German with 150+ ping on EU server

Trotim

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That one guy is me.

Since about December last year, the EU TF2Maps.net server gives me a ping of 120 or higher. It worked fine before. Did it change location back then?

For the record, I'm located in Germany, Saxony and can connect to other close UK servers like Hampshire Heavies with a ping of 30.
 

drp

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can you guys run a trace to the gameservers ip and post the output here? need something to throw at our host when i go
 

Trotim

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tracert.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2536778/tracert.jpg
 

Barracuda

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I'm in Germany, too and my ping is fine... sounds like a routing problem caused by the provider, as said before.

Here's my tracert in comparison:

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Aug 19, 2008
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looks like the ping is increasing every interval :(

i´m from germany too, würzburg, and i always have max. 50ping, no fastpath (or whatever it is called)
might be a firewall issue
i sit behind a router with no firewall active (used to have comodo until it hung up my complete system)
try forwarding the tf2 ports on your router or accepting all connections via this port on your firewall without backchecks
how about other games? are you getting the same issues?
-friends downloading/surfing/streaming at the same time
-someone hacking into your wlan-connection
-connected via weak wlan

:( hope you get it fixed
everything about 100 makes spy/soldier/sniper hard to play
 

Trotim

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how about other games? are you getting the same issues?
It's just TF2 and only the EU server (at least that I know of, there might be other servers that SHOULD give me a low ping but don't, I can't know that)

But I suppose playing around with the ports and firewall is not a bad idea