ISDN help *Please*

[SxRxRnR]

If anyone is familiar with ISDN modems and gaming, I need your help. I currently have an ISDN modem and 64k connection, but I have the capability to use both phone lines and achieve a 128k connection. I get this speed for web surfing and downloads, but I do not get it when playing online games. My ping or latency does not get any better. I am playing Counterstrike/Half-Life and usually play at a ping of 90-130, but I thought by using this I would get around 40-80, but that is not the case. Why would there be an increase in speed for web browsing and downloads, but not gaming? Is there something I can do to fix this? Please help.

Thanks

[Mr_Q]

The ping is related to the quality of your conexion,not by the band U have.So u will not receive any improuvements unless U move to a better conexion,like DSL or cable modem.

[pyramid]

Correct, Ping is not tied to Bandwidth, it is latency. Your ping can be affected by many things, most notably the # of hops between you and the host and the amount of traffic on the routers and data lines you are sharing to get to your destination. Even a T1 connection can have a high ping if it is routed poorly or it's boundary routers are busy with traffic.

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[SxRxRnR]

Thanks for the posts, that makes sense.

[Me2]

Originally posted by pyramid:
Correct, Ping is not tied to Bandwidth, it is latency. Your ping can be affected by many things, most notably the # of hops between you and the host and the amount of traffic on the routers and data lines you are sharing to get to your destination. Even a T1 connection can have a high ping if it is routed poorly or it's boundary routers are busy with traffic.



That's what I thought too, but, then why is it typical 56k modems usually give much higher ping than broadband access such as adsl or cable? it has much lower throughput so less data can be transfered at a time, but why does it get there slower too?

[squidbag]

You should almost never use ping for any type of bandwidth assessment. It's really only useful for determining if a host is up or not (and even then, you can be deceived by a firewall or such which is blocking ICMP - common these days).

Ping response can be poor even if bandwidth usage is zero but a host has very high CPU utilization.