Major packet loss and lag last few days

[Alpha]

Over the last few days I have been red spiking hard and getting major lag on all TS servers, getting the phone jack symbol as well all the time. I have done a trace using winmtr


http://pastebin.com/xgQmaq9j

[cse]

tastyspleen.net -    0 |  102 |  102

This shows 0 lost packets to the server. So no packet loss on your route there.
Maybe its on the route back. Check what times of the day its occurring so TS admins can check the reverse route at those times.

[yahoo]

try pinging (ping -t tastyspleen.net)  non stop for about a minute. see the result and compare the average vs. highest vs. lowest. red spikes doesn't necessarily means packet loss. Can be a latency issue

[quadz]

tastyspleen.net -    0 |  102 |  102

This shows 0 lost packets to the server.

Correct, no round-trip dropped packets between you and tastyspleen in that trace.

I'd suggest leaving the mtr running while you are in-game and experiencing packetloss on the netgraph.

red spikes doesn't necessarily means packet loss. Can be a latency issue

No.

void CL_AddNetgraph (void)
{
  int   i;
  int   in;
  int   ping;

  for (i=0 ; i<cls.netchan.dropped ; i++)
    SCR_DebugGraph (30, 0x40);

  for (i=0 ; i<cl.surpressCount ; i++)
    SCR_DebugGraph (30, 0xdf);

  // see what the latency was on this packet
  in = cls.netchan.incoming_acknowledged & (CMD_BACKUP-1);
  ping = cls.realtime - cl.cmd_time[in];
  ping /= 30;
  if (ping > 30)
    ping = 30;
  SCR_DebugGraph ((float)ping, 0xd0);
}

Dropped packets are red. Latency is green. (Rate-suppression is yellow.)

[Alpha]

I've been getting it at all times. I just played 3 maps on DM was getting the phone jack symbol on occasions but nothing showing on netgraph. This is the result of winmtr while playing
http://pastebin.com/Tr9rkfk4

I also tried the test yahoo suggested


http://pastebin.com/JLBZRiC6

Don't know if it means anything but yahoos test shows my ping jumping all over the place from 220 to 249 ect, however my ping in game has actually been quiet good since this started at 209 when its normally 220 or there abouts

[yahoo]

red spikes doesn't necessarily means packet loss. Can be a latency issue

No.

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Dropped packets are red. Latency is green. (Rate-suppression is yellow.)
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I always thought that red spikes are sometimes caused by latency. So if its not what are the possible causes ?

@Alpha
Your connection seems good. No packet loss. ping responses varies most specially if its high like in your case. Jumping from 220 to 249 is not much unless if it jumps from 220 to 300 up.

[Muerte]

Over the last few days I have been red spiking hard and getting major lag on all TS servers,

What client you are using? r1q2 or q2pro?

btw best program for ping and connection testing is ping plotter (free for one month) https://www.pingplotter.com/

[Alpha]

im using r1q2

[Muerte]

Did you try server command packetdup 1 or 2

ouch not all tastyspleen servers support packetdup command

quadz ?