Author Topic: Randomly seeing a brown phone jack icon on screen  (Read 4879 times)

lekky

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Randomly seeing a brown phone jack icon on screen
« on: February 11, 2006, 07:05:31 AM »
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.
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bitmate

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2006, 07:19:37 AM »
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

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2006, 07:58:29 AM »
It's been known for years as the phone jack, but usually carries the abbreviation pjack or pj.

lekky

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2006, 08:07:44 AM »
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.

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2006, 08:53:43 AM »
Well, we only changed some graphic related things...

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

bitmate

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2006, 09:05:42 AM »
Good ol' pjack ;D .

lekky

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2006, 09:11:02 AM »
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...













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bitmate

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2006, 10:35:27 AM »
Hows about a new vid card for your next birthday? :)

lekky

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2006, 10:45:06 AM »
nah, i think i'ma getting a car ;)

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Re: pluggy
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2006, 01:38:07 PM »
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.