Suddenly in the middle of casual match ping spiked to 170+ then remained ever after for over a week

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Hi people of discussion, is the problem in my title something anyone else has experienced or just me?
Like the title says I was just playing a normal casual match with normal ping then suddenly and ever since my connection to the official servers is permanently greater then 170 ping, it's making the game unplayable.
I've checked network usage it's not that it's only using 1 Mbps in task manager and CS2 is the only usage, I've set it to unlimited in settings in game so idk what's going on there. Verified file integrity, used a vpn, changed max acceptable ping etc. nothing works. Is there any reason this could happen? Has some cheater or something got my account ID and caused it to just not connect to the servers properly or is that too conspiratorial?
I don't know it's really strange to me as to how or why this could suddenly happen, like it seemed artificial not like I sign in one day and oh my connection is bad, it's been almost a week of this so I thought I would ask if it's just and if anyone has any ideas I could try.

[SomethingShooterDev69]

Checking the speed via task manager ain't going to tell you about latency.

WiFi or Ethernet? Did you actually check the ping on a speed test? A trace route would tell you at which point it's happening.

There are guides all over the Internet on stuff like this.

[dud3]

A week or so. Could be the sunstorm. These things do last awhile.

[dud3]

... or it killed Equipment.

[dud3]

I had to change 1 pc-fan last 2 days, and the other is noisy too now.

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Originally posted by SomethingShooterDev69:

Checking the speed via task manager ain't going to tell you about latency.

WiFi or Ethernet? Did you actually check the ping on a speed test? A trace route would tell you at which point it's happening.

There are guides all over the Internet on stuff like this.

Of course I did a speed test all normal there too, nothing else other then cs2 is having connection problems

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Originally posted by d3wd:

A week or so. Could be the sunstorm. These things do last awhile.

I don't know about any of that. doubt anything is busted as it's only cs2 with any problems

[SomethingShooterDev69]

Paste your trace route then

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Originally posted by SomethingShooterDev69:

Paste your trace route then

how do I do that without revealing too much info, sorry I'm here because I'm not an IT expert

[dud3]

Originally posted by Barry-Onyx Box:

Originally posted by d3wd:

A week or so. Could be the sunstorm. These things do last awhile.

I don't know about any of that. doubt anything is busted as it's only cs2 with any problems

Watch this than:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKwiv5mvm5Q
Should have english subtitles. This was a very strong solarstorm.

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Originally posted by Barry-Onyx Box:

Originally posted by SomethingShooterDev69:

Paste your trace route then

how do I do that without revealing too much info, sorry I'm here because I'm not an IT expert

did a trace route to google it's at 200 ish ping pretty sure that even though I'm in australia it shouldn't be that.

[dud3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srFJPvPebCM

[SomethingShooterDev69]

Just remove or replace your IP address in the results of the test... But I'm guessing you did not actually ts to that point. Still did not mention if Ethernet or not and what was the latency during the speed test... Not the speeds as that doesn't matter, the speed test will have a connection, up and down latency in ms

[CaptainSonic]

Originally posted by Barry-Onyx Box:

Originally posted by SomethingShooterDev69:

Paste your trace route then

how do I do that without revealing too much info, sorry I'm here because I'm not an IT expert

A traceroute will generally reveal some information. What you can do is run "tracert 1.1.1.1" in a command prompt window and look at where the bottleneck is. You should see a line where the latency (in milliseconds) goes up, and the rest of the way down the list, the latency stays as bad. If the item where this occurs is very far down or it doesn't appear to be in your equipment (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x) then there isn't much you can do. On the other hand, if the problem is very far up and looks like a local IP address (like the format above) then you'll need to buy new equipment to fix this issue.

[SomethingShooterDev69]

So it's not cs... Now each node/point on the trace route is a connection/relay.. find the one with the high delay and a good chance it's inside your network.

If you get a 170 is cs and a 200 to Google... It's not cs specific.

As for "you'll need to buy new equipment to fix this issue"... No... Something caused it and if I have to guess you might be using WiFi and it's changed channels or a neighbors WiFi is on the same or a close channel which can do this. Hence the question of Ethernet or WiFi..

[Barry-Onyx Box]

Originally posted by SomethingShooterDev69:

Just remove or replace your IP address in the results of the test... But I'm guessing you did not actually ts to that point. Still did not mention if Ethernet or not and what was the latency during the speed test... Not the speeds as that doesn't matter, the speed test will have a connection, up and down latency in ms

Here is the google trace with all ips replaced, I Don't understand the significance but I'm willing to try anything
Tracing route to google.com [ip]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my ip
2 174 ms 181 ms 190 ms ip
3 197 ms 196 ms 198 ms ip.static.isp.com.au [ip]
4 213 ms 211 ms 212 ms ip
5 198 ms 204 ms 202 ms ip
6 202 ms 203 ms 206 ms ip
7 211 ms 210 ms 201 ms mel04s02-in-f14.1e100.net [ip]

Trace complete.