Cable Internet Connection

**hud43** · 08-04-2003, 07:13 PM

Recently I have been experiencing lag during my online gaming sessions, which was never a problem. My lists show good pings, even on refreshes. But when I launch I experience intermitent lag. Asside from the obivious problems associated with a cable connection is there any other possible causes to this problem?

Thanks

**XP1800** · 08-04-2003, 08:19 PM

Is your NIC onboard or did you have a PCI card?

Also, what do you do in the Burgh? I currently go to Duquesne

It's always nice to meet a neighbor in the forums

**WildWeasel** · 08-04-2003, 10:16 PM

i have no clue about that lag...

but i'm also in pittsburgh, going to CMU. howdy

**XP1800** · 08-04-2003, 10:21 PM

Originally posted by WildWeasel
i have no clue about that lag...

but i'm also in pittsburgh, going to CMU. howdy

I hope a Cleveland fan steps into this thread!!!

We just need someone from Pitt to step in here, I know TheWhiteRabbit does for a fact!

**hud43** · 08-05-2003, 06:19 AM

I have onboard and a PCI card. My cable connection plugs into the onboard, and my PCI card is hooked to a ethernet HUB along with another pc, which I never have running when I am gaming.

**drs1771** · 08-05-2003, 07:42 AM

Are you running a firewall? If your ping times are good, it sounds like you're clogged up with spyware and or a trojan worm. If you're running directly from your on board lan to your modem, I am almost sure this is the case. Install a firewall such as Norton Internet Securities or McAffee Firewall, or even a freeware firewall like Zone Alarm, and see how many applications are accessing the web in the background hogging your bandwidth.

**LordOPain** · 08-05-2003, 08:17 AM

did you do a trace to see if its them or somewhere after them?

recently i was having problems so i did a trace then called my cable provider..

i was getting to them in 10ms, from there it mustve been sent to another router of theirs which was where things starting sliding..
the next 2 jumps were over 200ms each and it only got worse..

i climbed up in the poor kids *** on the other end, especially when he was saying "we arent having problems an theyre getting great response times"

before i hung up, i made it clear that im paying for better than tele modem response and if it wasnt fixed by end of month(3 days) id drop them and i could easily influence my friends with equally poor service to drop them as well.. then theyd convince their friends and so on..

magically, it was fixed the next day and its been great ever since, amazing results from a problem they claimed not to have..

**hud43** · 08-06-2003, 11:42 AM

Thank you all for the tips. The tip regarding the spyware seemed to be the problem. I am back up and killing. Thanks

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