Yeah it all seems very weird after reading what you all have posted. As far as i can tell it should all work fine. I personally have trouble with pings in UK servers, except when the server connection is too small for the amount of people.
I just dunno what else to suggest to any of you. Sorry
thanks to everyone who replyed but it seems to have sorted it,s self oOo: i was playing away and my ping rose to 400 so i got very pissed off rebooted and since then my ping has dropped to the normal 25-40 range.
this is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me with a computer i still dont understand wot went on, ohh well suppose i should just be happy everything is back to normal.
yea did all that and there is no point going above 10000 as most servers have it capped at 10000, plus 24000 is as high as i could go before over saturating my upstream