A tip for you internet connection

there are so many people who sit and wonder why they get lag and im gonna hopefully sovle some of this for you.
First when playing a game you shouldnt have other internet apps goin and this includes stuff like windows auto update and msn.
In theory alot of connections can handle it but information does collide.
If you are using a firewall make sure your game has the appropriate .exe exceptions made.
If you are on a router you should without a doubt be on the dmz or demilitarize.
If you are using a wireless router keep in mind there are three wireless protocol 802.11b/g/n.
todays games shouldnt be used with wireless b or g.
Wireless n was made for streaming media as well as games wireless without interruption or latency.
If you do have a wireless g make sure it has mimo.
If you do get a wireless n router you will see an improvement if you are using a wireless g card but when you get the wireless n card my god you will be pleasantly suprised.
The most important thing is knowing that you tx and rx levels are normal as well as to signal to noise. TO make it easier when you log into the modem itself you will see status. There will be three sets of important numbers.
Federal guidlines are such and some modems dont specify tx and rx so im just gonna give the numbers.
-15db to 15db is the federal guideling however in areas with cold winters and hot summers it is -12 to +12 cause of expected 3db fluctuation with the temp changes.
+35db to 55db. Usually again the range will change in area like mine cause of climate change to 38-50 is acceptable however when these level are on the line something should be done.
signals always fluctuate and if one is off the packets get looped back through not only causing a problem for your connection and possibly effecting your entire node/network up to 1024 people.
SN ratio should be 35-40.
Last thing is the modem makes the connection.
ALot of companies are still using the first generation surfboards which started as texas instrument then turned into motorolla and these are not suppose to be in use.
THey are made for a 10/100 network however when they were developed the software didnt like the 100 side.
If you are using and old modem and in specific old beige surfboard get rid of it.
When it comes to brands i have found that motorolla's are hte second most reliable.
The first ebing the old lancity metal heat sync modems made by bay networks which are no longer use at all due to the changes from non doxcys to doxcys.
Motorolla sb5120 and above are very sweet.
If you are using a MTA which is a box that you get your internet from and your telephony from your cable company you will see you connection drop at times.
This is because the software here again is having dns issues and i know for a fact the rca is notorious for it.
I havent used the ******** hybrid yet but it is still a new technology that alot cable companies arent even touching yet.
If you do not know the login ip for your modem simply google manual for the model and it will be there, Or if your company has good support give them a call and ask for the transmit and receive levels.

You now know the guidelines and if levels are off the last technician didnt do his job right or you decided to do your own splitting of the cable line and used crappy fittings/rg69/bad splitter.
here is a link for my connections speed.....i pay 49.99 a month and this is what i get after fine tuning all programs and turning off the ones not needed.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/407681430.png

sorry for the structure but it was alot of crap to fit in....i do apologize im use to reading things as they would appear in a book and to me the tighter it is the faster i can read it. My bad...hopefully this is easier to read now

 

that is absolutely impossible to read

 

*waves hand* "These are not the paragraphs we are looking for".

 

Please reformat your post. No one can read that without a reformatting.

deltatux

 

wow, you have insanely fast internets! I'm very jealous right now being stuck on 8Mbps down, 512Kbps Up...

 

edit:Yep bit harsh, sorry for my comment... bad day at work.

Enjoy your stay here mudgunner.

 

i think people are being a bit harsh to a guy just trying to help others

 

i agree. hes trying to contribute to the community people. granted the post is hard to decipher. that doesnt mean we have to be jerks does it?

 

You, sir, crossed the line uke2:

 

That was rather painful, and I mean no offense, but it doesn't seem to contain anything of use :/

That, for example. You're posting on a hardware enthusiast site and telling us leaving apps running that use the internet may take up some bandwidth?

Jeez, that's a little condescending.

That's just lolworthy.

If you're going to make posts like this, format them correctly, then post them on the PC World forums or something.

 

I can read it just fine

 

do people just have no sense of how other people will take their comments about them?

OP joined last month and has 7 posts and thought he'd try help and obviously spent a long time writing that, when he checks back hes gonna be be a bit downtrodden and probably wont bother again..

for shame!

 

Meh my posts gets bashed all time lol so don't worry about it.

 

I thought a clever Star Wars reference was a suitable way of implying that paragraphs are needed...

 

Personally I'd prefer honest feedback over everyone just smiling politely at me and shaking their heads.

 

Its a forum... on the internet

 

Either you learn from your mistakes or from someone elses. I tend to learn more from my own. And OP's post was a total explosion of words. Seems that he wrote in some unthinkable frenzy, but that's a lot text right there. But next time make it more quality, not quantity or even better both In the meantime you get an applause from for the patience to write that much text

 

lmao @ everything....

 

i wouldnt mind some feedback if at least ONE person actually said anything about what i had posted in the first place

"blah blah blah on-topic. oh and btw, blah blah blah feedback" is much nicer than telling him what hes saying is "lolsworthy", im sure there'll be people here who either forgot little things like that or didnt know it in the first place, specially in the general hardware section where alot of people sign up to ask things and might just see it and learn something, you wernt born knowing that were you?

 

Seriously, you think there are people on this forum that don't understand how to use a firewall? :/

People like that tend to gravitate to the PC format forums, or some bright shiny corner of the internet of similar ilk. Guru3D is not an idiot convention.

I thought his post was condescending, not particularly useful, and poorly formatted. I commend his efforts, but I'm not going to pretend otherwise.