juz23

Your connection is: 4507 Kbps

I recently re-installed a game called Nox (that I have been playing since 2001) after taking a 6 month break. During those 6 months, I got a better computer. Gateway Intel Pentium 4, 200gb hard drive, 1024 MB RAM, 3.2ghz processor, etc. I noticed that when I host a game, everybody lags alot, and when I join other servers, I am the only one lagging (and when I used to play on my old comp 6 months ago, I never lagged). The lag consists of constant spiking, short timeouts, etc. My old computer was a crappy hp intel pentium 3 with 800mghz and 392mb ram, 27gb hard drive. I asked a friend and he told me to do the speed tests on this site. So I did the Smartest for download and upload and here are the results: (I have Cable Internet and my ISP is Videotron, a Quebec company). Download: I used to score 256 kb/s but now I always score about 500 kb/s. I asked my friend to do this test (he has the exact same internet as me and only lives about 5 minutes away) and he scored over 1000 kb/s...I believe something's wrong here. Upload: I used to score about 22 kb/s but now I always score about 60 kb/s. I got that same friend to do the test and he scored about double. I scored higher than videotron.ca (my isp) but much lower than typical cable and dsl. What I don't understand is, I scored more than the average users of my ISP (videotron.ca). But my friends that have the same ISP as me (also cable internet) score double and sometimes triple my scores. I scanned my computer with Ad-aware, Spybot, CCleaner and Norton Anti-Virus 2k3 and found some spyware and adware and deleted all of it. The rest of it has to be deleted at system startup. I tried calling my ISP but they always put me on hold forever so I gave up. I tried power cycling my modem and router but it still doesn't change anything. I am running on Windows XP Home edition. Tracert and Ping Program results: The current date is: Thu 01/05/2006 The current time is: 14:19:25.56 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=67ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=51 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=51 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 79ms, Average = 68ms Ping Complete. Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 9 ms 5 ms 10.68.64.1 2 20 ms 6 ms 5 ms 24.200.245.173 3 7 ms 6 ms 5 ms 24.200.245.10 4 564 ms 5 ms 8 ms 10.154.0.21 5 10 ms 9 ms 7 ms Port-channel1.core1.MTT-Montreal.teleglobe.net [66.198.81.9] 6 25 ms 14 ms 17 ms if-1-3.mcore4.NQT-NewYork.teleglobe.net [66.198.81.14] 7 23 ms 15 ms 14 ms if-13-0.core3.NQT-NewYork.teleglobe.net [64.86.5.21] 8 31 ms 14 ms 14 ms sl-gw31-nyc-14-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.249.29] 9 14 ms 14 ms 18 ms sl-bb27-nyc-12-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.35] 10 57 ms 14 ms 20 ms sl-bb26-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.37] 11 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms sl-bb23-pen-12-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.95] 12 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms sl-bb20-pen-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.16.25] 13 61 ms 64 ms 911 ms sl-bb27-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.65] 14 68 ms 89 ms 754 ms sl-st20-dal-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.83] 15 94 ms 62 ms 75 ms sl-theplanet-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.244.142] 16 101 ms 61 ms 59 ms vl31.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29] 17 61 ms 60 ms 61 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83] 18 66 ms 63 ms 63 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.85] 19 943 ms 61 ms 62 ms 85.67-18-179.reverse.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. I also downloaded the latest Windows updates. I'm downloading Cablenut to see if it helps. Please post help. THanks!