Help with cable sharing and high pings!!!

[chicken]

I have ATTBI cable and I get 2mb/300k

Me and my brother both play Unreal Tournament and a few months it started lagging when we both played at the same time.

It is not a routing issue or anything like that, I am positive of this as it only lags when we both join servers, and if we set our game's netspeed at like 3000 bytes the ping goes back to normal.

I tried limiting the MTU size of all the computers, and it seemed to work at first but then it went to crap again.

We used to play on full netspeed at the same time with no problems :(

UT uses a maximum of 7KB/s upload speed, and if we both upload at that speed our pings go to 400-2000

If we both join UT servers and I do a traceroute to anywhere, it shows 400 ping for every hop. Has anyone run into this problem and figured out a way to fix this, I can't believe I can upload at 35KB/s yet my whole network gets 400 ping. NOT FAIR!!!

[chicken]

I forgot to mention that we do pay extra for seperate IPs from ATTBI, but they only let us use it for 3 computers so I have 2 computers directly on the hub and 2 computers on a linksys router. (This happened even before I got the 4th computer and hooked up the router)

[zxc47]

Chicken: Well looks like you need a router with load balance have had the same problem your having. So I got a Nexland pro800 turbo router and set it up this way. From the cable modem one-cat6 lines to a 5 port hub uplink port. Then two-cat6 line to the two wan ports on the Nexland pro800 turbo then a cat6 line to each computer.
The nexland turbo because it has two wan port the cable modem give each port an IP the router has load balance no more problem.
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http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/NexlandPro800TurboReview.html-ssi
this is a trace with the other computer on line in a game
Tracing route to www.speedguide.net [63.217.30.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms 10.60.0.1
3 10 ms 11 ms 9 ms CAE-IRM-7507-A-OC-3-600.SC.RR.COM [24.31.193.61]

4 16 ms 9 ms 9 ms CAE-MHE-GSR-A-OC-3-02.SC.RR.COM [24.31.193.1]
5 17 ms 14 ms 15 ms pop1-cha-P3-1.atdn.net [198.81.2.177]
6 17 ms 13 ms 15 ms bb2-cha-P0-0.atdn.net [64.236.4.37]
7 25 ms 22 ms 25 ms bb2-ash-P13-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.101]
8 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms bb2-dtc-P1-2.atdn.net [66.185.152.34]
9 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms bb2-dcl-p4-0.atdn.net [66.185.153.69]
10 28 ms 24 ms 24 ms pop1-dcl-P6-1.atdn.net [66.185.145.226]
11 23 ms 34 ms 29 ms pos2-0.core1.wdc.cais.net [63.216.1.90]
12 29 ms 22 ms 28 ms pos5-0.colo1.mcl.cais.net [63.216.0.34]
13 24 ms 28 ms 25 ms 63.217.30.70

Trace complete.
this is a speed test with other computer on in game
File Size: 1.4648 MB
Time Elapsed: 5.939 seconds

1.973 Mbps
(252.57 KBps
speed test with only one computer on line
File Size: 600.005 KB
Time Elapsed: 1.762 seconds
2.66 Mbps
(340.52 KBps
PS:I am cap at 2Mbs down and 384 up

[chicken]

I was thinking that but I used to play just fine on the hub with 2 computers on full netspeed. I will try hooking all the comps to the linksys router tomorrow and see if that helps.

[zxc47]

chicken: I can't tell you how much the nexland router did for my network. I started out with a linksys 4 port router. The linksys just can't do the job under heavy load. With the nexland you can't even tell the other computer is on line or in a game with both computer playing on line games. with both computer in half life both allways ping 80 to 50 all the time never over 100. With the linksys you may get one to get good ping but the other computer will start out low then get very high with a big load