$20 reward for anyone that can give answer to problem.

[Pzykotik]

haha, he'll post back from a library in a day or two crying about how his connection is fubar...

[grunger]

lol, if he ever does get back, I'd like to know which router he's using and the state of the NAT on it......

[F1refly]

phfff...yeah i have a fix, just switch back to Comcast cable. worked fine when you had it? great then keep what works. or throw everything in the trash and buy a new PC, router, modem..etc and a DSL from another provider or buy a faster connection. kinda obvious

if not then your not that desperate are ya.
its a guranteed fix...so wheres my money?

[Passion Fruit]

It got lost in the post.

[F1refly]

Originally Posted by Passion Fruit

It got lost in the post.

aw, man, he ebayed me

thats ok, he'll want help with something someday

[Jordus]

i dont care about the money, i juts want to know what fixed it.

[Arjan0597]

Start - Run - CMD :

netsh int ip reset reset.log [ENTER]
netsh winsock reset catalog [ENTER]

[REBOOT]

[Pigchild]

Originally Posted by Ant

or you all have helped him screw his connection up so much he is mia!

I'm still here. I'm sorry I haven't posted back in a while. I was out of town for a couple weeks with work.

I spent this afternoon trying all of the suggested fixes that were posted. Unfortunatly none made any difference and the problem still exists.

Thanks for all the suggestions though. At least I can rule them all out as a source of the problem. I also reinstalled Windows Vista 64 just to see if perhaps that might correct the issue. That didn't work either.

I called Bell south tech support again. Everytime I call I get some guy from India that I can't understand. They kept reading from a damn script and I really don't think the dude had a freakin clue.

Maybe it's just some freak thing with this DSL Modem. (I don't use a router, only one comp on this connection)

I'm gonna try to see if I can get them to send another DSL modem.
I know plenty of people that play Starcraft with DSL so I know it can be done.

Sheesh! I have never had a tech issue so difficult to solve.

[Trevor56]

I'm telling you it is your dsl modem and the game Starcraft. They don't mix well. I have the same problem, it is just how it is. Bell fails btw.

[swelch304]

I have always been told that dsl CAN be poor for gaming because of latency issues. DSL is a pretty "fragile" technology. More than 8 foot of phone cable between the jack and modem, a slight crinkle in said phone line, poor phone wireing in the house, missing a phone filter somewhere, can all severely affect dsl latency. DSL runs at an extremely high frequency across a spagettie thin piece of copper wire that typically has nearly no shielding. This cause the signal to travel only at the surface of the wire and not in the core. So any slight scratch or crinkle in the surface of the copper can cause issue. Also, any of the cables going to the modem can pick up interference if they are laying across or near any high power lines (i.e. the cord to your power strip ect..).

In my experience cable is always better for gaming than DSL. Why did you switch?

[Pigchild]

Originally Posted by swelch304

I have always been told that dsl CAN be poor for gaming because of latency issues. DSL is a pretty "fragile" technology. More than 8 foot of phone cable between the jack and modem, a slight crinkle in said phone line, poor phone wireing in the house, missing a phone filter somewhere, can all severely affect dsl latency. DSL runs at an extremely high frequency across a spagettie thin piece of copper wire that typically has nearly no shielding. This cause the signal to travel only at the surface of the wire and not in the core. So any slight scratch or crinkle in the surface of the copper can cause issue. Also, any of the cables going to the modem can pick up interference if they are laying across or near any high power lines (i.e. the cord to your power strip ect..).

In my experience cable is always better for gaming than DSL. Why did you switch?

Got tired of paying $58.00 a month for cable high speed service. Not to mention that Comcast here in Memphis sucks really bad.

[Crossfire]

Originally Posted by Sparx

Haha, you think?

He's just trying to increase post-count.


And to the people saying alternative DNS Servers can't help in game, I speak on behalf of TreeWalk and it does help me in games. Expecialy FEAR -- Lowers my ping significantly.

Also, TCP Optimizer can help.

[Crossfire]

Originally Posted by swelch304

I have always been told that dsl CAN be poor for gaming because of latency issues. DSL is a pretty "fragile" technology. More than 8 foot of phone cable between the jack and modem, a slight crinkle in said phone line, poor phone wireing in the house, missing a phone filter somewhere, can all severely affect dsl latency. DSL runs at an extremely high frequency across a spagettie thin piece of copper wire that typically has nearly no shielding. This cause the signal to travel only at the surface of the wire and not in the core. So any slight scratch or crinkle in the surface of the copper can cause issue. Also, any of the cables going to the modem can pick up interference if they are laying across or near any high power lines (i.e. the cord to your power strip ect..).

In my experience cable is always better for gaming than DSL. Why did you switch?

I don't know who told you that buy they don't know what they're talking about.


Cable uses crappy technology for their routing. They have one modem (Connection) per small-area and those people (In the small-area) use that connection.

Therefore, if somebody two doors down is downloading video torrents at their max speed and other people (In your small-area) are streaming and downloading stuff, your connection is going to fail in games due to lack of throughput.


In DSL, you have one modem in the clients' house and a connection from your modem to your ISP's network host. Therefore, you don't have to worry about other people slowing down your speeds; unless, your ISP isn't paying for enough bandwidth for their users and then you will experience crappy speeds/pings.


My DSL host didn't have enough bandwidth for their users back about three years ago and I couldn't play games, stream videos, or hardly download until about 11 PM when people started getting off and thats when I got speed.

[Finchwizard]

DNS won't help your pings.

Most games don't even use DNS, they just use IP's for everything, so there's no need to convert between them.

Plus after you query an IP, Windows will cache it to begin with for a while, so it's not always querying.

The TCP stack optimizers will help, and you can tune for the particular thing you want to do, but can affect your performance in other areas of networking, which is why it's a good idea to just keep the standard stack, unless your seriously having issues, and generally it's just an MTU issue, but even then it's weird. It just doesn't happen that often unless something else is screwy.

[Crossfire]

Originally Posted by Finchwizard

DNS won't help your pings.

Most games don't even use DNS, they just use IP's for everything, so there's no need to convert between them.

Plus after you query an IP, Windows will cache it to begin with for a while, so it's not always querying.

The TCP stack optimizers will help, and you can tune for the particular thing you want to do, but can affect your performance in other areas of networking, which is why it's a good idea to just keep the standard stack, unless your seriously having issues, and generally it's just an MTU issue, but even then it's weird. It just doesn't happen that often unless something else is screwy.

Well, I guess my connection got better then because after I started using OpenDNS and TreeWalk my pings lowered 5-10ms

[Finchwizard]

I think it's just coincidence, because DNS just doesn't work that way.