download question

[CAP1]

  ok...i think most of you know i still run dsl. i tried opening the game tonight, in order to see if i loaded some offline missions properly.....it wouldn't open. said something about failing with a -9, and something else.

 anyway, i didn't sweat it, as i needed to update anyway.....it's downloading right now. problem is i thought the last full download was faster. it's showing only 121 kb/second on the download.

 this seems awfully slow, even for dsl. any of you know what it should be? or how i can differentiate between my router, ethernet card, or modem being the cause of a slow down? or possibly verizon's slowed my connection speed down?

 i know about the internet speed tests, but how do i tell what the bottleneck is?

[guncrasher]

cap i have the same question.  put it in the hardware and software forum.  more people look there.  I'll try to do it and post some pics too.

semp

[clerick]

cap i have the same question.  put it in the hardware and software forum.  more people look there.  I'll try to do it and post some pics too.

semp

Easiest thing to do is run a ping plot to see of there are any network issues.

If not, I'd bypass the router entirely and see if that perks things up. 

If that doesn't help there are a bunch of things that could be causing it...

If that helps then put the router back in and try again just to make sure it wasn't an anomaly. If it gets slow again, I'd start removing computers, game consoles, etc. from the network to see if maybe one of them was the bandwidth hog. I have seen one malware infected computer bring a home network to its knees. Also, your router can tell you what's connected to it, make sure they are all yours and not some thieving neighbor. 

[AHTbolt]

Unplug your modem and router for ten seconds, then run a ping test check your firewall. This will let you know if its your connection this usually works for me. Good luck.

[CAP1]

Easiest thing to do is run a ping plot to see of there are any network issues.

If not, I'd bypass the router entirely and see if that perks things up. 

If that doesn't help there are a bunch of things that could be causing it...

If that helps then put the router back in and try again just to make sure it wasn't an anomaly. If it gets slow again, I'd start removing computers, game consoles, etc. from the network to see if maybe one of them was the bandwidth hog. I have seen one malware infected computer bring a home network to its knees. Also, your router can tell you what's connected to it, make sure they are all yours and not some thieving neighbor. 

 thanks!

 i should've thought of bypassing the router. i'll try that tonight. i don't have a wireless router, but rather a 4 or so year old lynksys wired router. there are 2 computers in the same room hooked to it, and a cable running to the office, which mom uses her laptop on when she's up here. she wasn't here when this happened.
 thinking of maleware, i haven't scanned the 2nd puter in forever.......

[CAP1]

also........how do you run a ping check? i've only ever done the "speed tests" that verizon or a couple other companies offer?

[Dichotomy]

http://download.cnet.com/Ping-Plotter-Freeware/3000-2085_4-10021963.html

download
install

I forget the ip address of HTC servers

see the results.  If you have a bad hop somewhere it will show up

[Shuffler]

Do the ping Plot it will pretty much show you the culprit. Do it at different times of the day also.

[guncrasher]

Easiest thing to do is run a ping plot to see of there are any network issues.

If not, I'd bypass the router entirely and see if that perks things up. 

If that doesn't help there are a bunch of things that could be causing it...

If that helps then put the router back in and try again just to make sure it wasn't an anomaly. If it gets slow again, I'd start removing computers, game consoles, etc. from the network to see if maybe one of them was the bandwidth hog. I have seen one malware infected computer bring a home network to its knees. Also, your router can tell you what's connected to it, make sure they are all yours and not some thieving neighbor. 

actually what i was referring to is for example my cable internet says i can d/l at 28mbps using speedtest.net.  but whenever I actually d/l anything from different sites, the best I get is 1.2.

semp

[CAP1]

actually what i was referring to is for example my cable internet says i can d/l at 28mbps using speedtest.net.  but whenever I actually d/l anything from different sites, the best I get is 1.2.

semp

 different numbers for me, seeing as dsl is slower....but i've noticed that too.

[gyrene81]

cap the main ah download link is slow anyway...i just tried it from my office and it was barely doing 244kbps, the "alternate link" is nearly 400kbps and my office network has a 1000x bigger pipe than your dsl. try the alternate download link, it's usually faster.

[CAP1]

cap the main ah download link is slow anyway...i just tried it from my office and it was barely doing 244kbps, the "alternate link" is nearly 400kbps and my office network has a 1000x bigger pipe than your dsl. try the alternate download link, it's usually faster.

 i would've never thought of that. thanks!!!

 i wanna get into the offline missions, then back into the arenas. i need to give some of those ava guys an easy target again. 

[AAJagerX]

If you know the IP address of your destination, you can also run a traceroute to see if any hops are timing out or showing high latency.  To do this, go to- (Start>type "cmd" in the search box>open the cmd window>at the prompt, type "tracert(space)(IP address of your destination).  Then hit enter.  It'll show hops and ping times to your destination.  

Mine looks like this when typed to ping the LW server:

C:\users\Joe>tracert 206.16.60.41

That'll show ya if there's an issue down the line with ping times.  You don't want any *'s, timed out hops, or long ping times.  This isn't a bandwidth troubleshooting tool, but it does provide some valuable info.

[CAP1]

If you know the IP address of your destination, you can also run a traceroute to see if any hops are timing out or showing high latency.  To do this, go to- (Start>type "cmd" in the search box>open the cmd window>at the prompt, type "tracert(space)(IP address of your destination).  Then hit enter.  It'll show hops and ping times to your destination.  

Mine looks like this when typed to ping the LW server:

C:\users\Joe>tracert 206.16.60.41

That'll show ya if there's an issue down the line with ping times.  You don't want any *'s, timed out hops, or long ping times.  This isn't a bandwidth troubleshooting tool, but it does provide some valuable info.

ok...gonna ask you guys some more now.....'cause i'm stupid when it comes to this stuff. 

 first off, is there an easy way to determine the ip addy of a site? such as photobucket? that is one that gives me fits, although i don't seem to remember it having done this a year or so ago. it seems that if i try to upload more than 1 picture at a time, it "stalls" firefox, forcing me to close it, and restart the session.

 second......since you provided the io addy to the late war arenas, i used that addy to try this. here's an image of what it showed me.


what does all that stuff mean now?

 thanks doods!!!!

[gyrene81]

sorry cap but, firefox has been a memory leaking, error prone hog since v2.8x. i quit using it after 3.16 or something like that because it was doing the same thing you're describing about photobucket, randomly on other sites. i have friends and co-workers in the tech world who are still having issues with the latest version. the only web browsers i use are i.e. and opera.

your tracert readout shows each switch/router between you and the i.p. address you entered. the connection to each switch router is tested 3 times and the 3 rows of numbers are the response times for each test. i'm surprised to see a 192.xxx private i.p. address in there. you normally see that at the beginning of a traceroute from having a home network router in place.