Unstable Ping Times

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I just got switched back to roadrunners 10/256 connection. as i was on their 15/1 connection. And honestly i don't know why I switched or why I even thought about it. But  then again theres the money issue. Anyways I'm getting horrible ping times and i have no clue why I'm getting these. In-game I'm going from 40 ping to around 340 dropping then regaining the 250 range and dropping and so on. how in the world do i get this to stop? !!!

I've included the norms

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 9320 Kbps about 9.3 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

Download Speed is:: 1138 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2007/03/03 - 9:22am

Bottom Line:: 163X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.9 sec

Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 10.688 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 97.75 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-P6JRBYF4T

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2 [!]

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Upload Connection is:: 197 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 24 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)

Test Time:: 2007/03/03 - 9:23am

Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 42.67 sec

Tested from a 579 kB file and took 24.032 seconds to complete

Upload Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 47.58 % of your hosts average (rr.com)

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-JW9O73T5I

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2 [!]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:Documents and SettingsJake>tracert www.testmy.net

Tracing route to www.testmy.net [67.18.179.85]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    10 ms    13 ms    9 ms  10.109.112.1

  2    10 ms    9 ms    8 ms  fas2-6.rochnymcd-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.105

]

  3    6 ms    8 ms    8 ms  srp7-0.rochnymth-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.119

]

  4  135 ms    32 ms    6 ms  srp3-0.rochnymth-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.177

]

  5    19 ms    17 ms    18 ms  rdc-24-24-7-58.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.7.58]

  6    27 ms    29 ms    28 ms  te-3-2.car1.Boston1.Level3.net [4.79.0.69]

  7    49 ms    53 ms  114 ms  ae-7-7.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.242]

  8    52 ms    *      41 ms  ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.41]

  9    81 ms    73 ms    71 ms  ae-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.61]

10    78 ms    71 ms    72 ms  ae-1-100.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.37]

11    82 ms    72 ms    72 ms  ae-2.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.106]

12    69 ms    70 ms    71 ms  ae-14-53.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.80]

13    76 ms    78 ms    85 ms  THE-PLANET.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.2]

14    68 ms    78 ms    69 ms  te9-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.14]

15    78 ms    83 ms    74 ms  vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83]

16    70 ms    70 ms    77 ms  gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8

5]

17    74 ms    76 ms    77 ms  55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]

Trace complete.

[Swimmer]

well it looks like you are dropping packets into chicago.. which is out of your control..  The only way to improve pings is to play on a closer server... My guess is that what ever server you are playing is on a fairly busy network..