23k download speeds with comcast...and getting worse...

[jhaas]

hello, first post here, any help would be much appreciated

my computer has gotten noticeably slower in the last month or so.  i started to notice while playing COD on-line.  my pings were 200-700 range it would make it impossible to play, and most servers would kick me for high ping. (while a month or so ago i would get kicked for having too low of a ping from other servers)

i followed most of the steps in the sticky and it didn't seem to help.

i live in a densly populated college neighborhood.  now that i think of it my 'node' now propably has 1000 more people than it did before school started a month ago.  though i don't know where the boundaries of the node are.  i also share this connection with the house next door which i own and rent to 4 students.  they pay for the internet connection and i have a cat5 and cable line run to my house. (just part of the rental deal i made with them) i have done this same deal for over 5 years with the house next door, never any problems.

anyway,  i am on comcast and have a 6mb connection.  i have a linksys wrt54g wireless router (with current firmware) running one laptop wireless and 4 others off ethernet ports. can i configure the router to give certain computers more or less bandwidth? 

my computer is the #1 slot. sony vaio 2.2G, 512 ram, running windows xp with all current upgrades.  i ran my adaware, nothing unusual, i ran mcaffe nothing, i ran ccleaner and removed over 800mb of old stuff?! 

i ran a tweak last night, speedguide.net tcp optimizer    https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

my DUmeter shows a faster beginning at 90-250k when it goes to 1-10k for awhile, most of the time its around 20-30k

test results from 5 mins ago,

thank you in advance

jon

i couldn't paste the results, here they are

ping testmy.net      222 : 529 : 720    ttl 50

                              157 : 163 : 330    ttl 50

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 187 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

Download Speed is:: 23 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Sep 15 21:34:50 EDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB download in 44.52 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 4.38 % of your hosts average (comcast.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-UTW09QXEC

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 411 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

Download Speed is:: 50 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)

Test Time:: Thu Sep 15 21:57:49 EDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB download in 20.48 sec

Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 9.62 % of your hosts average (comcast.net)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-F9PR85DG4

[netmasta]

Have you run the test at http://www.broadbandreports.com/tweaks yet? If your sharing your connection with your neighbors, do you know if their running download intensive things, e.g.:p2p or internet video? The more people you share your connection with, the slower it's going to get.

[tbaker397]

Could the kids next door have a few PC's  all running a Bit Torrent client downloading some hardcore pr0n

[dn0]

Welcome to the forum

Is the modem in the rental house next door, or at your house?

What are your pings to your router (prob 192.168.1.1) and what are your ping times to your modem (usually 192.168.100.1).(I would ping these devices at the time the slow down is occuring)

This may tell you if the problem is local or on the Comcast network.

[jhaas]

Is the modem in the rental house next door, or at your house?

What are your pings to your router and to your modem

thank you for the timely responces...

the ping to router and modem are both <1ms (fast as possible)

the router and modem are next door, but it is down in the basement where my shop is.

[jhaas]

would this work if i don't run my lan off a server?

http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com/

seems like it will do what i want?

jon

[dn0]

would this work if i don't run my lan off a server?

http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com/

seems like it will do what i want?

jon

Sorry it took me so long to get back.

I do not believe you can control the bandwidth of the other PCs on your router with that software.

You would need a router that is specifically designed to do this, and I believe there are a couple out there now that we lay people can reach, otherwise it is higher end equipment.

As for running all connections through a server or proxy of some type, yes that is possible, but it may be cheaper and easier to look for a router/switch that can do the job.

Here is a D-Link gaming router that might do the job, maybe someone on the board can answer that for us.

It is around $149, but still cheaper than a seperate PC to do the job.

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=370

$125 at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833127158

[resopalrabotnick]

....i doubt these guys are up/down loading porn/music 24/7...

you would be surprised.

but go down to the basement and take a peek at the leds on the router modem when speeds are slow. this should give you a hint if speed problem is technical or due to high traffic.