Thythe

Well, before these problems started, I was located in Chicago and played games on many servers, almost always in the top 10% for good pings. After I moved to Phoenix, either the ping is extremely terrible, or there is a lot of lag anyway. I'm not sure if any of you play Counterstrike or any other FPS games, but here's what happens when I play. When I move around there will be a lot of unfluid motions. If I look around rapidly it makes it even worse. Also, when I use a particular action button, it will usually lag up and just hold on that action (for example firing a weapon 1 bullet will just freeze and hold down the fire button, same for lots of other situations, though). I'm running a pretty powerful machine, so it doesn't seem like it would be my comps problem, and my video drivers are up to date. I'm connected directly to my cable modem via ethernet and am not running any programs in the background (Norton antivirus is running, but it was running in Chicago too with no problems). Well that's about it, I'm open for any ideas you have.

I did a scan at one of the sponsored links from the site you said. There are some drivers out of date, but the video ones are up to date, which makes me think thats not the problem. Are there any other ones that are extremely important to keep updated?

I've sure tried a lot to fix this problem. It pretty much exists on all servers. Even if I find a server that is nearby it may say my ping is very low, but still be incredibly laggy (really unplayable). It can't be my computer because it ran perfectly before, so I'm not sure. I've definitely tried local servers, though.

I just moved to Phoenix from Chicago and all of a sudden Counterstrike and other applications are ultra slow with lots of lag. My computer has 1 GB Ram and a RadeonX300 Video Card which ran perfectly in Chicago. I ran your test and got this (and a 5 star rating): Your connection is: 3847 Kbps (about 3.8 Mbps) You downloaded at: 470 kB/s Your TRuSPEED: ^info^ 4116 Kbps :: 503 kB/s (7% overhead factored) Bottom Line: You are running: 69 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 2.18 second(s) Diagnosis: Looks Great : 17.65 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Why is my connection to Counterstrike so sloooooowwwww? Great site by the way, thanks in advance for the help.