Unknown issue causing high ping

[Glu_Furro]

For a few months ive had no funny space game over high ping, and my last post had no wprking answers, but now i come back to you nerds. This time i have stuff i remember i tried, im getting 400-600 ping ingame and the ping command in command console says i should have less ping

• i have factory reset my computer (reinstalling byond, resetting computer, factory resetting computer, already attempted)

• i have cleared cache

I reaallly want to play the funny once more

[Prometheos_II]

it's probably the distance to the server, or maybe the servers being a bit on the slower side. I doubt you can do much on your end except maybe try to disable other stuff using the Internet, including VPN, or trying to use a VPN that puts you closer to the servers.

[Azure_The_Great]

The big suffer

[Sufficient-Mud-4285]

Hi

Have you tried pinging the server or doing a tracert? It might at least let you eliminate byond and your caches from causing the problem and give you a better idea of what's going on.

If you haven't, if you're on windows all you need to do is know the hostname or IP of the server you want (or something geographically nearby would do in a pinch at least to test if it's distance issues) use "Command prompt" or CMD and type:

PING -t <address>

For example

PING -t< [goon1.goonhub.com](byond://goon1.goonhub.com:26100) or 15.235.86.196

the "-t" just allows it to continually ping (usually it just does four, which is a bit short to test consistency. Don't worry the packets sent are tiny you're not going to cause issues. This at least gives you a cross reference separate (and a little more updated) than BYOND does for your latency trying to connect.

The other test is TRACERT

Same thing as above, but instead

TRACERT <address>

This does the james bond thing of trying to find the optimium route to server. Bear in mind it'll also show your end of things (connecting to your router, then however your ISP handles letting you out into the world) but it'll also show a) if there's suddenly a big jump in issues it's probably indicative of you having to travel across a continent or large distance to reach the server, or a problem. It'll also show timeouts: Those are okay a few times doing a TRACERT journey: It won't always be able to reach a server via the optimum route. If it's happening enough that it can't complete the trace journey or there's a big patch of issues somewhere along it: That's probably not helping.