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tried to race last nigh and my ping was 0, than rebooted and ping was over 100- 130 any help on this please?

bad internet conection

its your internet connection
for starters sometimes restarting your game can work
if not , try restarting yur comp
if not , restart the whole system , from router

if that doesnt work
press ctrl+alt+delete - and open the task manager
close all applications your will not need
on the processes tab - close all processes you will not need - like on my comp i turn off yahoo update and all kinds of stupid auto update things that think while im not using them
on the services tab , click the button that needs opened as admin
and yu can scoll thru all services that are running in the background , and turn off what you dont need - like on mine i turn off even more auto updaters

and sometimes , you can even go as far as lowering your graphics in dtr2 , turn off the alpha and enviroment mapping - it helps with how much the game needs to think - but some tracks need the enviroment mapping and wont let the game open

also i regularly defrag my comp , once a week
and i run disk clean up to get rid of all sorts of unwanted files cluttering up the space the comp thinks with

hope some of that makes sense and helps

Thank you for the reply and i will work on that ....thank you Ken

This isn't what causes high pings but it might help you understand it better..

PING, what does it mean? Simply put, ping (Latency) is a measurement of time, it is the time it takes to send data from your computer to the server and then back to your computer, this is done with node hops, someone might have 3 hops and another might have 15 hops and that's what causes ping to be high, the more hops the higher the ping. all this is done in a measurement called milliseconds, the higher your ping the longer the time. if your ping is 30 your internet speed will be 3 times faster than someone with 90, that's where the server synchronization comes in and averages all 10 players to have the the same speed to the best of the servers ability. Some servers are better than others, that's why you see some servers with all low pings but the cars are still lagging or warping, and others have higher pings but there is little warping this server has better a sync than the one with the lower pings.