im new to this forum so please try to use some words that i may understand a little in replying to this post.

everytime during the weekdays at 6-11 pm est my connection just stinks. its just as slow as dial up and i get so frustrated. anytime after or before its fast as hell. i think it may be the peak hours but i dont think that it'll hurt my connection that bad? i want to do something about it but i have no idea what. and also i play madden 05 online alot and when i do play it during the peak hours its so laggy.

any suggestion will be appreciated. if i cant find what the problem is i may even have to switch to dsl.

Oh i have road runner as my ISP, and i live in philadelphia. im currently using a 4 port linksys router. i have windows xp home edition and i have almost no spyware and have a ton of ram cuz i know to make sure that i keep my computer clean.

i dont know my advertised speed but here is the speed during the peak hours.


::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 606 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Download Speed is:: 74 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 11 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 13.84 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=CRYNYFDTG


i will post my regular speed tomorrow in the morning

wow... thats rr cable?  or dsl?  Because i know dsl may be effected during peak hours, but theirs no reason in hell cable should be effected that much..

funny i heard it was reversed

VanBuren

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Christian.YOUR-YAPIBZLAGU>tracert testmy.net

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     7 ms    11 ms     5 ms  10.63.128.1
  2     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  srp1-0.phlapahh-rtr2.ucwphilly.rr.com [24.168.12
8.146]
  3    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  pos8-1.nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com [24.168.128.165]

  4    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  pos6-0-nycmnyrdc-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.97.1]
  5    10 ms    10 ms     9 ms  so-1-0.hsa2.Weehawken1.Level3.net [63.208.104.5]

  6    18 ms    12 ms    11 ms  so-6-2-0.mp2.Weehawken1.Level3.net [209.247.8.81
]
  7    48 ms    48 ms    49 ms  so-0-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.159.0.137]

  8    48 ms    49 ms    48 ms  ge-1-2-56.car3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.166]

  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10    53 ms    52 ms    54 ms  dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.30]
 11    54 ms    53 ms    53 ms  dist-vlan22.dsr1-2.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.76]
 12    54 ms    54 ms    54 ms  dsr2-2-v1.dllstx4.theplanet.com [12.96.160.8]
 13    53 ms    54 ms    54 ms  gig1-0-1.tp-car9-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.
116.70]
 14    54 ms    55 ms    54 ms  6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Christian.YOUR-YAPIBZLAGU>

this is during off peak hours.

It usally tells where the bottleneck is, when a nod is overloaded ping goes skyhigh

lets see how it looks like when he post at peak time.

VanBuren

And I took one too:
  1   982 ms     9 ms     9 ms  **********
  2    19 ms    13 ms    10 ms  Gig6-0.zp00rt02.brain.upc.nl [212.142.23.225]
  3    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  srp13-0.ah00rt01.brain.upc.nl [212.142.32.137]
  4    20 ms    15 ms    24 ms  srp8-0.ah00rt02.brain.upc.nl [212.142.32.50]
  5    30 ms    38 ms    14 ms  nl-ams02a-ra5-10ge-0-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.161.1
65]
  6    19 ms    14 ms    15 ms  nl-ams02a-rd2-pos-5-2.aorta.net [213.46.161.45]

  7    18 ms    15 ms    16 ms  nl-ams05a-rd1-10gige-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.2
]
  8    16 ms    14 ms    15 ms  213.46.161.142
  9    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  pos5-1.mpr2.ams1.nl.above.net [62.4.95.241]
 10   124 ms   122 ms   123 ms  pos8-0.mpr1.ams1.nl.above.net [208.184.231.181]

 11   123 ms   122 ms   122 ms  pos2-0.cr1.ams2.nl.above.net [208.184.231.54]
 12    24 ms    24 ms    23 ms  so-5-0-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.31.153]
 13    94 ms    94 ms    95 ms  so-7-0-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186]
 14    95 ms    96 ms    95 ms  so-0-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.122]
 15   126 ms   122 ms   123 ms  so-2-3-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.13]
 16   124 ms   123 ms   124 ms  64.124.79.77.available.above.net [64.124.79.77]

 17   125 ms   122 ms   122 ms  dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.30]
 18   123 ms   122 ms   128 ms  dist-vlan22.dsr1-2.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.
127.76]
 19   124 ms   124 ms   126 ms  dsr2-1-v2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [12.96.160.39]
 20   127 ms   123 ms   122 ms  gig1-0-2.tp-car9-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.
116.86]
 21   123 ms   126 ms   124 ms  6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6]

9 ms first hop... that's good.
124 avg ping to testmy.net... that's great.

right click choose all text and copy

VanBuren