Hi all. I've been working with Dr Olds in the Elnk DSL forum and have made some progress. I've had consistently high ping times for as long as I can remember. It really only effects online gaming so It's not the end of the world but every now and then I get frustrated enough to try and fix it. Dr Olds suggested I post here for further help. Here's the tests (I hope)
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/tweak ··· terpppoeA Speedtest.net result shows 3.05 mb/s dn and .32 up instead of the 2.88 dn that the linked test above shows. While running these tests I showed 73ms latency to the Washington server (comcast) but twice got 37ms to the NY sever (Speakeasy) which is VERY unusual. I typically get 57ms to the ATLANTA server, which I am right next to, using Speedtest.net.
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/lineq ··· /2634544Here is a recent 24hr Smokeping test:
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/r3/sm ··· de932683I am on ELNK DSL at '3.0/.3' dn/up although the Zyxel P-660R-D1 shows sync rates of 3554/384 and I typically get better than 85% of that. After installing a Home Run (learned from this site, thank you) my line quality went way up and we were able to upgrade to the 3.0. Bandwidth isn't really an issue, it's the pings that are bothering me. I use XP and have one other computer on the network but it is hardly used. The Zyxel is a NAT router. The distance calculator says 'closed'. If that really becomes important I'll try to force it out of Elnk.
Here's a tracert to Google:
Tracing route to google.com [66.249.90.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms user-1121s01.dsl.mindspring.com [66.32.240.1]
3 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms dir04-vl-5.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [199.174
.118.17]
4 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms cor01-vl96.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [209.165
.96.1]
5 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms bor01-g2-3.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [207.69.
223.144]
6 240 ms 200 ms 75 ms bor01-ae1.ga-atlanta1.ne.earthlink.net [209.86.6
6.50]
7 45 ms 45 ms 46 ms aix.pr1.atl.google.com [198.32.132.41]
8 45 ms 102 ms 85 ms 72.14.233.56
9 70 ms 70 ms 181 ms 209.85.254.49
10 68 ms 69 ms 68 ms 216.239.43.112
11 69 ms 69 ms 68 ms 209.85.241.222
12 69 ms 68 ms 69 ms lga15s04-in-f104.1e100.net [66.249.90.104]
Trace complete.
And one to dslreports:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 47 ms 46 ms 47 ms user-1121s01.dsl.mindspring.com [66.32.240.1]
3 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms dir03-vl-5.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [199.17
.118.1]
4 45 ms 46 ms 46 ms cor01-vl96.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [209.16
.96.1]
5 47 ms 47 ms 46 ms bor01-g2-3.ga-atlanta0.ne.earthlink.net [207.69
223.144]
6 46 ms 47 ms 47 ms bor01-ae1.ga-atlanta1.ne.earthlink.net [209.86.
6.50]
7 47 ms 45 ms 46 ms 99.xe-0-1-0.cr1.atl1.us.nlayer.net [198.32.132.
8]
8 61 ms 62 ms 67 ms xe-0-1-0.cr2.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.106]
9 61 ms 61 ms 59 ms ae1-40g.cr1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.31.153]
10 66 ms 65 ms 65 ms xe-5-1-0.cr1.nyc3.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.93]
11 69 ms 80 ms 79 ms po3.ar1.ewr1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.95.157]
12 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms as8001.te2-3.ar1.ewr1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.95.1
0]
13 66 ms 67 ms 67 ms 0.e1-4.tbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.122]
14 67 ms 66 ms 66 ms vlan804.esd1.oct.nac.net [209.123.10.2]
15 67 ms 67 ms 66 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
Trace complete.
These numbers are about 10% better than they were after working with Dr Olds. Mostly involving losing a flaky router and just using the Zyxel router/modem from Elnk.
Can anybody interpret the Smokeping test? I'm not reading that one very well.
I know there's alot here, thanks for all your time.
So Crates