Lag spike problem

[MapMan]

Hello, im playing nexuiz on Windows XP SP2 from time to time with my friends. After few weeks break i decided to play nexuiz again but strange lag spike problem makes my life harder :/ When i join any server i feel like my ping jumps from 30 to 30000 and then back to normal. 2-3 seconds normal, then 0,4second pause(yes, pause, not lag at all) and everything come back to normal. Ofcourse im not downloading or seeding anything while playing. This problem doesnt occur on LAN so this is probably something with network settings. Thanks for any advice. Cheers.

[esteel]

Generally Nexuiz has no influence on your connection, so if you really have THAT severe problems (ping of 3000 would be 3 seconds lag which also should make you see a clock as indication of a shorttime lost connection) i'm not sure if we can help. It could be a long range of possible things..
For example if you use WLAN thats a bad idea as its often plagued with problems. It could be a crappy (dsl) router, just your ISP which shares your netresources with other people, or maybe you just joined a server that in an other country and you have a bad and unstable connection to it.
It might be worth a try to hit the refresh button quite a few times to see if the ping you see is stable or changes a lot. That might be easier with an external server browser but i muss confess i have no clue which ones work on windows. ST2 ( http://st2.sourceforge.net/ ) is a java browser that supports Nexuiz.
It could also be an indication that your computer is infected with a virus or spyware or just that your windows is 'getting old'. Maybe its a bad firewall programm.
Its just hard to say what the cause might be. But its worth to watch the ping (can be seen in the scoreboard) also to run a good anti virusprogram, to run Nexuiz in window mode and keep the task manager open to see if some programs eats away CPU time..