A question...

In a nut shell i would like to know wether increasing dowload speed while keeping the upload the same improve my ping in online games ( i wanna be able to play CS and SOF2 at under 300mS ping )? (i.e i wanna go from 256/64 to 384/64 but its gonna be an extra 30$ a month)

its not yer download speed thats hurting you

its yer ping, and distance from server

CS would use less than 10k/sec in total bandwidth anyways

do a tracert on the server yer playing on to see how many hops away it is

my computer wont let me do a tracert, but a while back i used some software  and it told me that i was anywhere from 8 - 16 hops from certain servers.
anyways it seems that i\'m gonna have to live with my shitty ping .

wont let u do a tracert?

click start, programs, accessories, command prompt OR
click start, run, and type in CMD

then

c:\\tracert 192.168.1.1 (or whatever IP the server uses)

this is my tracert to yahoo.com


Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\\>tracert http://www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to http://www.yahoo.akadns.net [64.58.76.177]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  10.100.100.1
  2    10 ms    20 ms    20 ms  ipl-201-01.pppoe.stargate.net [208.40.201.1]
  3    20 ms    40 ms    20 ms  f0-0-2.eth.cr-1.crane.pa.stargate.net [209.166.1
64.174]
  4   230 ms    30 ms   641 ms  v1.eth.ha.crane.pa.stargate.net [206.210.75.1]
  5    20 ms    30 ms    31 ms  sl-gw2-pen-5-0-TS1.sprintlink.net [144.228.179.9
]
  6    20 ms    30 ms    30 ms  sl-bb20-pen-5-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.9]
  7    20 ms    30 ms    30 ms  sl-bb24-pen-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.166]
  8    20 ms    40 ms    30 ms  sl-bb27-pen-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.16.82]

  9    20 ms    40 ms    30 ms  sl-bb21-nyc-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.96]
 10    20 ms    30 ms    30 ms  sl-bb24-nyc-11-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.185]

 11    20 ms    30 ms    40 ms  144.232.9.118
 12    30 ms    40 ms    30 ms  dcr1-loopback.Washington.cw.net [206.24.226.99]

 13    30 ms    30 ms    40 ms  bhr1-pos-10-0.Sterling1dc2.cw.net [206.24.238.16
6]
 14    30 ms    40 ms    30 ms  csr04-ve242.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.98.218]
 15    30 ms    30 ms    31 ms  216.35.210.126
 16    31 ms    30 ms    30 ms  www8.dcx.yahoo.com [64.58.76.177]

Trace complete.

C:\\>


31ms ping, not bad

i think i\'ve found what i was doin wrong rather the typing the command in this way "c:\\tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" iwas typing it when it was "c:\\documents and settings\\blah blah blah\\tracert..."

now if i can only remember how to to change the second command line to the first one.

the command to change directory is

cd

to get back to root directory type in

c:\\cd \\

Well, you should be able to type tracert or \'any\' other DOS command from any path.

this is what i get

"C:\\>tracert http://www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to http://www.yahoo.akadns.net [66.218.71.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1  Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.

C:\\>"
*sigh

what kinda of router/firewall are u using?

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I get a crappy 170ms to yahoo.com   i hate dialup.. gotta get cable again.

mm, we got a dlink switch.

 
I get a crappy 170ms to yahoo.com i hate dialup.. gotta get cable again.

i wish i get 170mS ping, and u know what the funny bit is the only time i got a ping of 170 was when i was playing against a friend of mine, did i mention that he only lives like 6km\'s away .

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I used to get 20ms to 30ms. Thats why 170ms is crappy to me.