Ping

[SnoMan]

is there a way to lower ur ping while playin a game, i finally got off my a$$ and hooked up my xbox to the internet to play some halo through xbconnect my average ping i would say is between 90-100 but sometimes it jump up to 300-400 during gameplay....soo ya

 

[Eguy]

Is there someone else using the internet while you play? to get a good ping you must have full access

 

[SnoMan]

through my actual internet connection?? nope just me

 

[roscoe2000]

Probably not the best answer but you mayt need to look at changing your ISP.

Bit OT - Is there a common IP address or server that people ping to test their ping times?

 

[SnoMan]

im limited to ISP, only two in my area, 1 cabe and 1 dsl, and to see what my ping is im just goin by what it shows on my pc screen when i have my xbconnect running while playin halo

 

[FragTek]

It's tough to get a steady playable ping over Xbconnect... I remember when it first came out and getting on a forum discussing the benefits/downfalls to it.

The biggest downfall to the whole internet play system on games that aren't made for XBL is that they aren't designed to be playable with pings over 5-10ms since you don't get anything higher on a local network. I gave up on Xbconnect about a week after it came out, no need for it anyhow I had 4 xbox's setup at the house for gnarly tournament action

 

[Dav0s]

you need to connect to servers local to you, not ones on the other side of the world.

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Yes, as Dav0s says, connecting to local servers will be better for pings, and cable is usually better. However a ping of 400 is terrible, and 56k would probably be better than whatever your on .

 

[SnoMan]

ill try to stay to the closer severs to my area to help, i have dsl since i dont like cable and the ping of 400 or so is rare but i did see it a couple of times

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Its possible that your adsl provider uses the BT Datastream network, which isn't as good as the IPStream network that is now more commonly used, which provider are you with?

 

[SnoMan]

like i said only two provider in my area so i dont have much of a choice, there called Frontier communications

 

[Phnom_Penh]

I couldn't find anything on them tbh, and their website doesn't work either, but if your ok with them, thats all that matters.