[zumwalt]

Did some more experimenting last night, I kept loosing connection with my cable modem, now normally with cable modem my network shows

Upload avg 500 - 700
Download avg 400 - 600
Ping around 1000

I have a toshiba cable modem supplied by road runner

Last night, from like 8pm on, ping was hitting the 100k mark and lag was horrible.

My router is a Netgear router, so, I decided what the hey, I unplugged the router, plugged the cable modem straight into my computer.

No change in U/D or Ping, stayed with loosing synch and ping's in the 100k mark.

Then I thought, why not dial up to forget around the cable modem for now.

So I disconnected my network cable, plugged in the good old phone line, and dialed up, to my supprise, when I was actually connected, my restults where:

Upload avg 500 - 800
Download avg 600 - 900
Ping avg 1000

Notice a trend, cable and modem use the same formula, as I suspected, which WILL cause an ASYNCH failure do to the modem is definately slower on packet related transfers than high speed.

(I only know this because I do programming and deal with client server connections all the time)

And, to top things off, I had the same de-synch going on, lots of packet loss, and disconnects leading to avg ping coming back in the 100k mark.

This further points to my earlier supiscions that the connection has nothing to do with the type of router or the type of cable modem or the speed of the connection.

Escpecially since the problem is echoed in 3 different types of connections to the same server, one being a dial-up 56k modem, a toshiba cable modem connected to a netgear router, then the computer plugged straight into the cable modem no router, and all 3 have the exact same results on U/D and Ping.