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"Lower My Ping"

Ok so I want to know how this can be achieved. Is it easy?
I have a cable modem, Ntl one which is 512k/sec.

So anyone know what settings I should have etc that will lower my ping when I am playing games on-line.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Er, unlock it and get 14mb/s?
>
> But on a more legal note, 512k/s is justfine for gaming. Ping
> vie.intritus.net and tell me what you get.
>
S'true! I can still 0wn on 56k, so ADSL will be fine.

MUST...HAVE...ADSL...

i get very low pings on BY cable around 50 mark and below

AliBoy wrote:
> packets sent - 4 packets recieved - 4 lost - 0
>
> min - 26ms max - 43ms ave - 32ms

Hm, better.

I hate pings. Pings hate me. I get a ping of 80ms on an ADSL modem, I used to get 250 - 360ms on modems and the pings always jump up and down.

As I said, we don't like each other :/
I've tried everything to lower them. I never manage it though.

packets sent - 4 packets recieved - 4 lost - 0

min - 26ms max - 43ms ave - 32ms

--- host.com ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 33% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 297.2/314.9/339.2 ms


Jesus christ, and I'm on a 56k

Do this:

ping vie.intrius.net

--- vie.intrius.net ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 135.0/144.2/150.2 ms

That was from one of the computers on my network, usually I use the one that is connected to the modem to play the game and none of the other computers on the network are on.
So I guess those numbers will be roughly the same for the other computer too. I'll check it later.

ok pinged the host.com one and got

minimum - 228ms maximum - 426ms average - 304ms

Yes, run "command".

ping hotmail.com
ping www.hotmail.com
ping 64.4.45.7

They will all work.

ping hotmail.com/file.htm
ping hotmail.com:12345
ping 64.4.45.7:67890

They will all screw over. Just run "ping host.com" or "ping 123.245.212.251" (meaning "ip").

OK?

Tweak your graphics and it won't lag as much, even though it will be uglier.

Pinging is easy:
Start > Run > Type 'command' (black DOS window pops up)

Enter ping [address], for example ping www.hotmail.com