Insane PING SPIKES! HELP please!!

[eipeks]

CSS server running on

Xeon 3.01 GHz, 2 Gigs RAM, 100MB Commercial Bandwidth and Windows 2003 server edition.

Server runs, and all seems well UNTIL... more than one person connects.

1 person + any number of bots = pings are fine

1 person + 1 Person joins late (no bots or with bots) = Pings Skyrocket!

We're talking 700+ pings. But the second one person leaves, the pings are fine. What on earth would be causing this?

[eipeks]

*sob

anyone? lol

[eipeks]

tried putting server on DMZ, same problems. Cannot figure out why it would be doing this. I had a friend on there for 30 minutes with no problems. He had 7 bots at the time, as soon as I came in, within 2 minutes both pings spiked through the roof.

If he leaves, server goes back to normal.
If I leave, server goes back to normal.


its driving us insane.