I see ur points grandpappy,but youre not hellping at all,if u luckily not part of the so called 5% by u(numbers out the ass?specially when u seem to be Na admin and probably u dont play too much on eu isnt it?......5%.....Lol....) then congrats,but i can assure u,as i been checking this for months and talking to players about this,that there is some ping issues for lots of people with different connections and different countries at the same times and hours of the day. Not mattering if they have 10mb broadband, 50mb broadband, adsl, cable,etc .
At first post there is a tracer test that shows some nodes having problems.If u connect by that node ur ping its increased. I dont have any steam or antivirus running on background,no updates,nothing at all and i still can have the problem at those times, and at that same time i can see people that have normal ping usually having like 100+ ping on the same servers so ur point its invalid,and really unsolidary. Maybe theres a minor percentage of people that has this kind of problems cause they are running programs on the background or cause any hardware or software they use its not well configurated,but were not talking bout this. There is a big difference in playing this game with 115-120 ish ping and playing it with 80-90.U may or may not noticed it,but if u dont experience this problem help or kindly get out of the way ,thank u.
What i mean its that u would be right on some of the supossitions u do if u know exactly what we are talking about, but this thread its not about: i have laggz helpz me out coz i dont know nothing bout internetz. Its about players that had been playing this for long with normal pings and from long time ago they notice big pings spikes or just big ping increases at certain points of the day lasting for hours with the exact configuration and connection they used to use when they had normal ping,sistematically and with no background bandwith use.