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I need some advice. I recently moved and I went from cable to DSL. Now on cable I had a lowly .5mbs connect and went to DSL with a 1.0mbs connect. Here is the problem. My ping swings way bad now. It's almost unplayable. Also my pings to servers is higher now than before when I was on cable.

I'm on a siemens Gigaset se567 gateway/modem.

any clues?

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do it again no you using a different technology

I think I figured it out. I had to enable DMZ and now my pings do not swing as they did yesterday, but I will do as you suggest in the other thread. Thanks again Bubba, you are very helpful and IT IS appreciated.

I hope you have a firewall. Enabling DMZ basically is like not having a router.

Yes I do use a firewall.

Your pings may be higher than when you were on cable because you are now on DSL and they may use a totally different backbone than cable does. Not sure why you went to DSL but where I live, DSL sucks.

Also, you don't really need to enable DMZ, you could just open the ports needed to host any games. If you are only joining, then the milliseconds it take for your router to forward the packets to your PC is not an issue and you won't notice it. This lag you speak of most likely comes from your DSL connect.

One thing you might check if you moved to a different house is your telephone wiring in your house.

We were having fits with our connection a couple of years back and I fought with my computer and the phone company, and finally had a knowledgeable tech tell my my old phone line was the problem.

I ripped it all out and replaced it with Cat 6, and haven't had a problem since.

We have DSL, and its been really stable.

Yes a good home run from the DEMARK/ONI/NID to your DSL jack with CAT5 wiring and also a high grade DSL filter at the box makes a world of difference. Just so you know every jack and piece of equipment plugged into a jack in your house will add to the distance and loss/noise on your DSL line. Especially if you have an Alarm system your service goes through it before it reaches your jack.

need some info Home Phone Wiring

If it becomes a major problem, try and get your DSL on a dedicated data only line. Mine is on one which explains why it was able to sync at nearly 4 miles range.

Excellent! I probably should replace the wiring from the house box to all the jacks. I'll get on that today. I'm also gonna disable the DMZ as per suggestion.

Would a bad line produce this?

DNS Query - lol

if your DNS server didn't work you wouldn't be at this webpage posting or reading

probally old firmware

Makes sense.

I'll see about updating the firmware. May just help everything out.

That, or he didn't set the DNS servers in the router.

Looked for that info MD. Can't find it.

AlphaDoG wrote:Looked for that info MD. Can't find it.

It's probably assigned via DHCP.

OK new wires in place. I still have probs. Looks like a bad hop?

Yeah that is a bad hop at the ISP level. If it doesn't improve soon give them a call and complain, encourage anyone else you know on the same provider with the same problem to do the same.

It would be an exceptionally good idea to get the phone number for whoever is responsible for your local area. They will be far more responsive if you call and bug them directly rather than getting filtered through some overseas tech support first and it will take a lot less time and effort.

That looks much better. Note that there really isn't anything wrong with that 8th hop where it jumps up to 150 MS because that shot is across the Atlantic.

just so you know what it looks from some one elses connection to the same location once you hit that overseas hop.....yeah 110-150 ms bump




you might want to do this one too

nyc.speakeasy.net

Looks pretty good to me.