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Since the beginning of this week, around mon or tues, I started to experience heavy lag through a fpsmmo game I frequent and on my 360 as well. In the pc game(I play on its east coast servers because LITERALLY NO ONE plays the west coast ones), my ping usually ranged from 80-100 and if it ever went higher than that it was due to higher pingers within the same game, aside from that there weren't any issues. Now I'm getting like 160 ping in pretty much any game I join within the mmo. Lag and warping(teleporting; form of lag) included. On top of that, the same lag and warping occurs when play mw3 online.
Determined to get to the bottom of the issue, I did a series of speed tests on speedtest.net though various cities across the nation. These were my results:
First thing to try is unplug your modem and router for at least 60 seconds.
In some areas you can leave it unplugged for 3+ hours and end up with a new IP address.
How is your overall Internet connection to any other site? You might also want to run the speed test at different times of the day for comparison.
It might be the servers you are connecting to that are having the bandwidth issues. Also with online gaming, things can get tricky, for example, I would have a very good connection to a server game server but when someone with really high ping/latency joined from BFE, everyone would start experiencing lag. So one bad apple can drag the rest of the people on the same server.
If your connection overall seems to be dragging, then you might want to reset your router/modem as mentioned. Also do a ipconfig /flushdns from the command line window. More importantly, check with your ISP to see if there are any known issues. You could also check to see if there is a firmware update for the modem as well.
One time my connection started to suck bad and even disconnect me intermittently and cycling the power on the cable modem would help but it eventually turned out to be that my cable modem that has been working great was no longer compatible with Cox network service due to the changes that made to their infrastructure shortly before I started having the odd issue out of the blue. Solution? They replaced my working Toshiba cable modem with a Motorola one for free.
First thing to try is unplug your modem and router for at least 60 seconds.
In some areas you can leave it unplugged for 3+ hours and end up with a new IP address.
And in some places you can leave it unplugged for a week, and you will NOT get a new IP.
If you want a new IP, change the MAC on the internet side of your router (use the clone MAC function) then power cycle the modem and router and you will get a new IP almost every time.
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