Randomly seeing a brown phone jack icon on screen

[lekky]

Hi, Sometimes when i'm playing I get a brown plug-like icon in the top corner of my screen. When this happens i can't move or type, any idea's?

I'll post a screenie when it happens again.

[bitmate]

It's the "disconnect" - symbol. This means that you are currently lagging very badly (ping > 500).
If you have downloads running, while you are playing pb, this uses most of the bandwidth, which causes lagges in paintball. Stop downloads/uploads, or everything else which uses your bandwidth, and then the "disconnect" - symbol won't appear.

[XtremeBain]

It's been known for years as the phone jack, but usually carries the abbreviation pjack or pj.

[lekky]

its only started happening after you and matze helped me bitmate!

when i had lag before it never appeared. my ping was ok when this was happening, however, my local exchange has been having problems, so i guess the spikes i get could be the explanation.

[Matze]

Well, we only changed some graphic related things...

I can't think any of them could make you lag =/

[bitmate]

Good ol' pjack .

[lekky]

nope they didn't make me lag.

i meant that when i lagged before i never got "pjack", now i do though. its ok, no biggie.

thanks for the help tho, i'm playing much better i think, however i'm only playing in 640x480 resolution...

[bitmate]

Hows about a new vid card for your next birthday?

[lekky]

nah, i think i'ma getting a car

[jitspoe]

Pft, a car won't help you play games better!

As for the pjack, you can get a better idea of what's going on by typing "netgraph 1" at the console (type netgraph 0 to shut it off again).  This shows a graph of the packet times.  Black bars mean the packet got dropped.