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Re: ISDN Issues and a Few Questions said by Twoods196:There is no one else in the house using it cause I have the only PC in my room and when I play I disable my network adapter. Could you recomend a ISP that has good reviews? Im using ISDNISP and got them from here but if its them causing this I would want to change. Is the latency always high, or just at certain times of day? It's always possible the XBL games are using more bandwidth than they used to (although I doubt that they're using 128k). You can check the 5 second average by telnetting to your router and entering the right command (which I sadly can't remember right now..its "show interface dialer 0" (or maybe "show interface dialer dialer0"..I forget, it's been a long time) Look for the lines that say "5 minute input rate" and "5 minute output rate." If you do that while you're in a game, you'll be able to tell how the bandwidth usage is doing.
If you like, you could see about figuring out how to enable snmp on your router. I know it supports it, it's probably as simple as going into the configuration (telnet in and type "conf term") and doing "snmp-server community public ro," then hitting control-z to exit.
You can then use a tool like PRTG (presuming you're running windows) to get a nice graph of your bandwidth use over time. From that you can tell whether your problem is that you've outgrown ISDN or if it's just slowness on your ISP's part.
As far as an ISP, I'd see if there are any local dial-up ISPs still around. They tend to have prety good service if you can find them. Most dial-up ISPs can support ISDN if they're willing, as they use ISDN lines at their end so people can get 56k modem connections. Oftentimes, ISDN will just work with them, although you won't get multilink unless they're set up for it, and you'll need that for gaming. 64k won't cut it.
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