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Packet losses due to the lower signal and errors. That is why they
normaly install a cable modem it's own line to the groundblock. 

Julio Garrovillas wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a new user of this high speed Cox@home cable system and have one
> very curios question. When playing internet games, Unreal Tournament in
> particular, I noticed that if I used the cable modem by itself (no
> splitter to TV) which requires an atenuator to cut my signal in half
> (5+) my game play performance is much better than if I had a splitter to
> the TV (without atenuator and TV is off) which should also cut the
> signal by half, right?. SO why is that? The pings I'm getting are the
> same on either setup so I don't understand why I play really well (as
> far as winning all the time by far) on the single feed w/ atenuator
> versus the latter.
> 
> I know it's not just my imagination because I tried both setups a few
> times so can someone please explain and help me understand why? I'd
> truly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Julio

hope you enjoy the wonderful latency spikes with your cable modem.. makes
any kinda serious gaming a joke
"Julio Garrovillas" <garrovij@home.com> wrote in message
news:38584592.D4F15028@home.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new user of this high speed Cox@home cable system and have one
> very curios question. When playing internet games, Unreal Tournament in
> particular, I noticed that if I used the cable modem by itself (no
> splitter to TV) which requires an atenuator to cut my signal in half
> (5+) my game play performance is much better than if I had a splitter to
> the TV (without atenuator and TV is off) which should also cut the
> signal by half, right?. SO why is that? The pings I'm getting are the
> same on either setup so I don't understand why I play really well (as
> far as winning all the time by far) on the single feed w/ atenuator
> versus the latter.
>
> I know it's not just my imagination because I tried both setups a few
> times so can someone please explain and help me understand why? I'd
> truly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Julio

Latency Spikes? What are you smoking? I've been on Shaw@Home for over a year
now and my Quake 2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament ping times are amazing!!!
I average a 50ms ping to any good server I get on........


If your having problems.....call your provider...



Mike Craft <mike@intouchsystems.com> wrote in message
news:GEk64.8288$c94.125565@news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com...
> hope you enjoy the wonderful latency spikes with your cable modem.. makes
> any kinda serious gaming a joke
> "Julio Garrovillas" <garrovij@home.com> wrote in message
> news:38584592.D4F15028@home.com...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a new user of this high speed Cox@home cable system and have one
> > very curios question. When playing internet games, Unreal Tournament in
> > particular, I noticed that if I used the cable modem by itself (no
> > splitter to TV) which requires an atenuator to cut my signal in half
> > (5+) my game play performance is much better than if I had a splitter to
> > the TV (without atenuator and TV is off) which should also cut the
> > signal by half, right?. SO why is that? The pings I'm getting are the
> > same on either setup so I don't understand why I play really well (as
> > far as winning all the time by far) on the single feed w/ atenuator
> > versus the latter.
> >
> > I know it's not just my imagination because I tried both setups a few
> > times so can someone please explain and help me understand why? I'd
> > truly appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Julio
>
>

Dude Love wrote:
> 
> Latency Spikes? What are you smoking? I've been on Shaw@Home for over a year
> now and my Quake 2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament ping times are amazing!!!
> I average a 50ms ping to any good server I get on........

He's not smoking anything.  Here in San Diego the Road Runner system hasn't been
worth a shit for weeks during evenings and weekends.  Look at my data
http://miguelito.org/RR/index.html if you want to see what latency is.

> If your having problems.....call your provider...

Many of us had, over and over.  They either don't care, or don't have the
money/talent to fix it.

--
Mike Marion -  Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare
at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'
                                               -- Linus Torvalds

Then you need to get on the phone with supervisors and managers. I have
RR and have found their tech support to be 110%. Sounds like you have
talked to the wrong person! 

Michael Marion wrote:
> 
> Dude Love wrote:
> >
> > Latency Spikes? What are you smoking? I've been on Shaw@Home for over a year
> > now and my Quake 2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament ping times are amazing!!!
> > I average a 50ms ping to any good server I get on........
> 
> He's not smoking anything.  Here in San Diego the Road Runner system hasn't been
> worth a shit for weeks during evenings and weekends.  Look at my data
> http://miguelito.org/RR/index.html if you want to see what latency is.
> 
> > If your having problems.....call your provider...
> 
> Many of us had, over and over.  They either don't care, or don't have the
> money/talent to fix it.
> 
> --
> Mike Marion -  Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
> When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare
> at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'
>                                                -- Linus Torvalds

Steve wrote:
 
> Then you need to get on the phone with supervisors and managers. I have
> RR and have found their tech support to be 110%. Sounds like you have
> talked to the wrong person!

You have RR in a completely different city with different managers and such...
the ones here have been unresponive to all of our Emails, calls, etc.

Today, I do note that they've got a message on the network status page:

>> Slowness to some sites on the Internet during evening hours. This
>> internal San Diego networking issue which covers all customers is being
>> addressed by our Engineers, who are working on a networking fix. We have
>> isolated the issue and will be making immediate routing changes internally
>> throughout the rest of the day. Customers may notice intermittent changes to
>> the path to different Internet sites this afternoon. 

So at least they've _finally_ admitted that there's an internal routing issue...
and are trying to fix it.

I'm not going to hold my breath though.

--
Mike Marion -  Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
Lisa: "As you know, we've been swimming. And we've developed a taste for it. We
agree that getting our own pool is the way to go. Now before you respond, you
should know that your refusal will result in months and months of..."
Bart, Lisa: "CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad?
CanwehaveapoolDad? CanwehaveapoolDad?"
Homer: "I understand. Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of
chocolate to milk." -- Simpsons