How can I decrease latency?

As long as your cabling is fine and there's not exxessive traffic on your network(at home, which i doubt unless your having a lan party with a 100 people) then it's the ISP =).

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I see you finally have your own domaim.

The only thing you can do is switch ISPs. Its their slow/congested hardware.

Heres some info i found:

<i>Q: My latency (ping times) are high, even though my transfer rate is good.

A: If your latency is consistently high, you need to question your provider as to your routing. Many ISPs are not national, but are able to sell DSL nationally. In certain cases, they must route traffic all over the place even if you are trying to use local game servers or sites. In other cases, the ISP has real (and hopefully temporary) routing problems, or a critical failure and they are on backup.

Normally network specialists plan for optimal routing, but during fast growth, your ISP may have got into a situation where customers pay penalty in ping time while the ISP figures out how to resolve the problem.

The first step in diagnosis of high latency is to figure out the ping time to your default gateway. You may do this by using the Line Quality tool at this site, or by using Visual Route from Datametrics (<A HREF="http://www.visualroute.com" target="_new">http://www.visualroute.com</A> ).

If your default gateway ping is good, the next step is to get a trace to a server that you believe should be nearby. Ideally, nearby servers are available with a few number of hops and low total latency.</i>

<A HREF="http://www.dslreports.com/faq/faq/all#160" target="_new">http://www.dslreports.com/faq/faq/all#160</A>

<i>If you have a slow connection speed, It could be a network problem(routers or ATM Cloud). You can go to the MS-DOS prompt and do a "tracert ". The first 3 pings are going to be the routers on your ISP's network. The destinations just after the first 3 pings are going to be the backbone provider's routers. If you have high latency(100+ ms) on the first 3 routers, it could be a bad router or problem with the ATM cloud. If your 4th hop is really bad, then they are having problems with their backbone in that area.</i>

<A HREF="http://www.dslreports.com/faq/amfaq/all#698" target="_new">http://www.dslreports.com/faq/amfaq/all#698</A>

- What do you want to feel today?

Latency can be caused by alot of differnt factors, if you are going through sbc then it could be a ATM problem, or a gateway issue or possibly even a backbone problem in which sbc has no control. Id have sbc run atm traces and pings to rule out there horrible atm network, and see if you can find anything out.

Maybe you can try some of these <A HREF="http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_reg_win2k.shtml" target="_new">tweaks</A> or somehow find what those settings are in win2k and compare it to winxp.

- What do you want to feel today?

Is you ISP also your web space provider? If it is one of those 10mb free with your isp account, they often lower the bandwidth priority to those subwebs. Causing huge latencyeven when your traceroute comes back fine. If you change to a different web service provider or host it yourself, you shouldn't have those problems.

there are absolutely no absolutes

I implemented the PPPoE Windows 2000/XP registry tweak, and everything's still the same.

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Hey, it's cool, man. Thanks for lookin out! Also, thanks for the heads up of the newer version of WS_FTP!

It's not that much of a lag, but it's enough where it sort of bugs me. I'll deal with it.

Later...
Bryan

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I'll do my best.

C-ya!

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