Getting mad and inconsistant high and low ping lag? What to do?

[thriftyone]

Hi,

Have 2mbit uncapped broadband and dont download just use for gaming. When playing BF2 get low and high ping on low ping servers. This has happend after reinstalling the game. It played fine then got corruped and now after reinstall I get this mad high ping at one moment then low ping next moment. This is on UK servers that was playing fine before.

Installed latest 1.41 patch!

Another small problem is i've installed official Highway tempa map and still get message after logging in to the game asking if I want to download this map. Even thought I have downloaded it, installed and played on it! How to get rid of this message?

Kind regards

Eric

 

[Rad]

I doubt you can get rid of that message, its battlefield and they were always like that. After getting BF2142 I still always had the "Buy 2142 now!" window until it was replaced by the highway tampa screen.

Ping spikes have always been a problem with BF2, seems to have been fixed in 2142. I still haven't figured out why it happens but it happened all the time on my old computer. I upgraded to a dual-core processor and that fixed it, thats all that was changed.

My friend had ping spikes too, but he has a new ISP now (Previously Charter, now its Bellsouth).

Make sure your firewalls and antivirus are turned off, which honestly I doubt is causing the problem.

Do you have a router or are you directly connected to your modem? If so read the following

Spoiler

It never hurts to forward your ports. Battlefield2 (and 2142 I believe) uses these ports:

UDP ports:

* 27900
* 29900
* 29910
* 27901
* 55123
* 55124
* 55215
* 16567
* 1500-4999
* 18060

TCP ports:

* 80
* 29900
* 29901
* 29920
* 28910
* 4711
* 18060

Yeah, its alot of ports. You can merge some of them if your router supports it. Example: 28100, 29900, 29901, 29920 can all be changed to 28100-29920