patrick23

Nevermind, i got into the modem control panel and it does say interleaved. Why would they do that? Can they switch it back to what it was?

thanks for the reply and help dlewis23, were would u like me to conduct the ping test, what website is good for doing that so i can post results in here? And how do i access my modem options?

I live in South Florida, and i have the 3.0/384 service from bellsouth. Just recently my latency has gone up around 30ping higher then usual and my download speeds are not consistant. My friend who lives just down the road has the same service but everything is ok. Its definitely not the computer because it happens on all the computers in the house. example, when i ping a server in georgia i normaly get 30ping, recently im getin 50-60 constant. Same problem to other locations (but higher ping obviously). Download speeds vary from 100-300 depending on the day i guess... here are my speedtest. ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 2873 Kbps about 2.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 351 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/12/17 - 8:15am Bottom Line:: 50X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.92 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 8.532 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 92.53 % of your hosts average (bellsouth.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ZWJEYGUFT User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) ::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..:::::::::: Upload Connection is:: 321 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 39 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/12/17 - 8:16am Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 26.26 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took 14.766 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 27.38 % faster than the average for host (bellsouth.net) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ALX95Y6RS User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) the tests are fine but still im getin bad ping and i just downloaded something at 200kb/s. What is causing this to happen?

Man, i live in WestBoca and i cant wait until FIOS will be available here. I just hope that they have good routing etc... because i had adelphia and the latency SUCKED even though i was getin much faster upload speeds then im getin now. Right now i have Bellsouth Xtreme and its great, but fios will be soooo much faster...

I dont care what anyone says... Bellsouth is great. I had all 3 of there dsl's and i currently have Xtreme and couldnt be happier. I had adelphia and 1st of all their customer/tech support is awful, they dont know what they are talkin bout cuz i had them come to my house 3 times for the internet and they never found a problem even though the internet was eather slow or offline. 2nd, the ping i had with them SUCKED (i play cs and my neighbor who has BS ultra, always had lower ping then me). The only good thing w/ cable is the DL speed i always had 500+kb/s. Now for BS everything is awsome, the pings are always low >50, and i constantly DL at 370kb/s. PLUS dsl is more reliable....