Actually, my service that I'm getting is 8Mbps. The 6Mbps was $60 since I'm not a cable subscriber. The 8Mbps is only $2/mo more AND comes with a 6-month discount rate of $35/mo. I hope this works out well. I'll be pissed if I go through the trouble of swapping service and things still suck.
MY ping rate last night went over 400. Is there anything I can do to lower my latency? I'm changing services tomorrow morning but if there is something I can do with my modem/WAP to make it faster I'd like to try. I'll be running a Motorola Surfboard.
Ping to what? If it was in TF2, I can toss you a couple ingame rate commands to try to straighten that out.
I was using Win Vista Ultimate and yes, I am wireless. I've got basic WEP encryption. Nate, please send me those commands.
Screw qwest, screw comcast visi FTW Uses qwest lines, but you never have to talk to them 7M line Actively encourages hosting, no filtering or caps (if you were using 7M 24/7, they wouldn't care as long as you weren't reselling bandwidth), all ports, no downtime (and I mean not 1 second I'm aware of) in at least a year
I'm Comcast and my game machine is wireless. You've seen my pings. I think Smiley's 2Fort I ping a consistant 10-15.
Comcast Business Class is the same way, except that the tech told me they don't even care if you do resell the bandwidth, since you're already paying for it. My boss had Comcast Residential up until they switched off port 25 a couple of months ago. He upgraded to Business Class in a hurry, and is absolutely delighted with it. Your choice of service really does depend on your intended use. Don't get mad at Comcast because you can't run your server farm properly off their Residential offering. Same goes for DSL. DSL's advantage is that it reaches places that cable doesn't. Consider yourself lucky if you have a choice of providers. Stuart.
Yeah, those look close. Those commands are the first I would play with if your ingame latency is abnormally high.
I think it's about $60 right now with a two year agreement. Costs more if you don't sign up for the long term. You can also add static IPs for a little extra per month. Stuart.
That's not that bad, but a bit more $$$ This is month to month though (no contract). Comes with static IP.
Nope. No SP1, yet. I should do that but I'm about *this* close to going back to XP on the big compy (only for SLI. Otherwise I really like Vista). When the cable gets installed the big computer will be hardwired into the modem and everyone else will have to suck at the wireless teat. The Qwest modem is too far from ANY computer to get a hardline.
I have about 300 feet of CAT5 cable, a cable crimper and connections but I don't want to drill holes in the wall or trip over cable. Plus, every computer (all 4 of them) has a wireless card or built-in adapter.
Keep in mind that Comcast has a "burst" speed which make things like speed tests look a lot faster than sustained bandwidth will really be.
