Lower pings

[netzolt]

I love to play online games, but i just can't handle that lag b/c i'm on a 56k modem. I've got a small lan, so sometimes, i get some friends over and play. It's very fast, with pings around 40-55. I use 3com for everything, with a 4 port switch, and 10/100 nic's. I can't understand how other people can get pings of below 10 on their networks. I know there's a patch that probably could help me, but i'm not for sure which one will help the most. Anyboyd have any ideas?

-Mike :confused:

[sBox]

Try some of the usual culprits: remove unnecessary protocols (make it TCP\IP only), make one of the boxes a master browser and disabling the broadcasts on others, check routing, if applicable, etc.

[Edward]

had the same situation, i noticed my ethernet card was sharing a irq with my sound card, so i moved the ethernet card into a different slot, and it fixed the problem, for me anyways.

hope this helps