PC gaming Tech → I'm Back

Lost my DSL in July (Flashcom) when I moved. Tried other ISP's like Earthlink. No luck. Based on recommendations from some folks here on dslreports, I finally tried Capunet. Glad I listened. They got me set up quickly. Great pings in Quake3 (30-60ms) on servers within 12 hops. Here's a tracert to YAHOO:

Tracing route to www.yahoo.akadns.net [216.32.74.53]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 29 ms 36 ms 33 ms cd-180-1.ra30.dc.capu.net [64.50.180.1]
2 18 ms 19 ms 20 ms fe4-0-0.core.vie.capu.net [205.177.76.97]
3 21 ms 23 ms 22 ms 500.Serial1-3.GW4.DCA8.ALTER.NET [157.130.46.13]
4 20 ms 23 ms 23 ms 0.so-3-2-0.XR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET [152.63.35.198]
5 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms POS6-0.GW2.DCA8.ALTER.NET [146.188.162.197]
6 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms exodus-OC12.DCA8.customer.alter.net [157.130.42.
58]
7 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms dcr03-g10-0.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.96.161]
8 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms csr22-ve242.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.98.19]
9 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms 216.35.210.126
10 22 ms 22 ms 23 ms www.yahoo.akadns.net [216.32.74.53]

So far so good. It's great to be back!

Welcome back.
Do you have a review of your Capunet service? My Flashcom is turning into Telocity soon and I am looking for other options just in case.

Reddwyng,

My review is at http://www.dslreports.com/comments/361.

You might also consider switching to @Home cable.

I have 608/128 with good pings. Since I was stuck off-line for about 5 months, I did a lot of research. If you check out Dr. Ping in the Tools section of DSLReports
http://www.dslreports.com/beta/doctorping/VA

you'll see that I scored an average ping of 62, however, the majority of people who have @home in our area have lower average pings. Not only that, @Home offers 1.5M bandwidth and it's cheaper ($40/mo.)

Unfortunately, @Home is not scheduled to upgrade the cable internet services in my area of Arlington until early next year. Currently, cable offered in my area is about 400K down but I would have to use a 56K modem over the phone line for upload, which sucks, cause then I'ld need a second line anyway, plus it's $50/mo. Go figure.

Anyway, Good luck.

Thanks for the updates. I'm in Alexandria, and in the same boat for Cable Access. Cox is "in the process" for getting Road Runner to my neighborhood, but it is supposed to be soon.
I currently have 416/416 SDSL from NorthPoint and like the higher upload speed, especially for gaming, even though I've had less time to do that lately
Telocity will be a month to month deal, with the same speed for $49.95, so we'll see how that goes for a couple of months.

Here's what I get to yahoo now:

Tracing route to www4.dcx.yahoo.com [216.32.74.53]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms d83b6a01.dsl.flashcom.net [216.59.106.1]
2 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 216.32.90.98
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms dcr04-g2-0.hrnd01.exodus.net [216.33.203.25]
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms bbr02-g3-0.hrnd01.exodus.net [216.33.203.94]
5 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms bbr02-p2-0.stng01.exodus.net [209.185.9.78]
6 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms dcr03-g9-0.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.96.145]
7 9 ms 9 ms 17 ms csr21-ve240.stng01.exodus.net [216.33.98.2]
8 31 ms 8 ms 9 ms 216.35.210.122
9 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms www4.dcx.yahoo.com [216.32.74.53]

and a decent Dr. Ping:
Your Score: 46.5
(all-user average score is 90.9)

I'm hoping to hang on to these numbers for a while.

[text was edited by author 2000-12-19 07:31:31]