to see if the problem is just on one particular game ?

[pete1336]

Thanks for your reply, the original signature is now very old, I've attached one today today where the ping is much slower. I did the same this first thing this morning and the ping was 130ms. Is the ping the likely cause of the problem?

[hemlock2005]

I play COD4 & COD WAW on my PS3 online and pings of anything above 45ms start to cause lag issues, 85ms plus and it's almost not worth playing, and in the 100ms+ range deffo not worth playing, have you powered your router down for a couple of minutes since you updated it? Maybe just needs a power cycle to kick it back into touch.

[ckupris]

Pings from speedtesters are pretty unreliable, mine is 10ms faster doing a test directly via the command line.

[drphibes]

Pings from speedtesters are pretty unreliable, mine is 10ms faster doing a test directly via the command line.

Yes it is always better getting your ping result via the command line. The lower the ping the better your chance of success online, in cod 4 you can use the select button when you are playing and it gives you an idea of your connection with a 4 bar system. 1 orange bar is useless, 2 yellow is just about ok, 3 green is fine and 4 green is great. Not sure if the games you are playing have a similar way of testing your connection while you are playing.

[pete1336]

Thanks for the further replies. When playing the game it usually shows 3-4 solid bars in green which I'm aware indicates a good strong signal.

I've reboot my router this morning. Via the ping command I did this test:

c:\>ping flexisoft.com

Pinging flexisoft.com [69.24.65.97] with 32 bytes of dat
Reply from 69.24.65.97: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=115
Reply from 69.24.65.97: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=115
Reply from 69.24.65.97: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=115
Reply from 69.24.65.97: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=115

Ping statistics for 69.24.65.97:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 140ms, Maximum = 141ms, Average = 140ms

This seems a bad result to me. Should the ping be this high, is this worth raising a ticket?

***Update- I also did this which seems much better

c:\>ping adsl24.co.uk

Pinging adsl24.co.uk [84.234.16.39] with 32 bytes of
Reply from 84.234.16.39: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=58
Reply from 84.234.16.39: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=58
Reply from 84.234.16.39: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=58
Reply from 84.234.16.39: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 84.234.16.39:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% lo
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 21ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 21ms

This results seems much better, I'll ask my sone when he can to see if game lag is still present.

[drphibes]

Hi

I just pinged the flexisoft.com and got a 140+ ping and then adsl24.co.uk and got a ping around 30ms. So at least the high ping to flexisoft is not confined to your own connection.

[ckupris]

The 140ms ping might have something to do with the flexisoft.com host being located in Dever, probably a good 4000 miles away....


ckupris@allah ~ $ traceroute flexisoft.com
traceroute to flexisoft.com (69.24.65.97), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 11.430 ms 10.845 ms 10.321 ms
2 lns08.inx.dsl.enta.net (78.33.38.158) 30.379 ms 31.409 ms 35.332 ms
3 gi4-41.interxion.dsl.enta.net (78.33.38.157) 36.247 ms 37.682 ms 39.154 ms
4 te2-3.interxion.core.enta.net (87.127.236.209) 40.165 ms 41.230 ms 42.141 ms
5 Vlan512.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net (195.219.83.9) 44.423 ms 45.353 ms 46.335 ms
6 xe-10-2-0-edge3.london1.level3.net (4.68.63.105) 47.889 ms 41.077 ms 29.245 ms
7 ae-34-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.139.97) 31.459 ms 31.015 ms 32.396 ms
8 ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.78) 112.574 ms ae-43-43.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.74) 114.422 ms ae-41-41.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.66) 106.875 ms
9 ae-3-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.93) 113.544 ms 115.356 ms 116.016 ms
10 ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.190) 116.894 ms ae-64-64.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.178) 118.886 ms ae-74-74.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.182) 130.447 ms
11 ae-82-82.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.153) 119.671 ms ae-62-62.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.145) 103.146 ms ae-72-72.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.149) 109.927 ms
12 ae-2-2.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.69) 121.977 ms 123.017 ms 122.261 ms
13 ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.113) 127.968 ms 126.338 ms 127.283 ms
14 ae-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.61) 167.471 ms 165.127 ms 166.013 ms
15 ae-21-52.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.38) 164.384 ms ae-21-54.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.102) 163.703 ms ae-21-56.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.166) 166.745 ms
16 DATA393-HOL.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.79.80.14) 162.682 ms 171.547 ms 148.267 ms
17 208-42-224-141.static.data393.net (208.42.224.141) 163.972 ms 161.957 ms 163.072 ms
18 208-42-239-161.static.data393.net (208.42.239.161) 151.175 ms 151.844 ms 154.969 ms
19 216.239.226.186 (216.239.226.186) 163.107 ms 156.919 ms 157.930 ms
20 69.24.65.97 (69.24.65.97) 159.907 ms 161.460 ms 162.210 ms