Im a cable user and I get the phonejack very often. I know cable is prone to PL but I also think I may have a problem with my NIC or settings. I'll troubleshoot it when I have some time (which means I probably have to bring my PC to work and claim it is a user machine) Lag is always there no matter what. As to good ping to NewZeland from the east coast, well the main culprit to lag is the number of hops you go through, more hops means more servers to have to wait your turn in. If you are connecting to a NewZeland server with reletively few hops then you will have low ping. If you remove all the hops then your data is moving at close to lightspeed and you would hve virtualy no lag at all. This is why direct dial-up 28.8 between two PCs sometimes are faster than an ISDN over the Net. You can usualy expect a minimum of about 4 hops to just get outside your ISP. After that you are cruising ether. One good way to see if your ISP is guilty of your high ping is to go to a DOS window and type this
C:\windows\tracert {URL}
{URL} is any address you want to use as standard. I usualy use
C:\windows\tracert
www.yahoo.com
After that you will be givven a listing of each hop you are sent through and a timing of each ping...
It will look like this
* 24 48 24.25.26.00
*=request timed out, These should be a red flag as they will cause PL
The numbers are your ping to that particular server. The last listing will either be an IP or http adress.
If you see high numbers or * in the first few hops then the problem is in your ISP. Get a new one or if you are brave, get on the phone and tell them about it.
High numbers or * in the later listings are on the Internet and beyond you or your ISP's ability to controll, live with it.
I love this command. Last week I spotted a crippled server on RoadRunners network and once I called, they fixed it and my PL at the same time.
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[This message has been edited by D66 (edited 02-28-2000).]