What on earth is going on?

Majik

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I think its more than just pipex (my isp) but my net has been shocking of late.

Between 5-11pm my latency on games like Counter-Strike can spike from 30 up to 60. Even when not spiking during these times the whole experience can seem very "choppy".

Basically are other ISP's using pipex network or BT or what ever experiencing service like this to?

Id like a good ISP for gaming really if anyone can recommend one. Preferably a short contract period so I can get out of it.

I'm starting to question my router settings since I'm fairly new to routers used a usb modem before that.

I don't know what any of this means but have seen a lot of people mention it.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2272 kbps 288 kbps
Line Attenuation 43 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 5 db 22 db

Does any of that seem out of order for a 1MB line? Well I think its 2MB throttled back to 1MB I connect at 2MB but download more at 1MB speeds I think 110k.

Poll Interval is 5 seconds if I increase that will it help? Not updateing as often etc?
 
Majik said:
Basically are other ISP's using pipex network or BT or what ever experiencing service like this to?
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To a point, it could depend on your exchange. Pipex's peering's got increasingly crappy recently though.

Id like a good ISP for gaming really if anyone can recommend one. Preferably a short contract period so I can get out of it.
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An "ISP for gaming" doesn't really exist - any decent ISP will give you (near enough) identical results, and most of them will give you a monthly contract.
Zen, Eclipse, Nildram (also use Pipex's network, so YMMV), IDNet are all decent ISPs.

The biggest issue for you is if you want to download the internet while you're not gaming :p

Noise Margin 5 db 22 db
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Downstream SNR margin is poor. Might be a problem (you certainly are never going to get >2Mbps), but probably isn't.

I think its 2MB throttled back to 1MB
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It's 2Mbps throttled to 1Mbps.
 
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Haha thanks for the reply, no honestly I dont download a lot I just play CS & BF2. Any downloading would be offpeak BUT I dont know how much bandwidth CS & BF2 uses to be able to choose a good bandwidth package.

Another thing that has been bugging me was how I connected to pipex through my router it was different to what pipex FAQ suggested but it worked for me.

Dialup Number Enter 0,38 (zero,38)
Primary DNS 158.43.240.4
Secondary DNS 158.43.240.3
VPI (Virtual Path Identifier) 0
VCI (Virtual Circuit Identifier) 38
Framing VC/MUX
Mode ITU G.dmt
Protocol PPPoA
IP Address Supplied by DHCP server
Host Not Required
Connection [email protected]

I couldn't get the above to connect so I changed it to;

VC Based
VPI 0
VCI 38
PPPoE (over Ethernet)
Auto get DNS from ISP
Internet IP get Dynamically from ISP (but I do have a static)
NAT (Network address translation) enabled

Its bugged me for a while but it worked so I never questioned it. Still a little weird that the FAQ one wouldnt work for me but this one does.
 
Using PPPoE's the only significant difference, and it will impact your latency (but it shouldn't necessarily be spiky).

Any downloading would be offpeak BUT I dont know how much bandwidth CS & BF2 uses to be able to choose a good bandwidth package.
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Nildram's 50GB peak, Zen's 20GB all the time, IDNet's 30GB should all be suitable then.
 
Majik said:
Thanks Tolien. IDnet are they new? I've not heard of them.
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I'll vouch for them, they're excellent
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