Horrible Lag in Games...slow download speeds!

[Gibr4n]

Im in fort hood texas, experiencing HORRIBLE:( lag when i try to play games on this connection. Its absolutely horrible compared to my connection back home in chicago.
I have roadrunner cable here. Any ideas why its so ******:irate: ?!

These are my test results:


« SpeedGuide.net Speed Test Results »
121 kbps down (~0.12 Mbps, 15 KB/s)↓
232 kbps up (~0.23 Mbps, 28 KB/s)↑
250 KB downloaded in 16.859 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 3.532 seconds
Tested on: 2007.01.23 21:12 EST
Tested from: 123facts.com
Test Link: http://www.speedguide.net/speedtest/results.php?test=Y5I1DW25ESQ
Latency: 356ms
Provider: inktomisearch.com
Location: Killeen, TX, US

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« SpeedGuide.net TCP Analyzer Results »
Tested on: 01.23.2007 21:08
IP address: 24.242.xx.xx

TCP options string: 020405b40103030301010402
MSS: 1460
MTU: 1500
TCP Window: 513920 (multiple of MSS)
RWIN Scaling: 3
Unscaled RWIN : 64240
Reccomended RWINs: 64240, 128480, 256960, 513920
BDP limit (200ms): 20557kbps (2570KBytes/s)
BDP limit (500ms): 8223kbps (1028KBytes/s)
MTU Discovery: ON
TTL: 52
Timestamps: OFF
SACKs: ON
IP ToS: 00000000 (0)

[trogers]

What speed did you pay to get?

[Gibr4n]

5mbps down

[trogers]

Use the following with TCP Optimizer:

General Settings tab:
Custom settings - check
Modify All Network Adapters - check
network adapter selection - your NIC
MTU - 1500
TTL - 64
TCP Receive Window - 64240
MTU Discovery - Yes
Black Hole Detect - No
Selective Acks - Yes
Max Duplicate ACKs - 2
TCP 1323 Options:
Windows Scaling - uncheck
Timestamps - uncheck

Advanced Settings tab:
Max Connections per Server - 10
Max Connections per 1.0 Server - 20
LocalPriority - 1
Host Priority - 1
DNSPriority - 1
NetbtPriority - 1
Lan Browsing speedup - optimized
QoS: NonBestEffortLimit - 0
ToS: DisableUserTOSSetting - 0
ToS: DefaultTOSValue - 80
MaxNegativeCacheTtl - 0
NetFailureCacheTime - 0
NegativeSOACache Time - 0
LAN Request Buffer Size - 32768
Then select "Apply Changes" and reboot to take effect

[Gibr4n]

Dear god its slow. Can anyone tell me what my hardware settings should be?
I have an internal Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Current Settings:

802.1Q VLAN ID: 0
802.1Q/1p VLAN Tagging: Disabled
Jumbo Frame: Disabled
Link Speed/Duplex Mode: 10mbps
Network Address: Not Present
Number of High Priority Tx Descriptor: 256
Number of Rx Descriptor: 128
Number of Tx Descriptor: 256
Offload Checksum: Dsiable
Offload TCP_LargeSend: Disable
WakeUp on ARP/Ping: Enable

WHat should i change?

[trogers]

Are you on a wireless connection?

[Gibr4n]

negative

[trogers]

Follow the tips of this thread and scan and remove all spyware/malware:

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=73799

After that, do a tracert to www.yahoo.com and post.

[Gibr4n]

>tracert www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht2.akadns.net [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * 47 ms 375 ms 10.73.96.1
2 * 97 ms 193 ms fas0-0.wacotxkil-rtr1.hot.rr.com [24.26.192.137]

3 56 ms 71 ms 619 ms srp4-0-0.wacotxbel-rtr1.hot.rr.com [24.26.192.11
4]
4 * 97 ms 159 ms srp2-0.wacotxmhe-rtr2.hot.rr.com [24.26.192.132]

5 55 ms * 77 ms son0-0-0.hstqtxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com [24.93.34.50
]
6 * 301 ms 65 ms 72.179.205.17
7 235 ms 127 ms 121 ms pop2-dls-P2-1.atdn.net [66.185.132.17]
8 175 ms 216 ms 193 ms Teleglobe.atdn.net [66.185.134.54]
9 * 363 ms 104 ms ix-6-0.core1.DTX-Dallas.teleglobe.net [216.6.53.
6]
10 * 268 ms 99 ms ge-0-1-0-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.99
]
11 461 ms 417 ms 67 ms te-8-1.bas-c2.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.193.7]
12 404 ms 294 ms 221 ms f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.93.52]

Trace complete.

[mccoffee]

Looks like there is promblem somehwere on the isp's end ,or past them hop five and down have some really high ping times.

[Gibr4n]

what could i do about that? calling the isp and telling them probably wont be worth it, will it????

[trogers]

>tracert www.yahoo.com

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht2.akadns.net [209.191.93.52]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * 47 ms 375 ms 10.73.96.1
2 * 97 ms 193 ms fas0-0.wacotxkil-rtr1.hot.rr.com [24.26.xxx.xxx]

3 56 ms 71 ms 619 ms srp4-0-0.wacotxbel-rtr1.hot.rr.com [24.26.192.114]


Make sure your modem is not placed near to some other electrical device. Ping time at hop 1 shows value that is timed out and 375ms. If you have a cordless phone nearby, replace it with a line phone.