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My ping is ridiculously high while playing COD4 online.
How can I reduce this?
Im using a wireless usb to our router

sit closer?..

wireless is always slower than wired, and always going to play victim to any environmental interference...

what line speed, which ISP, what router... these play a major part in the answers provided...

lowest line speed.
Telkom 3GB pm
GIGA_409AB7
Im sitting about 20m from the router

so... shaped, 384kbps?

yeah..

how high is your ping..
which servers are you attaching to, (i'm guessing saix)..
where are you located...
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also, is this out-of-norm or not?

it goes up to 999 but normally it was 350 average.
any server that allows me.
KZN - Near eShowe on a farm

i was guessing somewhere near 300... at 900 i would:
1) reset the router, (physically power it down/up).
2) use a physical wired connection to omit any local interference.
3) try swapping out PPPoE credentials, (if possible)
4) try swapping out the router, (if possible)
5) log a support call with telkom

has anything about your setup changed recently?

Nope. Still same. been the same for a month

nm..

Mike_J.M wrote:been the same for a month

then i would definitely get hold of telkom... may be something as simple as a port reset...

How can i see my ping without using a game?

via command prompt probably best

Ping the server name you are linked to. Or try the "tracert" command, might be a hop somewhere giving grief.

Networking beginner

Wat do i type?

Go Start -> Run. Type "cmd". Type "ping server-name". Take note of the results it gives.

Or try: "tracert server-name". Look and see if a hop is giving a high ping. Some will time out, das normal.

If you dont know the server name, try pinging random stuff like amazon, skynews etc

I had the same problem with COD4, then realized that if I quit the Steam application the ping goes back to normal. Do you have applications like that running in the background?

No. and both ur options fail koko