Please help me with my HIGH ping! :(

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Copied from my own post on the Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Forum. Everyone seems to be too busy talking about the game than to reply to my thread and helping me out. So I figured I would also post it here.

I have had the same problem with Counter-Strike: Source. Every server I go to, I get a ping from anywhere between 200 and 1000. I don't know what the problem is, and I am tired of it. I have done many things to fix the problem, but no luck has arrived. Can someone please help me with this?!
I really want to experience Counter-Strike: Source and, especially, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch in all of it's glory.

Here are my PC specs:

P4 2.26 GHz
768 DDR-SDRAM (PC-3200) [CORSAIR]
ATI RADEON 9800 PRO @ XT speeds
Updated everything
I run Half-Life 2 @ 2X AA and 4X AF in High Detail.
It runs rather smooth in Half-Life 2.

The things I have done to try to resolve this frustrating problem :flame: :
-Called Comcast (my ISP) and told them about the problem. They were no help at all and barely knew what I was talking about. :hmph:
-Turned down most of the video options and resolution to see if I would see an improvement in latency. Nope. Not at all. ;(
-Took speed tests online and ping tests. The results were superb.
-I have set my Internet connection speed in Steam to LAN/T1 > 1M. Where it should be.
-I have pinged many sites, also resulting in superb results.
-I have inputted the following into the console: "cl_updaterate 60", "rate 20000", "cl_cmdrate 60", and others. Again, no such luck.
-With "net_graph 3" enable in the console, my "choke" and "loss" stay a steady 0.

Any suggestions on helping me with this annoying and frustrating problem of mine?! ;(

ADDED: I have also ran Spybot: Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware SE Personal, AVG Anti-Virus, and CCleaner.
 
mayb steam dling crap? HL2DM will lag however good your connection - the servers cant take it or the netcode is appalling....
 
.ñµkËz said:
mayb steam dling crap? HL2DM will lag however good your connection - the servers cant take it or the netcode is appalling....
Steam isn't downloading anything on my computer. It's already done!
Just as I have said, no matter what server I connect to on either CS: S or HL2: DM, I still have a high ping. :(
 
Check for spyware

joule said:
Steam isn't downloading anything on my computer. It's already done!
Just as I have said, no matter what server I connect to on either CS: S or HL2: DM, I still have a high ping. :(

Check if your computer has any spyware or adware
download Ad-ware se, spybot search and destroy

a very useful tool is spyware blaster
 
Does this happen in CS 1.6? Any other games besides the ones on Steam?

It might be your ISP strangling the ports that steam is using. My ISP used to do that. The ports may be open, but with a speed-restriction.
 
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