Twoods196
join:2007-04-11
| ISDN Issues and a Few Questions
Hello All, I got ISDN about 1-2 years ago and got it for gaming on Xbox Live. To my delight it has been working great and havent had any problems up till now. Here latly it seems my pings are getting way worse. I Play alot of halo 3 and my status bar has been in the yellow and red and very hard to play. I can sometimes reboot the router and it will work perfect for a few games then go back to the same ole thing. I did a ping from my PC and im getting in the 250ms area. When I first go it I was hitting around 75-100ms. Does anyone know of some things I can check to see whats going on? Also I was interested in Multi-Linking ISDN. Could my Cisco 804 or 803...(cant remember which one mind went blank) do this? If so Do I just call the phone company an add another ISDN line? Will my ISP Support my names being on twice? I have ISDNISP, or maybe even get IDSL which seems to be impossible to find out how to get it. Considering I do not use my ISDN for Voice at all. Im thinking a bigger pipe would help tackle the data its downloading. Majority of the tiem we have two people playing at same time here on the same connection but even with one playing it still goes in red. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
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Twoods196
join:2007-04-11
| Forgot to add that when I got ISDN i just unhooekd the old phone line that ran in here and plugged it into the ISDN outlet outsidel and used the jack that is in here. Is this ok? or should I run RJ45 Outside in? Also the line is a single phone line line. Does this still mean im getting the 128k Connection? On my router it has two orange lights that stay solid then to the right of each one it has a few that blinks. I figured it solid light was a channel at was connecting to both of them but rather ask and make sure. |
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wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
·Teliax VOIP
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If you're not seeing packet loss, your connection is fine and your ISP just sucks. Either that or you (or someone else in your house) started using p2p, youtube, or something else and it's sucking up all the bandwidth.
ISDN (at least the U interface, which is what your 804 uses..an 803 wouldn't be working now) only needs 1 pair. Multilink generally refers to using both channels of your ISDN line to give you 128k, although with different equipment it would be possible to link more than 2 channels. Both orange lights being on indicates that's already working.
Finding an ISP to support it would be difficult, and it would require new equipment that supports more than one BRI and another ISDN line.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word.  |
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Twoods196
join:2007-04-11
| 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. |
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wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK
·Future Nine Corpor..
·Teliax VOIP
| 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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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word. |
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underscore_
join:2004-02-25
Holland, MI | reply to Twoods196
I have used ISDN for h3 and gears of war up until this july when i got uverse installed, i was having this exact problem and i found out my next door neighbor was stealing my wireless. |
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