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Cable Internet not at it's 100% potential


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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!

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seems good for a untweaked connection

follow all these steps http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0

install cablenut and dl this file, unzip it and click on one of the files, now click save to registry and reboot

test speed, also click on the other file, click save to registry and reboot

test speed again, compare

use this http://www.testmy.net/d_load.php?ni=1&tt=1&s=5983&st=st&ta=&top=&nobar=1 when testing

VanBuren :)

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