mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hey guys I have a Mac and I have Comcast. And boy does it suck. I cant play games without it lagging. I havent tried any tweaking programs. Oh and on another note. I cant change ISP because this apartment complex is dumb and its the only place we can get internet from. Lame! I ran the test from testmy.net and this is what it came up with Your connection is: 1251 Kbps or 1.3 Mbps You downloaded at: 153 kB/s You are running: 22 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 6.69 second(s) Member Ident:Username:mjay252 CompID:699353039914 Test Time:: 2009/01/14 - 8:02pm Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 Test ID: BP32S5VO1 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake) Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 19.78 % of your hosts average (Comcast.net) This was tested from a 3072 kB file and took 20.121 seconds to complete Uhm... I dont know anything I need to post here. But I'm a gamer and love to play online, but this crappy internet makes me not want to. I was just wondering if there was a way to boost the performance, or will I be stuck with this slow internet until my darn lease is up? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Your probably sharing the bandwidth along with everyone else in the building. There's only so much to go around in that case. Not sure if there's much you can do about it. Welcome to testmy.net, maybe someone else in your same situation will have a couple pointers, check back in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 See that's what I thought, but I asked the people at Comcast about that, they give me some bull saying that that's not true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 See that's what I thought, but I asked the people at Comcast about that, they give me some bull saying that that's not true. I suppose it all depends on what the owner is signed to, as well as there network. Iv'e seen much worse in atp. settings, so maybe just be glad for what you can get you know ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yes but what I'm getting is not worth the $52 that I pay. All I really want to do is play my games without them lagging! So therefore I'm not going to be happy with what I'm getting. I'm a poor college student dishing out money for something that is rather slow. Maybe if my complex would take the hint and change ISPs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Have you done a Tracert to see where the LAG is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 I have not done that. I actually dont know what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 I don't have a MAC but .... Try this.. It's Something like the way Linux has it. The other option is to go to the Applications folder > Utilities > Network Utility > Traceroute. Type the domain or IP address in the field under "Please enter the network address to trace an internet route to" and click Trace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 What IP Address do I type in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 this forums IP 74.54.226.166 Or testmy.net And router firewall may interfere, so you may need to be in the DMZ to allow it to pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 This is my result. Traceroute has started ... traceroute to 74.54.226.166 (74.54.226.166), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.713 ms 4.368 ms 35.777 ms 2 73.126.154.1 (73.126.154.1) 118.658 ms 92.031 ms 263.797 ms 3 ge-2-3-ur01.eastorange.fl.lakecnty.comcast.net (68.85.211.113) 74.383 ms 358.590 ms 243.466 ms 4 te-5-1-ur02.nworange.fl.lakecnty.comcast.net (68.85.210.78) 114.549 ms 152.892 ms 74.569 ms 5 te-1-3-ur01.mtplymouth.fl.lakecnty.comcast.net (68.85.210.62) 523.082 ms 69.801 ms 98.477 ms 6 te-2-1-ur01.mtdora.fl.lakecnty.comcast.net (68.85.210.37) 51.450 ms 75.463 ms 99.519 ms 7 te-1-2-ar01.leesburg.fl.lakecnty.comcast.net (68.85.210.33) 181.873 ms * 113.398 ms 8 te-2-4-ar01.augusta.ga.augusta.comcast.net (68.85.229.242) 281.873 ms 146.795 ms 90.955 ms 9 68.86.90.189 (68.86.90.189) 169.108 ms 84.790 ms 143.146 ms 10 pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.225) 155.462 ms 156.726 ms 239.193 ms 11 pos-0-14-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.153) 75.347 ms 73.077 ms 73.228 ms 12 68.86.88.50 (68.86.88.50) 128.292 ms 335.177 ms 194.538 ms 13 te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.22) 130.402 ms 146.501 ms te7-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.18) 238.993 ms 14 te1-3.dsr02.dllstx2.theplanet.com (70.87.253.122) 545.239 ms 360.091 ms * 15 po1.car06.dllstx6.theplanet.com (12.96.160. 199.925 ms 164.228 ms 533.955 ms 16 a6.e2.364a.static.theplanet.com (74.54.226.166) 487.258 ms 104.385 ms 201.451 ms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 That is real ugly all over. Perhaps one of the main Gurus can decipher for you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 that would be really helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 But for line one.. Do you have a router? That line should show as less than 1 milli second. Like this.... Pinging 192.168.1.254(this is for my router) with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.254: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms EDIT:With a tracert result to my router.. C:Documents and SettingsOwner>tracert 192.168.1.254 Tracing route to 192.168.1.254 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254 Trace complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 I do have a router... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Have you tried another router or by-passed the router and connected directly to the cable modem? I gotta go............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yup done both and its still crappy as heck. Right now I'm at 300 kbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/07/07/hurry_up_the_customer_has_a_complaint/ How about try Twitter? Comcast's Twitter team. Comcrap monitors some places and maybe, just maybe, they might help to upgrade your node. And putting Comcrap in the subject or text gets their attention as well.... I don't know if this site is still active, since it changed owners.. http://comcastmustdie.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjay252 Posted January 15, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'm trying to figure out the Twitter thing right now...maybe it will work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted January 15, 2009 CID Share Posted January 15, 2009 With your Twitter post, you could add that the apartment building(?) that you live in, also has other users on Comcast that are having problems(I guess, according to your speeds dropping down to 300Kbps in the evening).. Write up the times of slowness and high pings to attract nice attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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