Ok hardware will do i guess. As a few people have noticed, my ping recently has been cack. Reet shoddy like all over the place between 60-200ms. (to uk servers). I thought a housemate was always draining bandwidth, but it seems not. The setup is

The cable modem is in my bedroom, there is a length of about 10-15m cat5 upstairs to a 4port router. I then have 30m of cat5 plugged into the router which runs back down to my bedroom. We have a 4port hub plugged into the router and a total of 5 computers plugged in (3 in router and 2 in hub at the moment I think).
However, I tried plugging my PC straight into the modem, and found I had a constant ping of 25ms.
So could the problem be the distance of cable I have connected to the router?
Or is the hub interfering at all? (bearing in mind I'm not connected to the hub)

or anything else? its right pissing me off.

cheers

ok hopefully this clears things up!

hehe might have to !

telewest suck assssss.

well ive replaced the 30m with one more like about 10m and it doesnt seem to have made a difference...

i cant shorten the length between modem and router as it needs to be that long.

im stuck for ideas now.

if any other pc is using the internet then u will loose ping as u have multiple ips requesting packets while will slow it down..

wire lengths should make a difference u would be more likely to loose packets

tbh I doubt the cable length is making all THAT much of a difference. AT work we have computers on longer cables than that without repeaters and they dont have issues. What I would suggest is that its another PC on the network. Have you tried disconnecting everyone else from the main hub and then seeing what your pings are like? Theres some software you can use to connect to your router to monitor traffic through it... its called MRTG and you can get it here:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

It could also be an issue with the router itself, does anyone else have issues, have you tried switching the cabling around on the router to check its not specific ports? I know ross had a similar problem with their router which they eventually replaced and all was working fine after...

Well having played around and changed both the relevant cables, played with all possible settings etc etc...

...its all pretty good now:

Pinging ws10.warservers.com [80.168.35.10] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=117
Reply from 80.168.35.10: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 80.168.35.10:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 30ms, Average = 26ms

Funnily enough it all seemed to sort itself out about the time our connection got upgraded from 750k to 1mb

So Telewest doing the work was hopefully causing the probs.

All well at least its ok now, fingers crossed.

edit: the only problem now is the upload - still 128k. wish they'd up that just to 256k would be nice.