Severe Choke in online gaming

[Irish_Tom]

Lo all,

I've got a Netgear DG834G v.2 router and I'm on Pipex 1Mb Broadband.
At the moment I'm the only computer on the network and I've got Wireless access turned off.

The netgear router management *thing* gives this info:

ADSL Link..............Downstream.........Upstream
Connection Speed...2272 kbps............288 kbps
Line Attenuation.....33 db..................9 db
Noise Margin..........29 db..................30 db

Hope that makes sense. It seems a bit odd that it's reading 2mb download but Im sure I've only got 1mb. I've just run a bandwidth checker and it's reporting 400kb/s download speed which is crazy.

Anyway thats not the real problem. When playing games I'm getting serious choke in Steam based games it sits at about 3 and spikes up to 15-20

My rates were set to 20k 100 100 and I read on the Steam forums that if you lower updaterate and cmdrate that it should fix the problem. However, it only made things worse the lower I made the rates the more choke I got and at default settings it was sitting at 20 odd and spiking over 30.

Something is very wrong. My ping is fine (around 30-40) does anyone have any bright ideas?

Cheers

Panzer

 

[MNuTz]

you may of been better off putting this in the Networking section!

Just an idea, but if you lower the rates and it gets worse what happens if you increase them??

 

[Irish_Tom]

Hi mate, I have re-posted in network and we're starting to make some headway hehe.
As for increasing the rates, there's no higher than 100 100 20k. If I could push it higher I would considering the trend.

Based on what the lads over in Networks are saying it seems like my whole t'internet is running below standard.

Panzer