Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
I should have specified, I'm using a Mac with the wireless. I have a piece of shit windows laptop plugged directly into the cable modem. I'm not even sure how to change the channle on a Mac. If I still had windows I prob would have been able to fumble around and either completely destroyed it or inadvertantly fixed it. With this damn thing I can't seem to do either...

Thanks for the advice guys. I will try some of that out in a little bit, it is very random though. Right now everything is loading perfectly fine. Other times I can be standing right next to and it wont work...
Now it sounds more like a lagging internet than a router problem... and wired is far superior to wireless,,,sometimes a stupid phone could interfer with a wireless connection...

I don't know mac but if you open a command prompt in the windows wired machine and type ---vvvv---

ping 72.32.246.221 -l 1460 -t >cdot-ping.txt

You will get a text file in the folder your command prompt is open in C:/Document and Setting/ named cdot-ping.txt that when opened in wordpad looke like this ---vvv---



Pinging 72.32.246.221 with 1460 bytes of data:



Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=72ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=56ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

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Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=223ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=60ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=61ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=71ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=58ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=59ms TTL=47

Reply from 72.32.246.221: bytes=1460 time=57ms TTL=47

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Notice the consistent pings 50 to 60 MS "Milliseconds" if yours is not consistent and like spikes to hundreds or thousands or shows "Timed Out" on some,,,then you got a problem with your ISP and need to straighten things with them...
Skink Reviewed by Skink on . Advice needed from someone who is computer literate. I have cable internet and am using a wireless router. When I plug the internet directly into my comp it is fast as lightning, but when I use the router, which is only about 15 feet away with a wall between it and my comp, the internet runs slower than dial up sometimes. It rarely effects download times though and only seems to give me problems when trying to load a page that isn't in my cookies, or after I clean up my cookies a cache folders. I'm having trouble understanding why it rarely Rating: 5