"Bandwidth" figure very low in MP compared to other players

[evilc1 10]

in MP, when other players have a bandwidth figure in the thousands, I am in tens or maybe 100.

When connecting to servers I get the gold and/or red chain.

I have a good connection (~400K up/6000K down) - adsl max, but I have no idea why this figure is so low compared to other people on the server.

Any ideas?

[tonygrunt 10]

Had once the same problem in ArmA with my Netgear router. Try to disable the firewall of your router and see if it helps.

[evilc1 10]

Just tried disabling all kind of stuff like that, and turning off windows firewall may have done it. I have an exception for Arma2, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Disabling windows firewall seems to have a dramatic effect on my Desynch.

[evilc1 10]

on WiFi by any chance? other stuff running in the background? it's your available bandwidth, not your internet connection.

I never use WiFi, my whole house is wired.

Nothing else downloading.

The bandwidth figure is nothing like my available bandwidth, I can have 6meg available but the bandwidth figure never goes past 100.

[kremator 1065]

I find this myself after playing for a while. It does happen MORE (but not exclusively) when I use addons. Sometimes I can have a bandwidth figure in the teens (and I'm on 20meg broadband!)

Not using wifi, nothing else downloading, firewall ports open.

Anyone have any ideas?

[TheBigOne_014 16]

in MP, when other players have a bandwidth figure in the thousands, I am in tens or maybe 100.

When connecting to servers I get the gold and/or red chain.

I have a good connection (~400K up/6000K down) - adsl max, but I have no idea why this figure is so low compared to other people on the server.

Any ideas?

Test you speed & ping at http://www.speedtest.net/ , and post the result here.

[Mike84 1]

I know a guy who had the same, turned out his ISP was throttling his ports used for gaming.