Hey all, I live in an apartment complex that servers students. The complex provides internet and is managed by the IT guys here in the building. I have been getting unplayable pings with CoD4 but not in CS or CS:S and I can't figure out what the issue is. Here is a tracert to my CoD4 server. Any help would be most appreciated.

Tracing route to 180.208-100-14.static.steadfast.net [208.100.14.180]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.3.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.1.0.2
3 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 65.14.170.21
4 24 ms 24 ms 27 ms 205.152.243.128
5 30 ms 23 ms 28 ms ixc01cha-pos-7-0-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.239.103]

6 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms 65.83.237.140
7 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms axr01aep-ge-5-1-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.238.37]
8 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms axr00mia-0-3-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.28]
9 56 ms 22 ms 22 ms 65.83.238.46
10 32 ms 31 ms 36 ms so-6-0-0.edge5.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.218.1]
11 47 ms 36 ms 32 ms vlan89.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.19.190]
12 36 ms 36 ms 38 ms ae-72-72.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.136.141]

13 49 ms 51 ms 55 ms ae-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.105]
14 54 ms 57 ms 53 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.38]
15 82 ms 73 ms 87 ms ae-3.ebr3.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.62]
16 80 ms 75 ms 72 ms ae-78.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.134.61]
17 84 ms 86 ms 78 ms ae-24-56.car4.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.168]

18 76 ms 73 ms 73 ms WBS-CONNECT.car4.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.79.208.1
54]
19 74 ms 77 ms 76 ms 180.208-100-14.static.steadfast.net [208.100.14.
180]

Trace complete.

Problem is outside your local network so I doubt there is much you can do. If you change servers do the pings change at all?

Okay, well I've found that I can connect to European servers (I'm American) and maintain a regular 150 ping, however all American servers are 400+ ping.. this isn't adding up.

Sounds like you have some kind of proxy in the EU or something. I don't see any other reason that a place in the US would have a higher ping than somewhere overseas.

That or the ISP's connections in the US are just garbage or just out of bandwidth.

I'm going to go along with this:

If you have the option to, try switching ISP's.

Well I doubt I can do that, so :\ I was wondering if there could possibly be a Call of Duty config that I could alter but I'm pretty much out of ideas and pretty much fed up with trying. Seems I have wasted $50.

If I am reading this right. You bought a COD4 server from a game server host? If so have them look into this. Give them your ISP info and have them try a ping to it. They may fix it.

If it's just a game server you randomly picked out and play regularly then contact an admin of that game server. They may contact them for you. When I had a CS:S and a BF@ server people would email on these types of issues and I just forward them onto the game server host company. Some they fixed some they couldnt due restriction from that ISP.