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it'd definately be freakin DSL.. lol

I never said anything about a company, and I'm sure as heck not going to pay 100 bucks for freaking DSL. I pay 55 right now for Cable and DSL would be 45 in my area, and it's looking better than Cable. I'm just looking for suggestions on what I should do.

I've had @home for about 2years. I was very happy with it untill about 7months ago. I've talked to just about every technician possible in their section located around my area. About 7months ago I started getting various slow downs during peak times, or other times, and horrible ping times randomly ...

They're going to continue with internet service, but it's supposed to be really ****ty for those still on it... which it is.

Plow, I suggest you give @home till the end of October, and if it doesn't get better by then go to DSL, because @home will just screw you over the rest of the time you have service with them... trust me.

Yeah I think I'll give cable one more week to get their act together then I'm going to be ordering SWBell DSL for $50 a month 1.5/384.... I think DSL is just as good or better than cable in my area.

You guys should really check out the Cable/DSL Forum here on speedguide.net We're having huge discussions on what's going on with the Cable services. Check it out guys, you might find it useful, and find that DSL is a better way to go for the people with @home getting screwed over.

@home went ...

I just talked with @home for like the 10,000th time, bleh. They say that they were never affected by the NIMDA virus in my area, but Code Red did affect them a month ago and it's all fixed. They have no idea what's going on. I asked him about the bankruptcy and he had no idea about that either ...

Funky K, I'm totally behind you. I've been on @home for about a year and about a month and a half ago my cable just totally ****ed over, and my ping is reaching as high as 2000, and some of my trace routes and pinging with ms-dos is so pathetic. When I sent @home some of my results from pinging game ...

Someone help me out, I'm on cable (@home of course) right now, and I'm very frustrated with their service, ping times, and speed right now. It'd utterly ridiculous. Can someone throw me out some pros and cons or add on to this list for me please? Or please suggest what you think and why.

I hear DSL is almost worse because you have an ISP and get disconnected very often. Bah, broadband is gay. GIVE ME MY SHOTGUNNED 56K MODEMS!

I'm no where near a college or anyone that uses @home services that much. I'm wondering if I should go to DSL.

Yeah my cable light does flash a lot even when I'm not messing with the internet at all. Well a month I've waited.. how much longer am I supposed to wait, lolz. I already did download all those patches and same result. Argh, I'm so frustrated with this. I was just in a server playing a game and I ...

Okay well my service has ran great forever, untill about a month ago when my ping in gaming jumps to 300+ all the time. I've had technicians out and they say that my system is fine. I'm networking this modem also, but we've always networked it.. and even when I unhook the modem from the hub and do a ...

I pinged my gateway and I just got


Ping statistics for 24.9.9.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 103ms, Maximum = 198ms, Average = 147ms


And you said it should be under 25ms, so I'm assuming this is bad. What shall ...

to tell you the truth there's not much else you can do, ping doesn't make the player,player makes the ping. my cable was real whacked out for like 3weeks and i was playing with 250ping all the time, when my cable was fixed(for only a week) i have 120 ping and i was raping everyone, no one could ...

AMD Atholon 550 MHZ
Win98 Second Edition
Geforce2 MMX400 64MB
@Home Cable

Anything I could do to improve my ping in my Soldier of Fortune game? I spike a lot, anywhere from 90 - 250. That's not fun. Here are my settings. I've already tweaked out most of my cable and I've tweaked out my graphics ...

I really don't like ZA cause it takes up more sys resources, very annoying.

Changing your o/s makes about a 1ms difference in your ping. That's a ****ing fact. It's your ***** system, and where you're located from the servers, and what kinda connection you have. Tweaks won't really change your ping much unless it's graphics card tweaks, and FPS tweaks. I've been through XP ...

I would switch to DSL but the setup fees are horrible, and I don't feel like going through that again.

Well a few of us (Gilla and I that we know of so far) are having the exact same problems but in different games, but it is not related to the game, nor your pc, nor anything else the cable company tells you. It's them. And lately this might seem to get worse because of the horrible, horrible Nimda ...

Well Gilla, I don't remember to clearly, but I remember my cable was acting a little funny so I went out and bought a Geforce2 MMX400 64MB video card. I customized everything, all my gaming settings(I'm on Soldier of Fortune) and at first everything worked fine, then I start getting these horrible ...