Battlefield2 online

[desy2478]

Hi. I'll try again. Apparently I wasn't logged in.

Xp. amd athlon64. 3800+. 2.4 ghz. 1gb. geforce 7600 gt.

I play battlefield 2 online. since my free aol 'upgrade' a few months ago my ping shoots up periodically from around the usual of about 50 up to anything around 1000! It does this for a few seconds during which time the games unplayable and i usually get wasted. It's driving me crazy. Sometimes it's not too bad but at other times i get kicked or it's just to bad to play. I've tried everything at this end to fix it. eg disabled firewalls ad aware and spybot checks the list goes on. I told aol today that i'll have to change my isp if they don't fix it. They have run many tests and say it's all ok but it obviously aint. They say they can't get BT (british telecom) to fix a problem if they can't identify where it is. Are they taking the piss or can they genuinely do nothing? Do you think changing my isp will help or would i just have the same problem. AOL think maybe i have a wiring problem !? but it seems unlikely seeing as this problem started after this free 'upgrade'. Is there anything else I can do. Is there a way I can test for faults? I don't expect you to have the magic solution but any suggestions would be much appreciated. I'm incredibly frustrated with aol but i'm reluctant to change isp because of the hassle. Even if it isn't aol's fault they've been totally incompetent in dealing with this. Thanks for your time. Matt.

[Cyber Punk]

@desy2478 : Please start a new thread regarding your problem and it will be resolved by the members.

At Byte Me, this forum has a lot of experts already and we are glad that you joined it.
I'm currently learning a lot here from the experts, and we are all glad that you will be able to provide, professional troubleshooting.

[Byte_me]

Forgive me, i didn't mean to sound like a know it all. i posted this solely because i don't know which threads are ongoing.

as for the AOL problem, i suggest calling AOL about it. in the meantime, the next time it comes up, open task manager and find the aol notice under processes. open the command prompt and type in "taskkill (the name of the AOL notice process)" this should disable that process until the next time you log out, or maybe even until you restart. think of it as an annoying spam, or an IM Ghost bot, you have to disable the process before you can fix it. or sometimes just to catch a break. If that doesn't work, let me know. and tell me the version you are running on what OS with any customizations or specs you have modded to your system

[smurfy]

Matt (desy2478), welcome to CTH.
As Byte_me alludes, it appears you are being subjected to a background process from AOL (not BT) that is stealing CPU cycles and bandwidth.
Trouble with disabling it, it could cause your connection to drop completely especially if it's some sort of "keep alive" ping from AOL designed to identify bandwidth hogs or connection sitters.

My advice:
Start shopping for a new ISP.