High, Fluctuating Latency. Please help.

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When I log onto ICO, and view the info screen for me in the lobby, my latency is always pretty low (30s, 40s) but when I go and try to play a multiplayer game, I always lag a lot, and my latency fluctuates from being as low as 40 to in the 7000s (this changes over a couple of seconds). Obviously I can't play a game with that much lag, nor do I want to do that to the other players, so I quit. Don't worry, I haven't tried to played more than 4 times, and each time I did something beforehand that I thought would fix it.

I already did all of the stuff in the Monk's guide, and I tried closing any non-system processes that were taking up a lot of memory, but I still can't figure this out. I have two 2-core processors, 2gb of memory and an Radeon X1900 XT video card that should definitely be able to handle this game (and it does it very well in single player). I also have a very fast cable connection, and live in southern Connecticut, if that makes a difference.

Can someone please help me out? I love this game but I'm already starting to get sick of playing against the AI, and if I can't play multiplayer I'll probably have to abandon SoaSE. Any help would be impossibly appreciated. Thanks. :)

EDIT: Forgot to add that, as far as I know, I don't have these kinds of lag problems with the other online games I play (but they're all server-based, not p2p)


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Could be your ISP is doing P2P-traffic filtering/shaping? Although, asking them if they're doing it may or may not yield an answer.


I'm sure as you've stated you did everything in my guide that you have in fact disabled any hardware firewall on your router (SPI) while gaming in SINS?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I'm sure as you've stated you did everything in my guide that you have in fact disabled any hardware firewall on your router (SPI) while gaming in SINS?


Crap. Sorry, I forgot to mention that my router is actually designed to be a firewall (I think... it either says its name is "ProSafe VPN Firewall" or it says it has a "ProSafe VPN Firewall"), so as far as I know there is really no way to turn it off. Trust me, I've looked at every page on my router and can't find any off button for the firewall. I have, however, forwarded the ports and even tried a DMZ (although if sins doesn't use any ports other than the ones you specified, DMZ wouldn't be any different from port-forwarding).

I have contacted my ISP and they said they don't do P2P filtering. So I guess that leaves me with a router problem. Unfortunately, I'm not really the person responsible for the router so I doubt I'll be getting a new one anytime soon.

Oh well, I guess I'll be doomed to an eternity of single-player (:( .
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