anybody have a solution to solving my ?ping problem? I'll enter game and usually i'll have like 60-100 ms, 5 s later I have 500+ ms ?ping. If i look at my Zone Selection screen and look at the ping, it is constantly changing, like it'll go 70, , 70, 90, 500, ect. It's crazy then it'll jump back down for maybe 2 mins and go back up and stay there for a while and then jump back down. Also folders open up pretty slow, same with internet browser. I have a wireless dsl router, but don't think thats why because I've had this for the past like almost 3 years, and never had problems with it except maybe random D/C's. I've had the same computer/connection for all of my SS career so this is weird. This has been going on since early June, one day my comp was perfect at my regular constant 50 ms then the next day my comp was !@#$%^&*. I thought it was just another "phase" that my connection or computer was going through but I guess not . I haven't changed anything to my computer/connection since I started playing SS except my parents upgraded our DSL a couple notches to make our computer go faster. Suggestions? Also why does ?ping affect my playing and make everybody else look laggy and ?lag just makes me look laggy to the others and makes me tank. here some traces NEW TRACE: Tracing Zone: SSCU Death Star Battle IP Address: 69.56.227.178 Hop IP Address Host Name Loss(%) Min/Avg/Max Ping --- --------------- -------------------------------- ------- ---------------- 1 207.32.11.254 0.0 20 30 160 2 167.142.160.141 bltw-serial1-2-3.bltw.netins.net 0.0 20 20 40 3 167.142.53.117 ins-border10-ds1-53-117.desm.net 0.0 30 40 160 4 167.142.57.209 ins-core3-atm0-0.desm.netins.net 0.0 30 70 250 5 65.207.234.121 POS2-2.GW1.KCY4.ALTER.NET 0.0 30 60 290 6 65.207.234.121 POS2-2.GW1.KCY4.ALTER.NET 0.0 30 50 120 7 152.63.92.202 156.at-1-0-0.CL2.KCY4.ALTER.NET 0.0 30 390 8 152.63.103.89 POS7-0.GW1.DFW13.ALTER.NET 0.0 60 90 210 9 157.130.143.226 theplanet-gw.customer.alter.net 0.0 50 180 10 157.130.143.226 theplanet-gw.customer.alter.net 0.0 60 110 460 11 70.85.127.62 vl32.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com 96.0 60 60 60 12 12.96.160.51 car2-3-v2.dllstx2.theplanet.com 95.8 60 60 60 13 69.56.227.178 69-56-227-178.theplanet.com 0.0 60 130 660 Cycles: 24 OLD TRACE (when my ping was fine) Tracing Zone: SSCU Death Star Battle IP Address: 69.56.227.178 Hop IP Address Host Name Loss(%) Min/Avg/Max Ping --- --------------- -------------------------------- ------- ---------------- 1 216.51.167.254 0.0 10 20 70 2 167.142.160.165 bltw-serial1-3-2.bltw.netins.net 0.0 20 20 70 3 167.142.50.37 ins-border10-ds1-50-37.desm.neti 0.0 20 40 90 4 167.142.57.210 ins-core4-atm0-0.desm.netins.net 0.0 20 30 90 5 160.81.92.177 sl-gw31-chi-3-7.sprintlink.net 0.0 30 40 100 6 160.81.92.177 sl-gw31-chi-3-7.sprintlink.net 0.0 30 40 130 7 144.232.26.29 sl-bb21-chi-4-0.sprintlink.net 0.0 30 50 90 8 144.232.11.217 sl-bb20-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net 0.0 50 60 110 9 144.232.20.17 sl-st21-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net 0.0 50 70 190 10 144.232.20.17 sl-st21-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net 0.0 50 70 220 11 144.232.29.97 0.0 50 60 120 12 70.85.127.62 dist-vlan32.dsr3-2.dllstx3.thepl 95.6 50 50 50 13 70.85.127.76 dist-vlan22.dsr1-2.dllstx2.thepl 95.6 50 50 50 14 70.85.127.76 dist-vlan22.dsr1-2.dllstx2.thepl 95.6 50 50 50 15 12.96.160.19 car2-3-v1.dllstx2.theplanet.com 95.4 50 50 50 16 69.56.227.178 69-56-227-178.theplanet.com 0.0 50 60 110 Cycles: 22