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A 3on3 needs about 15kb/s upload. You have ~16kb/s upload. I don´t see, why your ping would be so extremely high. But your ping to the nearest server at speedtest.net is very high. Do you have other persons using your connection at the same time?

In a 3on3, does every player has a 2k+ ping while you´re hitting tab? If there are only a few, or only one, this guy is probably from an other country and your connection isn´t good enough to deal with this distance.

Every player displays a huge a lag of between 1000-3000, and in every game they all bitch at me and tell me to leave. lol. So I assume it's obvious there is something I'm doing wrong or it's just my connection. I just found out though, that my anti virus has a "p2p shield" and it was on the high setting. I am going to troubleshoot tonight to see if that was the problem... however as the other poster said, my upload probably just isn't high enough. I will post again with the results of turning off the P2P shield on my antivirus, but to be honest I'm pretty sure my connection is flat out the problem. I just really hope it isn't...

The same sort of person that needlessly comments on other people's bumping habits without adding anything to the thread?

To the OP: They're hardly panaceas, and the nature of your problem might be intractable with these, but have you tried playing games over GameRanger or Hammachi?

Not to treat you dumb but do you have security over your network. What mean by security like a pw and only certian devices with mac addresses allowed on your network.Someone next door could be useing ur network id\f you do not.

Also if your going wireless that may be the problem it should not matter but it could be.

This has been happening to me as well.  I *can* get some 3v3s to run fine, but then a few games will spike up.  I just now exited a game that ran ok for 20 mins, then 3k pinged me.  I exited so the other players could still finish the game.

I ran the broadband speed test immediately after, and got very poor performance (4megabit/down).  About 5-10 minutes later, checking it agian, it was averaging 12-14 megabits down (2.9 up) which is expected for comcast.

I'm wondering if all the p2p is just crushing the router?  I haven't tried doing it directly through the modem.  Or perhaps comcast is throttling me?

Also - it is worth noting that I *am* using a wireless connection to the router, though with those speed tests you'd think it'd be ok.

Just making sure I can get some help on the issue so I can continue enjoying my game. Why don't you go fuck yourself instead of bumping my post with a useless and idiotic comment. I hate idotic people like you, need to be shot and mutilated. Completely useless.

This is an issue with Demigod -and- Dawn of War 2, as soon as you reach a "critical mass" of players (usually 6, so a 3v3) the spiking occurs. I've run around in circles trying to identify the cause, the game, the connections, the players, the PC, the ISP etc etc. My current avenue of approach is that because the game is p2p and uses TCP/UDP as soon as you transfer to 5 other people, your ISP is flagging you as a filesharer and hitting you with a DoS attack (which then prevents you from sending any information at all, hence the spiking). I'm going through my send/recieve packets one by one from the last game i had to try and corroborate this.

Again, if this is true, you can avoid this problem using GameRanger or Hammachi. I can't play DG for a similar reason, that I get huge pings when I try to use the native netcode. However, I can use GameRanger to play DG.

Again, GameRanger is the only way I play the game, and I only play against purchased and fully upgraded players, so I can attest to the fact that there are people playing the game with legitimate copies.

At the very least, testing the game with GameRanger will let you know if it's an intrinsic issue with your upload speed or if it's possible that your network is just de-prioritizing P2P connections.

Of course! My name on GR is the same as here.

Though Frogboy was lamenting elsewhere that the community is fracturing due to things like GameRanger, I'm happy to have another legitimate person join up the GR Demigod community, so long as they can't play the game using Impulse.

I don't think the speed of your connection is to blame. I have the same problem as you with spikes, and my internet connection is better than yours:                                                               

Please note that it's the same server as you tested, but i'm from Europe, ~5650 miles away. And the spikes i get are with european players, not US players!