yawn yawn - high pingz

[old.Eena]

Ok, used Quake, II, III, R3A, Quakeworld etc. Tried various dial up isp - freeserve (unmetered currently), jolt, claranet, zoom, ic24, etc. Using 400 mhz celeron /64mb /4gb /intel(yuk) 2 agp, and onboard 56 k modem. Connect speed is usually alleged 44 kbps. Dial up connection (no LAN) in Norfolk, Eng. So why is my ping so f'n HIGH! ie. 600 - 999+? Rocket 3 Arena is unplayable. Is it my locality? Am I missing something obvious? Please someone put me out of my misery.
Paul :-( cheers

 

[old.venturer01]

i will say it first
is it a win modem
LOL on board like on the mobo ?

if it's a real modem
is your packet size set to small
it's in control panel network something
but anyway you should get a lower ping without changing this.
get a shot of an external modem
or an isa modem.
anybody had any luck with the new
pci hardware modems.
could be loads of things.



[This message has been edited by venturer01 (edited 09 August 2000).]

 

[old.Gib]

Yup, any chance you could borrow someones external modem to test if its your internal one? Is the internal one on the mobo or a sep card, and if so which one...might help us a bit.

 

[old.ketaMine]

buy sommat like a supra 56e pro modem, i had one was great as far as modems go....