Ping rates and competitive play

[Raven Gold]

I've noticed lately on the CoD4 servers that more and more player are joining with ping rates hovering around the 20 to 40 ms marks, and I feel that this is a strong, unfair advantage and ruins the competitive aspect of the game for those players who are still stuck at 70 to 90 for whatever reason (Yes, I'm one of them, but I'm not the only one.)

I've come around many a corner, unloading nearly half my clip only to die and the killcam shows I haven't set off a single shot. I bet you can immagine how frustrating that it. I dunno, this is mostly a rant, but maybe, I'm asking for a solution on my end or a tweak on server's side that would balance out the pings.

 

[Spartan]

No tweaks server side would decrease your ping.

Are you playing on stock cod4 or do you run a custom config?
What kind of connection do you have?
Rig specifications will help a bit too.

 

[Raven Gold]

Only change to my config I do through the console and thats the fov, otherwise system specks are fine, and the connection is a 384kbit WebAfrica uncapped line.

What I mean by server side tweak was something to increase everyones ping to a minimum of 50 or 60, I've heard of server hosts doing that to prevent what I was ranting about.

 

[R4C3]

Only change to my config I do through the console and thats the fov, otherwise system specks are fine, and the connection is a 384kbit WebAfrica uncapped line.

What I mean by server side tweak was something to increase everyones ping to a minimum of 50 or 60, I've heard of server hosts doing that to prevent what I was ranting about.

you should look at your max packets settings

 

[Spartan]

I think you misunderstand how that works.You can't really just increase player's pings like that.Not on a game server like COD4.You can add a minimum and maximum ping setting.So anyone in those two marks will be able to join the others will not.

Reason why I ask about the rig is.I want to know your fps.
So you haven't changed your maxpackets or packetdup commands at all?

 

[Xero]

Raven, we got what you meant, it's not possible, you cannot enforce ping increases to clients on a game server, you can route their traffic through a bunch of loops ot make them balanced out, but no such setting on game servers exist, any host that tells you that they do that is either flat out lying or is really confused about what they THINK they are doing

I think you may be thinking of something called Double Ping, which is a feature of CoD engien games, I'm afraid that it is already active
It balances out Client/Server latencies and provides a stabler experience

On the Other side of the coin, do you kow how hard it is if you have a lower ping to play vs guys with higher ping ?
Keep in mind latency works both ways, and guys with 100+ Latency are impossible to kill sometimes as their latency prevents their client from detecting hits :/

Have you tried another account though ?
There are frequently issues with local ISP's (All of Them) and their traffic to OTHER ISP's

 

[C-MAN]

Raven do you live in CT? If so then i know how you feel coz if i want to play with my 384 on WAGE servers i avg around 70-80 ping which threw me off my game many times before... I would suggest as mentioned above by xero using another account and if the problem persists maybe upgrade your line :?