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[Mr_Shade]

Thank you
I discovered a possible hang-up with my ip satellite bandwidth allotment giving me a ping of 420+ ms on up to 742 ms to the east coast. My computer has a gaming score of 7 .60 & 7.20 over all score. I haven’t O clocked anything yet’ ---- might help a little? -- or not.

Judging by what you posted - your Internet is provided via satellite? - it can be an issue for all types of online gaming, due to high pings..

You should contact your ISP and see if there is some way to reduce that high latency on your connection.

[DryDryBones]

Judging by what you posted - your Internet is provided via satellite? - it can be an issue for all types of online gaming, due to high pings..

You should contact your ISP and see if there is some way to reduce that high latency on your connection.

As a previous user of Satellite internet I will confirm that this is the issue. Unfortunately each packet shoots up to space and then back down to earth(and then back again!). You will never see latency that is playable with a satellite service. Wikipedia explains it pretty well:

Compared to ground-based communication, all geostationary satellite communications experience high latency due to the signal having to travel 35,786 km (22,236 mi) to a satellite in geostationary orbit and back to Earth again. Even at the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s or 186,000 miles per second), this delay can be significant. If all other signaling delays could be eliminated, it still takes a radio signal about 250 milliseconds (ms), or about a quarter of a second, to travel to the satellite and back to the ground.[1] For an internet packet, that delay is doubled before a reply is received. That is the theoretical minimum. Factoring in other normal delays from network sources gives a typical one-way connection latency of 500–700 ms from the user to the ISP, or about 1,000–1,400 ms latency for the total round-trip time (RTT) back to the user. This is much more than most dial-up users experience at typically 150–200 ms total latency

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[SIZE=5]I am now getting over the “ time and a pot full of grief “ workout and updated an important driver, limited some more start up programs, and now waiting for some more GRO.
Thanks again for the help!
I will put up with my measly scoring till I can change ip's